[Xastir] NWS Weather Alerts

[Curt, WE7U]

On Wed, 22 May 2013, Dean Groe wrote:

> "If you stick to the APRS-IS servers instead of Firenet you get fewer alerts:  The guy who wrote the software for injecting them there had different priorities/thoughts about which alerts were important.  It's a long story.  So I came along later and independently wrote the same thing, but produce more types of alerts, which I inject into Firenet."
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> Curt, thanks for the clarification.  Yes I remember that story / debate.

I detailed part of it in my homepage:  http://wetnet.net/~we7u


> The Standard rotate pool is fine for me.  It has probably been 7 or 8 years since I last tuned in to firenet.  There was lots of interesting stuff, but more than I need here.  We are already suffering from information overload here in Central Florida.  I only want the severe / warning alerts to bother me, and then I Gate those to stations who are RF only. 
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> I might get a chance to do a CVS update and install tonight.  If so, I am hoping that will fix it for now.
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> One thing that I forgot to mention, the local NWS Office is MLB.  I suppose that there could be a problem with their Internet feed of the alerts.

I'm seeing lots of alerts.  NWS offices tend not to go dark much.

BTW:  It appears that the "firenet.aprs2.net" rotate address has been fixed.  I'm connected to it now and getting the correct Firenet servers.  Alerts are lighting up the map.

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Curt, WE7U.        http://wetnet.net/~we7u
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