[Xastir] Gating Wx alerts to RF

[Dean Groe]

Apologies to the list for copying the whole digest from earlier in the month, in my last message.  
Too many irons in the fire I guess.  

Also, I noticed last night that I did not have US Radar anymore either.  Map levels did not make a difference.  That is not a big deal for the way that I use that particular PC, but it would be nice to see it working again.

Thanks


Dean  KD4TWJ 

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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: Dean Groe <warpedspeed1 at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [Xastir] Gating Wx alerts to RF
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Well, another stormy day in Central Florida, and more Tornado warnings NOT gated to RF.  
I really need someone to point me to the place in the documentation that I am missing.  I have been through the README* files, INSTALL, etc...  until my eyes are red, the program help screens, and the online forums AGAIN, I still cannot find what part of this that I am missing.  

Since my last post, I did turn on Configure ->Defaults, Allow RF->Inet and Inet->RF traffic.  That seemed reasonable. 
I still have Disable all IGate Traffic enabled in the IGate Options of the AX.25 TNC Interface. I did not see anything in the docs that said I had to change that to gate Wx alerts.  Once again, please correct me if I am wrong.  As mentioned before, we have more than enough I-Gates in the area already, many of them are bi-directional.  

I looked through the APRS IS filter docs to see if there was anything that would allow me to receive everything within my range filter, yet only gate certain calls or objects.  I did not see anything that seemed to fit that criteria.  



I am not sure what caused all of the extraneous question marks to show up in my last message.  While I had questions, I was not THAT serious about them...  :- > 

Thanks


Dean  KD4TWJ 


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Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:58:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Dean Groe <warpedspeed1 at yahoo.com>
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Subject: [Xastir] Gating Wx alerts to RF
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I know that this has been discussed before, but I seem to be missing something.? 

My goal is to gate severe weather alerts to RF.? I have had a nws-stations.txt file setup for a?few weeks?now in the ~/.xastir/data directory. I have restarted Xastir a couple of times since then, if that makes a difference.? 
I have the AWIPS files installed if that matters. 

I have Disable all IGate Traffic enabled in the IGate Options of the AX.25 TNC Interface.? I am not interesting in functioning as a general purpose IGate.? I am only interesting in gating Wx alerts to RF.? We have plenty of IGates here in the Orlando area already.? 

We had a few Severe Thunderstorm and Tornado Warnings today from the local NWS office (MLB).? I did not gate any of them to RF.? 
I looked in the Weather Alerts window and I see the warnings there.? I had the red alert "boxes" on the screen, until just a few minutes ago, when the warnings expired.? 
Here is the text from one of the warnings listed in the Weather Alerts window; 

MLBTOR BLQAA NWS_WARN 11 @2126z ==>? 11 @2215z YI FL_C061 TORNADO? 

Here is what my nws-stations.txt looks like; 

#Melbourne, FL, USA 
MLB 
# 
KMLB 
# 

I put the KMLB in there because I had noticed that some of the Previous Wx alerts that I found on the web seemed to *maybe* come from KMLB instead of MLB.? I was not sure and I figured that it would not hurt. 


So, is the problem that I have Disable all IGate Traffic enabled ?? 

Will I have to become a "full service" IGate to gate weather alerts to RF?

Thanks


Dean? KD4TWJ 


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