Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts update

2012-06-21 Thread Apostolos Kefalas
Στις Thursday 21 of June 2012, ο/η Arnaud έγραψε: > Hello, Hello Arnaud, > > can you give me the server adress to connect and observe your packet. I could give you the address but you won't see anything since there are no alerts at this time, also the application is running only when there are

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts update

2012-06-21 Thread Arnaud
Hello, can you give me the server adress to connect and observe your packet. If you post a packet with 1 hour dead line and you need to post a special packet to cancel the fisrt one and then you can post a new one. This mecanisme appear like an update. In my tests for France we think for a bad lin

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-02-14 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Curt, WE7U wrote: Gerry probably needs to tell us how to retrieve and reduce the data to what we need, then we can code up a script or program to send APRS representations of it and then run that from multiple sites for redundancy, feeding into Firenet or another server Ge

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-20 Thread Dana Borgman
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 08:48 -0800, David Flood wrote: > >From a discussion thread I sorta participated in when the new server was > announced, it is just taking the public RSS feed from the NOAA website and > massaging it. > > (yes, I know I'm really late in joining this discussion but today is th

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-20 Thread David Flood
>From a discussion thread I sorta participated in when the new server was announced, it is just taking the public RSS feed from the NOAA website and massaging it. (yes, I know I'm really late in joining this discussion but today is the first day I've had an ATU in a week) Dave KD7MYC -Origin

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-18 Thread Chip G.
Excellent topic. Here are my thoughts on it. I like the idea of the weather alerts coming through. But we seriously must lean on local igates to limit what and how things are gated to RF. On my computer I'm happy to see it all (it'll be self-limited by what map I have open). But when I'm mobil

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-18 Thread Hank Lambert
[mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Curt, WE7U Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 7:56 PM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Javier Henderson wrote: >> Which is why we need redundancy. Particularly for something like this

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-18 Thread John Ronan
Comments below On 18 Jan 2011, at 07:00, James Ewen wrote: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: >> On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Javier Henderson wrote: >> Which is why we need redundancy. Particularly for something like this where lives or property are potentially at stake. >>

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread James Ewen
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 5:56 PM, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Javier Henderson wrote: > >>> Which is why we need redundancy.  Particularly for something like this >>> where lives or property are potentially at stake. >> >> Where do I read more about this? I have a number of servers at

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: Besides, I have to leave some reason(s) for the existence of other APRS client software, don't I? s/joking/playing with fire/u hi hi -- Curt, WE7U. APRS: Where it's at!

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
ir.org [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:02 PM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts Just for my complete understanding, what is CW8048? I though the NWS office codes were 3 charact

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Brian Webster
: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:02 PM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts Just for my complete understanding, what is CW8048? I though the NWS office codes were 3 characters and that a b/XXX* filter would pick up what I need (for instance b/MLB* for my local

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
Here's my internal diagnostics along with the raw packet from aprs.fi: MSOFFW>APRS,qAO,AE5PL-WX:;MSOFFWKYA*180300z4823.10NF11533.90Ww FLASH_FLOOD }j0INHJNPTRNNH{HKYAA WinMain:2011-01-18T03:04:09.567 MSOFFW->MSOFFWKYA MultiLine( FLASH_FLOOD }j0INHJNPTRNNH{HKYAA) WinMain:2011-01-18T03:04:09.567

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:10:13PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > It just expired at 03:00 zulu and disappeared from my screen as well. > However, you can still see it at aprs.fi > http://aprs.fi/?call=a%2FMSOFFWKYA but it doesn't show the lines...

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Curt, WE7U wrote: I see the image, but where in the country is it? MS? I assume that's an active alert 'cuz I didn't find it in the two files I sent you. Since I'm using a range filter, turn off the OSM maps and zooming out didn't find it. Never mind. I see that Tom

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
It just expired at 03:00 zulu and disappeared from my screen as well. However, you can still see it at aprs.fi http://aprs.fi/?call=a%2FMSOFFWKYA but it doesn't show the lines... Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author... Curt, WE7U wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: I don't kno

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: I don't know if this will come through, but is this what the MSOFFWKYA flood warning should look like? I see the image, but where in the country is it? MS? I assume that's an active alert 'cuz I didn't find it in the two files I sent you.

