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I don't recall the details now, but when the idea of weather warnings
for Australia was first suggested, Geoff Gatward (vk2xjg) negotiated
with someone in the US. One requirement was, as I recall, that we
didn't duplicate any US zone/county names. Accordingly the state of
Western Australia (WA) became WX to avoid conflict with Washington
State.<br>
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If Geoff is across this list he may care to comment/correct me.<br>
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Ray vk2tv<br>
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Bill Diaz wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Guys,
The 24 current watch, warning and advisory messages on the APRS-IS
are from Australia. These include Cyclone warnings, which we do not see
from NWS. The Australian server is using NWS-ADVIS, NWS-WATCH, and NWS-WARN
even though NWS has nothing to do with these products. The originating call
sign as seen on APRS-IS not using NWS WFO designators, but designators for
Australian weather offices AFAIK. Furthermore, the zones or counties in
these messages do not correspond to any of the zones or counties in the US.
I can assure you NWS has not stopped putting out alerts.
The current APRS-IS weather server no longer sends Watches and
Advisories, only warnings. A filter setting of t/n on port 14580 will
provide whatever is available on the APRS-IS, Australian or US. There are
currently no US NWS warnings available as far as I can tell. Nothing will
display on your US map.
Bill KC9XG
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From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org">aprssig-bounces@tapr.org</a>
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org">mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org</a>] On Behalf Of Tom Russo
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 15:25
To: TAPR APRS Mailing List
Subject: Re: [aprssig] Weather ?
On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 08:20:59PM -0500, we recorded a
bogon-computron collision of the
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net"><mckeehan@mckeehan.homeip.net></a> flavor, containing:
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<pre wrap="">What's the latest with the weather information via APRS?
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<pre wrap="">I've not been seeing
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<pre wrap="">watches in my local area for a little while now and wonder
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<pre wrap="">if I've missed some
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<pre wrap="">setting change.
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<pre wrap="">I've got my home station receiving a full feed of WX alerts (that is, I
have a "t/n" in my filter string) and am receiving tons of WX
alerts --- but
none in my local area, even when major news organizations
report severe weather
alerts active from NWS. My guess is that some NWS offices
have stopped putting
their alerts out to whatever feeds APRS-IS.
Hope that's wrong and there's another setting I can tweak to
start seeing them
again.
--
Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.swcp.com/~russo/">http://www.swcp.com/~russo/</a>
Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236
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In some cultures what I do would be considered normal.
-- Ineffective daily affirmation
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