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Message: 1 Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:16:37 -0700 From: Tom Russo <[email protected]> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:39:00AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[email protected]> 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." ------------------------------ Yes, I remember when that occurred. Thankfully Pete was making the immediate alerts available. That is primarily what we are concerned with here. Today's Tornado Warnings certainly qualify. You may remember that last Spring I was asking questions on the list regarding how to get Xastir to gate Alerts to RF I was able to get it working, and I was gating Alerts this last summer, and maybe a few this last fall. So apparently something else has happened in the near term. Thanks Dean KD4TWJ _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
