[Xastir] Radar / Weather Warnings

[David Flood]

I'm not at home right now so don't have access to my archives but the bottom line is that unless it is an Immediate warning issued by NOAA, it won't be gated to APRS-IS.  The old weather server died, permanently, and the new one (run by someone else) has very strict limitations on what data it sends out.  Any long term watches/warnings will not be sent out since "those that control the server and the data" believe that commercial radio/TV and other methods are better ways of sending out these things.

So...if you live where there are Immediate warnings, good for you.  If you live where there are long term ones (like Western Washington), APRS is now worthless for this sorta thing.

I'll find and forward the excellent summary of the bad news written by the new server owner the next time I can get to my mail archive or when I can find the relevant email in either the Xastir or NWAPRS archives.

Dave
KD7MYC


-----Original Message-----

>On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, Jeffrey M. Swiger wrote:
>
>> 	I'd be happy with anything right now, I thought some of the newer stuff was WX-maps the way there named.
>> We had some Big Storms just Recently and could have used the information here.