[OZAPRS] New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia

[JandG]

The D710 operator's manual says: When the "Weather alert " is available (in 
USA and Canada) and is activated then this function will check for a 
received NOAA 1050Hz tone.
When the tone is received the weather alert tone will sound.

On the D710 you can select the weather channel by selecting in the menus the 
"Weather Alert"

Not sure what it all means in Oz.


In your system are the weather alerts transmitted via APRS???


Kind regards,
Gerard
VK2JNG


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Geoff" <geoff at gatwards.org>
To: "'Australian APRS Users'" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 3:23 PM
Subject: RE: [OZAPRS] New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia


> Not sure about the tone - if that's something generated internally by the
> D710, then probably, as the protocol is the same as the USA.
>
> Geoff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of JandG
> Sent: Tuesday, 18 November 2008 2:41 PM
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia
>
> Hope it will all work out. Great initiative. How will this work on a D710.
> Will it use a tone of 1050Hz like in the USA?
>
> Looking forward to the outcome.
> Thanks,
> Gerard
> VK2JNG
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Geoff" <geoff at gatwards.org>
> To: "'Australian APRS Users'" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
> Sent: Monday, November 17, 2008 8:34 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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