[OZAPRS] WX Beacons

[Samantha]

What would you suggest for the BOM settings for far north queensland


-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
Behalf Of Geoff
Sent: Saturday, 1 January 2011 6:33 PM
To: 'Australian APRS Users'
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] WX Beacons

It's all about to change anyway in the next couple of months as we are
re-writing the WXSVR itself to use the new format BOM data.... Once I finish
the rebuild of my shack after my move ;-)

The NWS* messages transmitted only serve to 'light up' map displays that
support the shapefiles - they're pretty meaningless to a D700/D7.  You can
safely drop the NWS bit and only include BOM* (or limit to your area such as
BOMSEQ) to display only the plain text message sent with the warning data.

Regards,
Geoff  VK8GG/VK2XJG



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] 
> On Behalf Of Howard Small
> Sent: Saturday, 1 January 2011 2:27 PM
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] WX Beacons
> 
> Gordon
> 
> The site says:
> "We recommended that the following be included in the MSG GROUP in 
> these
> radios:
> 
> "NWS-*,BOM*
> 
> "Setting NWS-* will restrict the display of the ZONE messages to only 
> those of a WARNING level (ADVISE and WATCH level are transmitted with 
> an underscore (NWS_*) which does not match the message filter)
> 
> "Setting BOM* will allow the plain text warning messages to be 
> displayed."
> 
> But when I watch the packets with my TNC I see that all NWS have an
> underscore: warn, advis, cancl, watch. So putting that NWS-* setting 
> stops any from being displayed including the warnings. I guess it must 
> have changed since the info was put up?
> 
> Howard
> 
> On 30/12/2010 18:06, Gordon Taylor wrote:
> > Howard,
> > 	I had a fiddle with mine and got it working ok.
> >
> > I am in the SEQ region so gate SEQ* to RF in UIview.
> >
> > I have NWS-* and BOM* in the message group.
> >
> > By putting NWS-* instead of NWS_* you don't get the NWS stuff just
> the BOM
> > text
> >
> > Each time the SEQ_FLW status is updated from the server I get two
> entries
> > for the BOM text as it won't fit in one entry
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Gordo VK4VP
> 
> 
> 
> 
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