[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 757, Issue 1

Fri Apr 30 17:26:23 PDT 2021

Apologies all, my day job has been making me work for the last 2 years or
so, and I've not offloaded this email to my personal acct, where I MIGHT
have a better chance of following it.

The change to radar dissemination has been in the works for the last 5
years, but there was little consideration of some of the non-traditional
clients (e.g., ham operators, SAR teams, etc) who use the services. Indeed,
a lot of good science and a lot of good coding, and a LOT of money for
servers has gone into the R&D and operational rollout of the new radar
dissemination service. In fact, the development is done literally down the
hall from me (or it was down the hall when we left the building a year ago.

Developers: Can we talk about what you want/need? I might be able to help
with, at least individual radar sites, and might also be able to recreate
the WMS and maybe even a real WCS service that provides the data.

I can set up a Google Meet one evening, or during the day if that's more
reasonable. I will say I'm retiring toward the end of the summer... at that
point the Day Job is no longer an issue unless they figure some way to
recall me to service!

73
Gerry N5JXS

On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 6:17 PM Udo VISINTINI <kf4kul at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > Message: 1
> > Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 16:47:40 -0400
> > From: Udo Visintini <kf4kul at gmail.com>
> > To: Xastir at lists.xastir.org
> > Subject: [Xastir] WX-Radar
> > Message-ID: <4cfbe6eb-dd7c-c9b5-f6cf-448c57fc1737 at gmail.com>
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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
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------
> >
> > 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'"
> >         <xastir at lists.xastir.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Xastir] WX-Radar
> > Message-ID:
> >         <
> >
> MWHPR1701MB180520A2D08FFB3BD62D7E628A419 at MWHPR1701MB1805.namprd17.prod.outlook.com
> > >
> >
> > Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="utf-8"
> >
> > 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
> > Message-ID:
> >         <CAKDpQX=
> > jawJF5bEghoQ41eDfzRsZY7srjn2NArP3Zz8Bmdp9SA at mail.gmail.com>
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"
> >
> > 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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> > Curt, WE7U        http://xastir.org        http://www.sarguydigital.com
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