[Xastir] No radar

[Rick Green]

On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, James Jolin wrote:

> Using online UsRadar.geo.  The other geo file did now work either.  Wget is 
> installed.

Actually, I haven't seen any data from USRadar.geo or WMSRadar.geo for 
several weeks, probably over a month.  Just before that, there seemed to 
be a change in the background color, because my screen went black, or 
actually something not quite black, because black was coded in my .geo 
file as transparent.  Then shortly after that, I stopped seeing any radar 
data.  I didn't notice it right away, because we were having a run of 
severely clear weather.  But just now I zoomed out to zoom level 7000, 
showing the entire eastern half of the US, and there's not a single blip, 
which I don't believe for a minute...
   I think the server must be down.  In his last post here, Gerry said 
something about alligators up to his eyeballs...  I wish I was in a 
position to help.  But at this distance, I can only be patient.

-- 
Rick Green, N8BJX

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