[OZAPRS] New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia

[Ray Wells]

As an afterthought to my previous, take a look here ..
http://www.norman.noaa.gov/1999/04/noaa-weather-radio-transmissions-expand-to-woodward-and-altus/

Ray vk2tv

JandG wrote:
> 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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