To get the lightning working again I had to change firenet to:
Firenet.aprs2.net: t/n -s/w e/WE7U-WX/AE5PL-WX p/KJ4ERJ/WG3K
So I'm getting things working better and better...
-Original Message-
From: David Flood [mailto:davi...@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 20:03
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Ah Ha...a little progress..
Here's the filters I was using:
Rotate.aprs2.net: m/500 -b/WINLINK
Firenet.aprs2.net: -b/WINLINK -s/w m/500 f/K4CDN-5/500 f/K4IHD/500
I got tired of over 5000 stations/objects, etc so on a lark I changed things
to:
Rotate.aprs2.net: m/500 -b/WINLINK
Thanks Lynn,
That explains the Lighting Stuff...which being so transient (and somewhat rare
around Puget Sound) explains why I haven't seen it before. And that also
explains why they aren't Wx Alerts...
But after several hours of running the View/Wx Alerts list is still empty but
there are
I inject two types of lightning objects into firenet.us from KJ4ERJ-LS.
There are SZ-* objects that light up grid squares and are located at the
centroid of the strikes over the past 10 minutes. The comment should
contain the count of strikes in that gridsquare. And there are LS-*
objects
I wasn't seeing any of the expected Wx Alerts in Xastir related to the
hurricane so I un-filtered my Firenet feed and just used the "f" filter with
a couple of South Carolina stations entered so I'm not pulling the entire
feed for world-wide...
Now I'm seeing county boundaries and irregular