[Xastir] does CWOP filter get new DW stations?

[Gerry Creager]

Two topics covered here.  Thanks for the opening.

Matt Werner wrote:
> To make the program more...universal...shouldn't it check for more
> than the prefix (or maybe it does)?  CW and DW are both prefixes that
> are also used by foreign countries and could be (or maybe already are)
> on APRS.
> 
> At a minimum a CW station should be required to be wx and the last
> four characters should be numeric I would think.

Correct.  I'd also recommend that we look explicitly for APnnn, ARnnn, 
ASnnn and that we consider making this a user-configurable area that 
gets updated periodically by developers or maintainers to be "the 
default list"

*TOPIC 2*
Please consider connecting to cwop.tamu.eduport 30001 for gathering your 
CWOP data.  That provides a full (nope, no filters) feed for all CWOP 
data including APRS-Wx (ham:  not CW/DW) stations.

There are 3 CWOP-dedicated servers.  These are for the CW/DW stations. 
   Hams should continue to use the APRS-IS servers _unless_ you don't 
want your data pointed to RF.

Questions will be entertained.  We're trying to get CWOP covered with 
its own servers to improve CWOP *and* APRS performance.

gerry

> 73 - Matt
> KB0KQA
> 
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:32:22AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <kg4wsv at gmail.com> flavor, containing:
>>
>>> According to http://www.wxqa.com/news.html :
>>  >
>>  > "Feb 24, 2008 - We have started issuing CWOP IDs that start with DW
>>  > followed by 4 numbers. We have run through 10,000 IDs that start with
>>  > CW, so we have changed to DW and you can see the list of DW stations
>>  > that have sent packets."
>>  >
>>  >
>>  > Does the xastir CWOP display filter on packet type, or does it look at
>>  > the callsign?
>>  >
>>  > Yeah, I could eventually figure this out on my own, but my xastir box
>>  > is at home, and besides that I'm lazy.
>>
>>  >From db.c:
>>
>>             // Check whether it is a citizen's weather station
>>             if (strncasecmp(p_station->call_sign,"CW",2) == 0) {
>>                 return(Select_.weather_stations && Select_.CWOP_wx_stations);
>>             }
>>
>>  So no, it won't recognized DW's.  Yet.
>>
>>  --
>>  Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>>  Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
>>  "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is
>>   one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh,
>>   oooh, the sky is the limit!"  --- The Tick
>>
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