[Xastir] OT: SAME to APRS gateway requirements?

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

Were you aware that the NWS alerts are still being (or have been 
restored to) firenet.us?  There is no need to have the same alerts being 
injected by multiple clients/devices.

Although as an educational senior design project, it might be a good 
learning experience.

Also, I wasn't aware that the full information was digitally encoded on 
the weather radio frequencies?  I was under the (possibly mistaken) 
impression that SAME only carried the activation regions, but didn't 
carry all of the zone information that normally appears in the NWS APRS 
packets.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

PS.  http://www.aprs-is.net/WX/Default.aspx is a good place to start.

On 10/17/2013 10:46 AM, Jason KG4WSV wrote:
> hi all,
>
> Sorry for the mostly off topic post, but I'd rather start this
> conversation is this smaller, saner audience. :)
>
> I am the customer for a computer engineering senior design team.  The
> project is to create a SAME (weather radio, Specific Area Message
> Encoding) to APRS gateway.  The goal of the project is to use either a
> modem connected to a receiver the NWR frequency or a digital receiver
> such as the SI4707 ( http://www.sparkfun.com/products/11129 ) to
> receive and decode the SAME messages transmitted by NWS.  This data
> will be presented on a serial port digitally in the form of
> corresponding APRS WX packets (position reports, objects, messages,
> etc).
>
> A requirement for this project is for the results to be open source.
> I have a strong preference for the hardware to be arduino compatible,
> but I haven't yet made that a requirement.
>
> Acceptance testing will be in the form of connecting the device to
> xastir as a TNC, and verifying that the data is represented correctly.
>
> I may be making a mistake here, as I haven't used APRS NWS data all
> that much since Dale's server went offline a few years ago.  Part of
> my motivation for this project is to get some functionality back, if
> possible.  The primary driver is to have APRS display of NWS data in
> the absence of internet connectivity.
>
>
> If you have suggestions, recommendations, or would like to be part of
> the customer team (which is me at the moment), please let me know.
>
> -Jason
> kg4wsv
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