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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/1/2013 12:59 AM, Roger Elmore
wrote:<br>
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Personally I wouldn't mind some input on what "Private" server the folks here feel an Amateur should use with their passcode to get their weather data to MADIS.
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Roger KJ4AJP
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It doesn't make any difference which ham APRS-IS server you use.
All the APRS-IS servers (there are forty-plus of them all over the
world) exchange data with each other in real time. Anything you
feed into one of them is on all of them within a second or two.
Normally, you make the choice based on which one is physically
nearest to you (and therefore will have the fewest number of
Internet router hops and the fewest chances for lost or dropped
packets).<br>
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"rotate.aprs2.net" and "noam.aprs2.net" are just aliases that
randomly assign you to one of a large number of actual servers when
you log in. "rotate" randomly assigns them from a pool of servers
all over the world (i.e. you could wind up logged into a server in
Australia, Finland, South America, Japan, etc), while "noam" assigns
them only from the North American pool of servers. <br>
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"firenet.us" contains everything that passes over the "normal"
interconnected APRS-IS --PLUS-- a great deal of additional
items that don't normally appear on the standard APRS-IS. This
includes wildfire objects, stream gauges, flood warnings, earthquake
epicenters, etc. <br>
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A major additional feature on firenet that isn't on the "normal"
APRS-IS are the US National Weather Service advisory, watch and
warning bulletins. These can trigger the transparent colored
warning zone "shape file" overlays on UIview maps when the UI-NWS
option in the "File" menu of UIview is activated. <br>
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"Normal" ham position beacons and messages originated on firenet (or
igated to firenet from RF) are passed back to the standard APRS-IS.
However, the added firenet objects are not passed. <br>
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<br>
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High Performance Sound Systems for Soundcard Apps<br>
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Vista & Win7 Install Issues for UI-View and Precision Mapping<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm#VistaWin7">http://wa8lmf.net/aprs/UIview_Notes.htm#VistaWin7</a><br>
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"APRS 101" Explanation of APRS Path Selection & Digipeating <br>
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