[Xastir] Wx Alerts

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:45:25PM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <hank at hanklambert.com> flavor, containing:
> That's a shame. I don't know why someone would have a problem with a weather
> alert. But what's worse is that someone would get harassed for providing a
> service like weather alerts. Can't the alerts be turned off on the clients?

Google "APRS Sea of Blue" for a good example of how much screaming over 
data injected into APRS-IS there has been.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org
> [mailto:xastir-bounces at lists.xastir.org] On Behalf Of Tom Russo
> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 2:17 PM
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] Wx Alerts
> 
> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 10:39:00AM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron
> collision of the <warpedspeed1 at yahoo.com> flavor, containing:
> > Does anyone know the status of Weather Alerts here in the U.S. ?  
> > 
> > We have had a few Tornado warnings here in Central Florida today, but no
> alerts 
> > coming across from APRS-IS.  
> 
> The original wxsvr server that gated WX alerts from NWS to APRS-IS was taken
> down by its maintainer qhite a while ago.  A replacement server was put up
> by 
> Pete Loveall, but he made a decision to gate only alerts that were immediate
> 
> warnings from NWS, unlike the prior server that gated all of them.
> 
> Apparently the owner of the previous system had taken a lot of heat from
> people
> about too many non-APRS alerts being gated, so when Pete stepped in to fill
> in
> the gap, he chose to be much more conservative in what he gated.
> Unfortunately,
> that means that very few NWS alerts really ever show up on APRS in many
> areas 
> --- unless NWS designates the alert as an immediate threat, it doesn't show
> on 
> APRS.  My area is one that went from having a number of WX warnings all the 
> time (high wind, high fire danger, dangerous thunderstorms, winter storms, 
> etc.) to almost none.
> 
> There's really nothing to be done for it other than for someone else to put
> up another wxsvr replacement with a less-conservative gating policy and be 
> willing to endure the flaming from those who object to wx data on APRS.
> 
> -- 
> Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236        http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
 "The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."