[Xastir] Weather Wanings Comment Text

[Mike Swiatkowski, AA9VI]

Curt, the fact that LOTWSW is originating from my station seems correct to me and consistent with what was done in the past with the xastir/data/nws-stations.txt file.  My understanding is Xastir pulls these warnings that you specify in that file and broadcasts an object over RF and the internet when these warnings take effect.  I like the feature and it is quite useful to people in the area.  Do you think the object should not have an originating ham station?
Just want to fix the comment truncation a bit.  One of our VK friends asked if we should mention the season, sort of leave out Winter in the warning.  I think we should keep it only because my area, and more so to the south, we have thunderstorms in the winter from time to time.  So, "Win Stm Warn exp 1200 FRI" or something to that effect is short enough for the mobile rigs to read and informative enough, too.

So, I suggest Winter= WinThunderstorm= TStmTornado= TorFlood= FlodStorm= StmSevere = SevWarning = WarWatch= Wat
kind of like that.
Mike, AA9VI


Message: 5
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:58:01 -0800 (PST)
From: "Curt, WE7U" <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
To: "Curt, WE7U" <Curt.WE7U at gmail.com>
Cc: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
Subject: Re: [Xastir] Weather Warnings Comment text
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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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Curt, WE7U.        http://wetnet.net/~we7u
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