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

[Ray Wells]

Can somebody provide a crash tutorial on implementing this?

Shapefiles are mentioned; is their use compulsory or can topo maps be 
used? I have a preference for the latter and apart from a single trial 
with shapefiles that left me totally unimpressed, I don't use them.

Maybe there's a dozen dumb questions just begging to be asked.

I find the US based "help" documentation quite confusing and convoluted, 
often with outdated links or information.

Anyone care to comment?

Ray vk2tv

Geoff wrote:
> 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.
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> I have also uploaded the current shapefiles.
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> 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*
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> VK1NPW = STL*
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> Etc etc. . . 
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> Regards,
>
> Geoff  VK2XJG
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>   _____  
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> 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
>
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>
> Folks,
>
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> 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.
>
>  
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> 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.
>
>  
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> 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.
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> Hopefully get the shapefiles uploaded this week and swing the data stream
> over to the live network soon after.
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> Any comments, questions etc welcome.
>
>  
>
> Geoff  VK2XJG
>
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