[Xastir] Weather alerts are running again

Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) KJ4ERJ at arrl.net
Mon Apr 1 14:58:21 PDT 2019


Thank you Curt!  I did notice some alerts recently and was hoping they 
were back and not just temporarily.

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


On 4/1/2019 3:40 PM, Curt Mills wrote:
> I have weather alert feeds again! I have access to four identical feeds
> with three currently enabled and feeding my scripts. I finally managed to
> verify that they are going out by receiving them on my Xastir screen at
> work.Thanks to Gerry Creager and a buddy of his for helping me get raw
> feeds again!
>
> If you have the proper maps loaded into Xastir and have weather alert
> display enabled in the Xastir menus, these alerts will light up warning
> areas on your map automatically.
>
> Note: There are two of us dumping weather alerts out to APRS-IS and/or
> Firenet. We each decided to process different things, and we did entirely
> different development of our programs/scripts between us (no coordination).
> More than likely you'll never notice an absence of _all_ WX alerts, but
> some important ones for you might be missing if either of the wx alert
> processors is down at any given time. Hopefully that won't occur again for
> a long while.
>



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