[aprssig] IGATEing CWOP data

[Dave Baxter]

There are also licensing issues.  (Certainly in the UK)

AFIK many CWOP stations are not amateur licensed, so canot be ported to
RF in any way.

73.

Dave G0WBX.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Loveall AE5PL Lists [mailto:hamlists at ametx.com] 
> Sent: 20 August 2009 00:03
> To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] IGATEing CWOP data
> 
> The CWOP network is no longer connected to the APRS-IS 
> network.  To better serve the CWOP-type clientele (connect, 
> send a packet, disconnect), the CWOP "core" servers are not 
> interconnected and therefore a connection to one will not get 
> you the data from the others.  I also believe that those 
> servers have javAPRSFilter disabled to reduce overhead.
> 
> There is a "consolidation" server that accepts feeds from the 
> CWOP network and APRS-IS but I believe it is read-only to 
> APRS-IS.  At one point, there was a system in-place that 
> connected the "consolidation server" with the FireNet server 
> but I do not know that project's status at this time.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Pete Loveall AE5PL
> pete at ae5pl dot net
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Chris Kantarjiev
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 5:47 PM
> > 
> > I'd like to have my igate sent local WX data on RF, 
> including the CWOP 
> > stations (there are a few nearby). Is the right thing to do 
> to connect 
> > to cwop.aprs.net, port 14580, with
> > 
> > # filter t/nw/CDRVLY/25
> > 
> > or is that port "input only"?
> > 
> > If it's input only, is there a port I can connect to to get 
> filtered 
> > observation dta?
> 
> 
>