On Wed, 22 May 2013, Dean Groe wrote:
"If you stick to the APRS-IS servers instead of Firenet you get fewer alerts: The
guy who wrote the software for injecting them there had different priorities/thoughts
about which alerts were important. It's a long story. So I came along later and
independently wrote the same thing, but produce more types of alerts, which I inject into
Firenet."
Curt, thanks for the clarification. Yes I remember that story / debate.
I detailed part of it in my homepage: http://wetnet.net/~we7u
The Standard rotate pool is fine for me. It has probably been 7 or 8 years since I last tuned in to firenet. There was lots of interesting stuff, but more than I need here. We are already suffering from information overload here in Central Florida. I only want the severe / warning alerts to bother me, and then I Gate those to stations who are RF only.
I might get a chance to do a CVS update and install tonight. If so, I am
hoping that will fix it for now.
One thing that I forgot to mention, the local NWS Office is MLB. I suppose
that there could be a problem with their Internet feed of the alerts.
I'm seeing lots of alerts. NWS offices tend not to go dark much.
BTW: It appears that the "firenet.aprs2.net" rotate address has been fixed.
I'm connected to it now and getting the correct Firenet servers. Alerts are lighting up
the map.
--
Curt, WE7U. http://wetnet.net/~we7u
APRS Wiki: http://info.aprs.net/
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