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:46:48PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > I don't know if this will come through, but is this what the MSOFFWKYA > flood warning should look like? > > http://tinyurl.com/MSOFFWKYQ Looks like you might have a sign error in deco

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Alex Carver
Oops, spoke too soon, the link worked. Must have been a delay with tinyurl.com ___ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: > I don't know if this will come > through, but is this what the MSOFFWKYA > flood warning should look like? > > http://tinyurl.com/MSOFFWKYQ The link didn't work either. ___ Xastir mailing

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
I don't know if this will come through, but is this what the MSOFFWKYA flood warning should look like? http://tinyurl.com/MSOFFWKYQ Curt, WE7U wrote: It sounds like yourself, Gerry, Alex, and I are all interested in doing something about this. Perhaps Tom and Lynn as well. We happen to have

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
I don't know if this will come through, but is this what the MSOFFWKYA flood warning should look like? Curt, WE7U wrote: It sounds like yourself, Gerry, Alex, and I are all interested in doing something about this. Perhaps Tom and Lynn as well. We happen to have flood alerts happening in m

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Jason KG4WSV
Would there be any redundancy? If, maybe the same code ran multiple places, the normal APRS-IS duplicate suppression could kill off duplicates, but a fault would result in the data still flowing? I can certainly run it on third, if that makes sense. I've also been kicking around a microcontrolle

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Javier Henderson wrote: Which is why we need redundancy. Particularly for something like this where lives or property are potentially at stake. Where do I read more about this? I have a number of servers at well connected datacenters with reliable power, that I use to r

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Javier Henderson
On Jan 17, 2011, at 5:01 PM, "Curt, WE7U" wrote: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Dean wrote: > >> I may have had the day off today, but >> Murphy and his laws did not!! >> >> >> So, it is probably working fine... When everything else works. > > Which is why we need redundancy. Particularly for some

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: > Just for my complete understanding, > what is CW8048?  I though the NWS office codes were 3 > characters and that a b/XXX* filter would pick up what I > need (for instance b/MLB* for my local (Melbourne, FL) > weather service office? Citizen

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: PS. Realizing that we're getting pretty deep into an off-xastir-topic discussion and begging the indulgence of the list. It's all relevant. No worries. We allow such here. -- Curt, WE7U.

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)
Just for my complete understanding, what is CW8048? I though the NWS office codes were 3 characters and that a b/XXX* filter would pick up what I need (for instance b/MLB* for my local (Melbourne, FL) weather service office? Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Dean wrote: I may have had the day off today, but Murphy and his laws did not!! So, it is probably working fine... When everything else works. Which is why we need redundancy. Particularly for something like this where lives or property are potentially at stake. Thank

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: > I wasn't here then, but I suspect the > complaints were targeted at the > data source, but were in fact the problem of IGate > operators that > configured their IGates to transmit alerts for a much > larger area than > their reasonable RF foot

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Dean
OK, I have corresponded with the "authority". According to Pete Loveall, the server that issues the Wx Alerts is working fine. He found the Tornado Warnings for this area in the logs. There were two warnings. It appears that there was a problem with one of the warnings, so it would not

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Guy Story KC5GOI
I am still using aprsD on my igate and am able to specify specific alerts for my CWA from the feed to go out RF. For example CW8048. I only send out the ones for my county, not adjacent ones. The DFW area frequency is too busy as it is. I have stuck with aprsD for various reasons. It is not a

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 01:30:43PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: > > > Please include the Multiline Object information documented in > > http://www.aprs-is.net/WX/MultilineProtocol.aspx > > The fir

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 01:27:11PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > > > I'm trying to figure out a way to support a filtered gating of such > > information for any IGates running APRSISCE/32 and they'll probably be > > based on the NWS office being expl

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: Gerry Creager wrote: As time permits over the next 2 weeks, I'll see about getting a weather alert process up and injected into the stream. If I can't get it going by 1 FEB, though, I'm going to be head-down working on a new project for the

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: I wasn't here then, but I suspect the complaints were targeted at the data source, but were in fact the problem of IGate operators that configured their IGates to transmit alerts for a much larger area than their reasonable RF footprint. That

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr)
.org www.hanklambert.com PGP Key: 0x96D33D71 -Original Message- From: xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Tom Russo Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 2:17 PM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts On M

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr)
Gerry Creager wrote: As time permits over the next 2 weeks, I'll see about getting a weather alert process up and injected into the stream. If I can't get it going by 1 FEB, though, I'm going to be head-down working on a new project for the next 6 months. I assume you're talking about the Fir

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Dean
-- Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:16:37 -0700 From: Tom Russo To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts Message-ID: <20110117191637.ga15...@bogodyn.org> Content-Type: text

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Gerry Creager
As time permits over the next 2 weeks, I'll see about getting a weather alert process up and injected into the stream. If I can't get it going by 1 FEB, though, I'm going to be head-down working on a new project for the next 6 months. 73 gerry Dean wrote: Does anyone know the status of Weathe

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 12:04:08PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > --- On Mon, 1/17/11, Tom Russo wrote: > > > > > Google "APRS Sea of Blue" for a good example of > > how much screaming over > > > > data injected into APRS-IS there has been. > > > > >

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Tom Russo wrote: It'd be cool if someone would put up a wxsvr equivalent with the "liberal" gating policy, and gate to firenet... I miss those wx alerts. Agreed. Me too. We used to get a lot of them around western WA area also, and I found them immensely useful. I don

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Mon, 1/17/11, Tom Russo wrote: > > > Google "APRS Sea of Blue" for a good example of > how much screaming over > > > data injected into APRS-IS there has been. > > > > Hmmm.  I was at the receiving end of that > one...  It resulted in the creation of Firenet, where > we _encourage_ injecti

