[OZAPRS] RE: New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia

[Kim Stevens]

Hi Geoff,
Seems to being working OK out here in Orange. The storm warning stand
down message may need a bit of attention though...  Kim

Kim Stevens
Phone 0427076695
VK2ASY

-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Geoff
Sent: Wednesday, 19 November 2008 10:02 PM
To: 'Australian APRS Users'
Subject: [OZAPRS] RE: New APRS Weather Warning service for Australia

With the number of Severe Thunderstorm Warnings current at the time of
writing for much of NSW and QLD, I have decided to swing the WXSVR-AU
feeds
over to APRS-IS now.

 

I have also uploaded the current shapefiles.

 

There are still some glitches with the system that I'm trying to iron
out,
but I'm hoping that letting it loose to the network will allow more of
the
issues to be identified and corrected sooner than if it were just my
eyes
looking for the problems :-)

 

I am gating SYD* and CTL* to RF in the Sydney area (via VK2RSW-1,
VK2US-1).
Igates in other areas would need to be configured to allow appropriate
data
to RF..

For example in NSW:

VK2HIM-1 = ILL*, SCT*

VK2ZEN-5 = HNT*

VK2TV = MNC*, NTL*, NTR*

VK2ASY-1 = CTL*, CWS*

VK2KAW = RIV*, SWS*

VK1NPW = STL*

 

Etc etc. . . 

 

Regards,

Geoff  VK2XJG

 

  _____  

From: Geoff [mailto:geoff at gatwards.org] 
Sent: Monday, 17 November 2008 8:34 PM
To: 'Australian APRS Users'
Subject: 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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