[Xastir] More on radar problem

[James Jolin]

Alex Carver wrote:
> I haven't had a problem using radar directly from NWS.  I generate GEO files for the RIDGE image for specific areas.  It won't give you all of CONUS unless you pull in every RIDGE file but it works for zoomed areas.  NWS has a page about it here:
>
> http://www.srh.noaa.gov/jetstream/doppler/ridge_download.htm
>
> They also have the following GIS page:
>
> http://radar.weather.gov/GIS.html
>
> Which contains a link to a location where you can download the regional CONUS GIFs.  When you go to the National/Regional Mosaic section and get the file list of GIFs, look for the named files as mentioned (e.g. southeast, southwest, etc.) which will give you one of the eight regional mosaics.
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> Once the GEO file is set up, either of these work quite well in Xastir.  I use the RIDGE when I'm zoomed in and the regional mosaics when I'm zoomed out.
>
> --- On Sun, 12/6/09, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Xastir] More on radar problem
>> To: "Xastir - APRS client software discussion" <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
>> Date: Sunday, December 6, 2009, 8:38 PM
>> On Sun, Dec 06, 2009 at 07:35:18PM
>> -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <jjolin at itol.com>
>> flavor, containing:
>>     
>>> Gents,
>>> I tried manually going to Tamu web site and trying the
>>>       
>> various urls 
>>     
>>> listed in the various geo files...all I ever get is
>>>       
>> "object not found."  
>>     
>>> What is everyone using for radar images these days?
>>>
>>>       
>> I've given up on them.  The USRadar no longer works,
>> and WMSRadar has been
>> returning an error HTML page instead of an image for
>> months.  Oddly, this is
>> converted to an image by imagemagick (using html2ps), which
>> leads
>> to a blob of random junk in one corner of the display on my
>> systems.  It took
>> me a while to trace the source of that junk down to
>> WMSRadar.
>>
>> I have no idea if there are any working radar image servers
>> left anywhere
>> that can be used by cobbling together a .geo file. 
>> I'd love to hear that there
>> is.
>>
>> -- 
>> Tom Russo   
>> KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux 
>>         http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
>> Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 
>>     
Alex,
How did you set up the geo file?  Did you take an existing file and 
change the url or did you start from scratch?  I know next to nothing 
about geo files.
Jim
WA9ARB