[Xastir] Wx Alerts

[Curt, WE7U]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote:

> I wasn't here then, but I suspect the complaints were targeted at the
> data source, but were in fact the problem of IGate operators that
> configured their IGates to transmit alerts for a much larger area than
> their reasonable RF footprint.

That probably caused the problem that Tom described on RF, but the majority of complaints were from people hooked to APRS-IS that had clients that couldn't filter out all the BLUE objects (WX objects and River Gauge objects).


> I'm trying to figure out a way to support a filtered gating of such
> information for any IGates running APRSISCE/32 and they'll probably be
> based on the NWS office being explicitly specified in the filter
> component(s).

That's how we do it in Xastir.

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