[Xastir] Weather Warnings Comment text

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Mike Swiatkowski, AA9VI 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.

You're confusing me Mike (easily done these days!).  Xastir doesn't send out such things.  Xastir displays such things though.  I don't know what is creating the object.

We have winter weather alerts lighting up the NW area right now, plus in Xastir's View->Weather Alerts dialog I see "WINTER_WEATHER".

I'm the one generating most of the alerts that go to Firenet and get displayed by Xastir.  I don't remember creating any objects though, just NWS packets that light up counties and zones.  T hose packets get interpreted by the various APRS software packages to light up the areas on the map.

Must be someone else generating the objects.  Are you hooked to APRS-IS or Firenet?

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