[Xastir] Weather Warnings Comment text

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2012, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> 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?

Huh.  LOTWSW tracks back to your call.  Maybe I need to go look through the Xastir code to see what I forgot.  I didn't think we generated any objects based on the weather alerts.

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