[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 757, Issue 1

Thu Apr 29 16:16:57 PDT 2021

Thanks for the information. Just a shame. So a great program and no way to
have weather radar anymore. For me it was the most favorite thing to see
the storms coming. Again, thanks for the explanation, 73 de kf4kul

Uwf Vis

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> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:47:40 -0400
> From: Udo Visintini <kf4kul at gmail.com>
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> Subject: [Xastir] WX-Radar
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> Hi,
>
> I used for years the RIDGE Radar files created by K1KWD
>
> I know the weather service has changed the layout and the URL
>
> I there anybody who know a new URL, or a way to get those radar overlay
> files, so it can be used by xastir's? mapping system.
>
> Thanks and 73 de kf4kul
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 14:45:59 -0700
> From: "David Flood" <david_flood at msn.com>
> To: "'Xastir - APRS client software discussion'"
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> Subject: Re: [Xastir] WX-Radar
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> Hello Udo,
>
> The NWS stopped producing easily processable/usable data and instead
> switched to complicated data files.  If someone has some ATUs and wants to
> figure out how to parse the data it might be loadable into Xastir.  But
> since the data is changing/updated on a regular basis you'd have to write
> an entirely separate program that fetches the new data on a schedule and
> then "serves" it up to Xastir.
>
> Here's the current data collection:
>
> https://opengeo.ncep.noaa.gov/geoserver/www/index.html
>
> I suppose, if someone had the programming skills and a spare server or two
> they could light up a Weather Server that does the processing but you still
> would then need to figure out how to modify Xastir to work with that
> server.  And as soon as it all was working the NWS would change everything
> once again.
>
> Dave
> KD7MYC
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Xastir On Behalf Of Udo Visintini
> Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 1:48 PM
> To: Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> Subject: [Xastir] WX-Radar
>
> Hi,
>
> I used for years the RIDGE Radar files created by K1KWD
>
> I know the weather service has changed the layout and the URL
>
> I there anybody who know a new URL, or a way to get those radar overlay
> files, so it can be used by xastir's  mapping system.
>
> Thanks and 73 de kf4kul
>
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 15:43:05 -0700
> From: Curt Mills <curt.we7u at gmail.com>
> To: Xastir - APRS client software discussion <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Xastir] WX-Radar
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> Interesting.  Xastir supports WMS, so it's do-able. Might not take a
> tremendous amount of effort either.
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 2:46 PM David Flood <david_flood at msn.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Udo,
> >
> > The NWS stopped producing easily processable/usable data and instead
> switched to complicated data files.  If someone has some ATUs and wants to
> figure out how to parse the data it might be loadable into Xastir.  But
> since the data is changing/updated on a regular basis you'd have to write
> an entirely separate program that fetches the new data on a schedule and
> then "serves" it up to Xastir.
> >
> > Here's the current data collection:
> >
> > https://opengeo.ncep.noaa.gov/geoserver/www/index.html
> >
> > I suppose, if someone had the programming skills and a spare server or
> two they could light up a Weather Server that does the processing but you
> still would then need to figure out how to modify Xastir to work with that
> server.  And as soon as it all was working the NWS would change everything
> once again.
> >
> > Dave
> > KD7MYC
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Xastir On Behalf Of Udo Visintini
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2021 1:48 PM
> > To: Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > Subject: [Xastir] WX-Radar
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I used for years the RIDGE Radar files created by K1KWD
> >
> > I know the weather service has changed the layout and the URL
> >
> > I there anybody who know a new URL, or a way to get those radar overlay
> files, so it can be used by xastir's  mapping system.
> >
> > Thanks and 73 de kf4kul
> >
> >
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