[Xastir] Re: Wind Gusts

[Gerry Creager N5JXS]

Jason Winningham wrote:
> 
> On Dec 16, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
> 
>> I agree, although changing the spec is likely to be difficult.   Thus, 
>> I'm thinking about a back-door approach to create the weather  products.
> 
> 
> Could we do something as simple as a keyword in the status test to  
> indicate it meets NWS/NOAA standards?  Or is the current APRS WX  format 
> inadequate in some way?

What I'd like to see is a weather message that then has, appended to it, 
the new message.

> It could even be as rigorous as having a station vetted in some way,  
> then a (short) public key issued to that station to include in the  
> status text to give the issuing authority a higher level of  confidence 
> to the data.

CWOP's not ready for this yet. There's some planning going into how to 
accomplish a combination of better metadata collection and management, 
as well as maintaining a slightly different QC compendium.  The jury is 
still out on the QC work, as Philip Gladstone's really done a stellar 
job of bringing this together into a system that works well and is 
understandable by folks with little understanding of the statistical 
methods used for this work.

> There's certainly nothing to stop anyone from declaring another  packet 
> format altogether, although it needs to be compatible with the  
> Kenwoods.  |:

hrumph...

> I've also thought that one solution to the 144.39 channel crowding  was 
> to move WX and an appropriate number if digis to another  frequency to 
> create an APRS WX net.

Interesting idea and one I'd support but it's something that would be a 
long-shot.  Getting hams to move the digi resources is likely to be 
problemmatical. I remember the number of crystals I bought to facilitate 
the move to 144.39.

gerry
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