[Xastir] Wx alerts

[Eric Christensen]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 13:22, Curt, WE7U <archer at eskimo.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, wb9bjq at charter.net wrote:
>
>> I have not been able to see weather alerts with my installation of
>> xastir.  I have the latest cvs version installed. I don't see them
>> under the view menu nor the shading on the maps.  Weather alerts
>> are enabled.  Anyone have any ideas?  Thanks
>
> Have you installed the Shapefiles for this from the NWS?  Run this
> as root:
>
>    xastir/scripts/get-NWSdata
>
> That should populate the /usr/local/share/xastir/Counties/ directory
> with shapefiles, then Xastir should start showing you weather alerts
> as long as you have these checked:
>
>    Map->Enable Weather Alerts
> and perhaps:
>    Map->Enable Area Color Fills
>
> And this unchecked:
>
>    Map->Disable All Maps
>
> However:  I'm seeing ZERO weather alerts show up in View->Weather
> Alerts right now, which seems wrong for this time of year.  Perhaps
> nobody is converting them and sending them out over APRS-IS or
> Firenet.us at present?
>
> --
> Curt, WE7U.                         <http://www.eskimo.com/~archer>

Curt,
I haven't watched the stream lately but last night you should have
seen eastern Virginia light up.

I often wonder about the weather server.  There is no redundancy AFAIK
in that system.

--Eric W4OTN