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:58:52AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Tom Russo wrote: > > > Google "APRS Sea of Blue" for a good example of how much screaming over > > data injected into APRS-IS there has been. > > Hmmm. I was at t

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Tom Russo wrote: Google "APRS Sea of Blue" for a good example of how much screaming over data injected into APRS-IS there has been. Hmmm. I was at the receiving end of that one... It resulted in the creation of Firenet, where we _encourage_ injection of such objects. -

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Russo
boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Tom Russo > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 2:17 PM > To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion > Subject: Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts > > On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:39:00AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the flavor, contain

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Hank Lambert
@hanklambert.com kb4...@winlink.org www.hanklambert.com PGP Key: 0x96D33D71 -Original Message- From: xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org [mailto:xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Tom Russo Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 2:17 PM To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion Subject: Re: [Xasti

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Hank Lambert
I also live in Central Florida (Fern Park) and was wondering the same thing. You just beat me to the punch ;) 73, Hank Lambert KB4MTO/TA5ZC h...@hanklambert.com kb4...@winlink.org www.hanklambert.com PGP Key: 0x96D33D71 -Original Message- From: xastir-boun...@lists.xastir.org [mailto

Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts

2011-01-17 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:39:00AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > Does anyone know the status of Weather Alerts here in the U.S. ? > > We have had a few Tornado warnings here in Central Florida today, but no > alerts > coming across from APRS-IS.

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-10-12 Thread Dale Seaburg
Yes, Curt, that would be fine. I did follow Tom, KM5VY's advice about the need for being hooked up with one of the APRS-IS servers. But, now, I need to wait for severe weather to test. Yes, documenting this would be most advantageous for us relatively new to xastir. I'll wait for you to

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-10-12 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Dale Seaburg wrote: OK, I did look at the wiki, but it's still not clear to me "exactly" what is needed to get Wx Alerts to show up on the map. It's seems that the Wx Alert references are scattered amongst a number of links in the wiki. I have run the script, and done th

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-10-05 Thread Tom Russo
On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 08:37:42PM -0700, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the flavor, containing: > > > --- On Mon, 10/5/09, Dale Seaburg wrote: > > I have run the script, and done the enabling per above > > instructions.? Now, I see where I might have to be > > "connected" to a ser

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-10-05 Thread Alex Carver
--- On Mon, 10/5/09, Dale Seaburg wrote: > I have run the script, and done the enabling per above > instructions.  Now, I see where I might have to be > "connected" to a server???  I am not using xastir as an > iGate.  I din't see the need to be connected in the > wiki for Wx Alerts.  Maybe it w

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-10-05 Thread Dale Seaburg
On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote: Under the interface menu item do I have to supply a specific server to receive Wx alerts from? If you're hooked to the core 1 or core 2 networks, or to Firenet, you should receive them, assuming you do

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-09-30 Thread Keith Kaiser
Thanks Curt. On Sep 30, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote: Under the interface menu item do I have to supply a specific server to receive Wx alerts from? If you're hooked to the core 1 or core 2 networks, or to Firenet, you should receive them, as

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-09-30 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Wed, 30 Sep 2009, Keith Kaiser wrote: Under the interface menu item do I have to supply a specific server to receive Wx alerts from? If you're hooked to the core 1 or core 2 networks, or to Firenet, you should receive them, assuming you don't have your filtering set to filter them out. --

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-09-30 Thread Keith Kaiser
Under the interface menu item do I have to supply a specific server to receive Wx alerts from? On Sep 29, 2009, at 12:46 PM, Eric Christensen wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 13:43, Curt, WE7U wrote: On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: I haven't watched the stream lately but last

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-09-29 Thread Eric Christensen
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 13:43, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: > >> I haven't watched the stream lately but last night you should have >> seen eastern Virginia light up. > > I don't like entire areas to light up!  That means problems for > somebody. > > >> I often

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-09-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Eric Christensen wrote: I haven't watched the stream lately but last night you should have seen eastern Virginia light up. I don't like entire areas to light up! That means problems for somebody. I often wonder about the weather server. There is no redundancy AFAIK in

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-09-29 Thread Eric Christensen
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 13:22, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, wb9...@charter.net wrote: > >> I have not been able to see weather alerts with my installation of >> xastir.  I have the latest cvs version installed. I don't see them >> under the view menu nor the shading on the maps.  Weath

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-09-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Tue, 29 Sep 2009, Curt, WE7U wrote: xastir/scripts/get-NWSdata That should populate the /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties/ directory with shapefiles, then Xastir should start showing you weather alerts as long as you have these checked: Map->Enable Weather Alerts and perhaps: Map->E

Re: [Xastir] Wx alerts

2009-09-29 Thread Curt, WE7U
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, wb9...@charter.net wrote: I have not been able to see weather alerts with my installation of xastir. I have the latest cvs version installed. I don't see them under the view menu nor the shading on the maps. Weather alerts are enabled. Anyone have any ideas? Thanks Hav