[OZAPRS] New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia

[VK4UN]

Sounds great Geoff, look fwd to see it all in action

Good work

VK4UN

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff" <geoff at gatwards.org>
To: "'Australian APRS Users'" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 7:34 PM
Subject: [OZAPRS] New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia


> Folks,
>
>
>
> As some of you may be aware, we have been working on a project in the
> background to establish an APRS Weather Server to disseminate warning
> information via APRS, in a similar method and format to the NWS messages 
> in
> the USA.
>
>
>
> After several months of on again, off again scripting, testing and
> frustration, we finally have something that is ALMOST ready to be let 
> loose
> on our national APRS network.  The system is known as WXSVR-AU and will
> generate area messages, objects and plain text messages that will be
> targeted at areas affected by current warnings from the Bureau of
> Meteorology.
>
>
>
> Full details of the project are online at  http://wxsvr.aprs.net.au
> <http://wxsvr.aprs.net.au/>
>
> There are still some sections of the site that are as yet incomplete, but
> the information that is there should provide a teaser of what is coming 
> your
> way, and how to prepare to handle the data.  We would appreciate it if 
> IGate
> operators could configure their systems to gate the relevant area messages
> to RF to maximize the benefits of this system.
>
>
>
> The data stream is not yet publically available - however I'm hoping by 
> end
> of November the last few bugs with the protocol implementation will be
> resolved, and at this stage the WXSVR-AU stream will be allowed into the
> wider APRS-IS.
>
> When it is, it will be available via the standard APRS-IS streams.
>
>
>
> Since the protocol used is identical to that used in the USA, the standard
> NWS clients for UI-View and other applications can be used to display this
> data.
>
>
>
>
>
> Hopefully get the shapefiles uploaded this week and swing the data stream
> over to the live network soon after.
>
>
>
> Any comments, questions etc welcome.
>
>
>
> Geoff  VK2XJG
>
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