[Xastir] Is it me or is there a problem with Weather Alert...

[Richard, N6NKO]

I believe that the server was called "wxsvr" and I thought that there 
was an icon making known it existence in the Gulf of Mexico. I tried 
looking for it with no luck.

73 from 807,

Richard, N6NKO


Bennett, Joe wrote:
> My guess is that the server that forwards the WX info to the APRS-IS is having issues. 
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>> Curt,
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>> All the files are there. I also have turned on the "Map -> Enable 
>> Weather Alerts" button. Plus, when I check for alerts in View-> Weather 
>> Alerts", the list is bare as Ol' Mother Hubbard's Cupboard. I did load 
>> these using the script when I built up this package after converting 
>> BigBox over to Fedora 6. As a matter of fact, the screenshot that I sent 
>> you of BigBox has county warnings displayed and it is the same routine.
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>> This was running the last time that I ran the program a couple of weeks 
>> ago, but not now for some reason. Over on the EMWIN maillist, there are 
>> grumblings that NWS products are not making it to all feeds.
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>> I wonder if they are related somehow.
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>> 73 from 807,
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>> Richard, N6NKO
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>> Curt Mills wrote:
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>>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Richard, N6NKO wrote:
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>>>> I seem to be devoid of county weather alerts coming in off of Level2 APRS
>>>> feeds.
>>>>
>>>> Is it me or the network?
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>>> Did you manually download the Shapefiles from NOAA for this, or run
>>> the script that snags them for you?
>>>
>>> Check in your /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties directory.  There
>>> should be several sets of files there, with at least .dbf/.shp/.shx
>>> files for each map.  Should be 5 or 6 sets.
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