[Xastir] Re: Wind Gusts

[Darryl Gibson]

Curt, WE7U wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Dec 2006, Clay Jackson wrote:
> 
>> if you look at my data going to findu, it's now reporting much more
>> reasonable gust (32MPH so far this evening, the power's out and the
>> storm "center" is still several hours away).
> 
> Ok.  Wind speed as transmitted on APRS is supposed to be:
> "sustained one-minute wind speed (in mph)".  Gust is supposed to be:
> "peak wind speed in the last 5 minutes".  Page 64 of the APRS spec.
> I saw nothing in the addendums to change these.
> 
> Now... Some weather stations don't give us any gust or peak value,
> others give it or the wind speed to us with a different time period.
> 
> What would be the correct thing to do?
> 

You have different start up files for various TNCs, couldn't you do the 
same thing for WX stations?

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Darryl Gibson N2DIY
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