[Xastir] radar .geo idea: will it work?

[Curt, WE7U]

On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Dick Repasky wrote:

> Looks like I'm out of luck. All I can find at NOAA is ftp and Unidata LDM.
>
> Poking around at mesonet.tamu.edu turned up mostly missing pages. And,
> wget
> "http://mesonet.tamu.edu/cgi-bin/CONUSradar?SERVICE=WMS&request=GetCapabilities"
> didn't turn up anything that looked close.
>
> Finally, http://www.ogc-services.net/ didn't turn up anything interesting.
>
> Too bad, I also had visions of writing something called APRS Storm Tracker that
> would take a text feed of the data for a bounding box and produce APRS objects
> for plain t-storms, severe t-storms and tornadic signatures.

Don't give up yet.  Talk to Gerry Creager, N5JXS, at Texas A&M.  He
might be able to help find the data feeds you need.  Or create some
from his feeds.

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