[Xastir] Weather alerts are running again

[Curt Mills]

Yep. Should be permanent. They went away while I was recuperating from some
broken bones last summer and I didn't notice. When it was pointed out to me
some months later I couldn't find any feeds, now I have four. I just found
out the feeds go in a round-robin fashion and don't all pull at once so I'm
going to enable all four tonight.

I'm toying with the idea of erecting a similar setup on a geographically
remote VM from the first: Both could feed APRS-IS and Firenet at once.
Redundancy. I haven't asked for permission to hand another server off the
feeds yet but the data I'm pulling is low-bandwidth so chances are good if
I ask nicely.


On Mon, Apr 1, 2019 at 2:58 PM Lynn W Deffenbaugh (Mr) <KJ4ERJ at arrl.net>
wrote:

> 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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