On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:45:25PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <h...@hanklambert.com> flavor, containing: > That's a shame. I don't know why someone would have a problem with a weather > alert. But what's worse is that someone would get harassed for providing a > service like weather alerts. Can't the alerts be turned off on the clients?
Google "APRS Sea of Blue" for a good example of how much screaming over data injected into APRS-IS there has been. > -----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 Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:39:00AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <warpedspe...@yahoo.com> 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. > > The original wxsvr server that gated WX alerts from NWS to APRS-IS was taken > down by its maintainer qhite a while ago. A replacement server was put up > by > Pete Loveall, but he made a decision to gate only alerts that were immediate > > warnings from NWS, unlike the prior server that gated all of them. > > Apparently the owner of the previous system had taken a lot of heat from > people > about too many non-APRS alerts being gated, so when Pete stepped in to fill > in > the gap, he chose to be much more conservative in what he gated. > Unfortunately, > that means that very few NWS alerts really ever show up on APRS in many > areas > --- unless NWS designates the alert as an immediate threat, it doesn't show > on > APRS. My area is one that went from having a number of WX warnings all the > time (high wind, high fire danger, dangerous thunderstorms, winter storms, > etc.) to almost none. > > There's really nothing to be done for it other than for someone else to put > up another wxsvr replacement with a less-conservative gating policy and be > willing to endure the flaming from those who object to wx data on APRS. > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." > > > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > Xastir@lists.xastir.org > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir -- Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off." _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@lists.xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir