Re: [Xastir-dev] Weather Alerts

2017-08-08 Thread Gerry Creager - NOAA Affiliate
CAP tends to be less than specific about the areas covered, with regard to the VTEC-generated "weather wire" alerts. There are methods to get those in, as well. Some of us have been dealing with discrepancies in WEA and CAP for a long time and in the professional arena. On Fri, Aug 4, 2017 at

[Xastir-dev] Weather Alerts

2017-08-06 Thread Dan Srebnick
I've developed a NWS CAP protocol parser to inject local weather events into APRS. In doing so, I spent much time researching the required format of such a message. I found detailed comments in alert.c. I also found a document from WB4APR (http://www.aprs.org/APRS-docs/WX.TXT) that was updated