[Xastir] Weather Warnings Comment text

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Wed Dec 19 15:20:17 EST 2012


On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:46:37 -0800 (PST)
"Mike Swiatkowski, AA9VI" <aa9vi at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I just noticed that a Winter Storm Watch has been issued for our
> area.  I'm glad to see Xastir has automatically sent out this object
> via RF and via aprs.fi.  However, the comment text appears to have
> been truncated.  The object was LOTWSW and the comment on the object
> is "Winter Storm Wa" That causes some ambiguity between watch and
> warning.  Is there any way to set it so it at least says "Winter
> Storm Warning"?  Ideally it's say something like "Wint. Storm Warn
> exp 1900 THU" as indicated in the bulletin but, hey, maybe we'll get
> there down the road. Just a suggestion.  thanks. Mike, AA9VI  

Isn't "winter" superfluous? You know perfectly well what season you are
in, so "Storm Warn 1900" is as much information as I can get in 15
characters, so others will need to think about this too.

Liz
VK2XSE
where it's not winter!



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