Hello Curt, Thank you for the note. I added the Firenet.us as mentioned, and have ran it for a few hours now. It did not catch / display the recently issued PDS Tor Watch for Kansas (Tor 523).
Thank you for all your hard work, and quick response. Christian On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:43 AM, Curt, WE7U wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2011, Christian Reynolds wrote: > >> Over the last year or so, I know that the NWS changed from a county warning >> format to a sub-county polygon storm track. Since then, my polygons have >> gone, and I no longer see the shading of the weather alert maps, in terms of >> shading a county for a watch box. > >> I am looking for severe weather polygons, Watches, Warnings, and MesoScale >> Discussions. > > More happened than just that! Dale Huguley wrote the WXSVR and ran it for > several years. It was really sweet and was up most of the time. That's the > system that was generating the APRS strings out of the NWS data, triggering > all the APRS software to color in the areas. > > I want to publicly thank Dale for writing/maintaining it during those years. > It was an amazing service that was truly needed! > > Dale shut down the weather server a while back (2 years ago?). About a year > later, Pete created a new WXSVR, but decided to put out only the most severe > weather alerts to the APRS-IS feeds. > > I came along later and decided that I wanted more alerts yet, so I wrote yet > another WXSVR. I'm putting out the same alerts as Pete plus most of the rest > that Dale used to generate. Mine are going to "Firenet.us" instead of the > APRS-IS. > > So... If you want more weather alerts, hook up to Firenet.us port 14580 > (filtered port) and put in something like: "t/n e/WE7U-WX" as your filter. > That last part is to overcome a bug in the server code where it doesn't > handle lower-case characters in weather alert strings. > > I believe the things we are still missing are the severe weather warning > polygons. Maybe Pete is doing those too, I don't recall right now. > > I planned to get the WE7U-WX server code running in a couple more places but > have been too busy/distracted to get that done. When complete I'll have the > same S/W running at three geographically separate locations. Of course with > Field Day coming up I won't get to it this week either! > > -- > Curt, WE7U. http://www.eskimo.com/~archer > APRS Client Capabilities: > http://www.eskimo.com/~archer/aprs_capabilities.html > _______________________________________________ > Xastir mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and critters, > and is believed to be clean. > -- This message has been scanned for viruses and critters, and is believed to be clean. _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
