[OZAPRS] APRS-WX - BOM to APRS-IS WX Object Creator

[Mark Jessop]

That code looks similar to something I wrote a few years back:
https://gist.github.com/darksidelemm/e1e2670a265ef18cbcf847d11e66864e

Mine uses the JSON feed, which is fairly easy to parse (with only a little
bit of oddness), and will probably break under Python 3 also. Looks like it
should be fairly simple to make it compatible with a few
strategically placed .encode('ascii') statements however...

73
Mark VK5QI

On Sat, Nov 23, 2019 at 12:16 AM Marcus B <mrmabs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> Currently sitting in Canberra away from home for a couple of months, I've
> started to go through some of my old code, and I found this program I built
> to send BOM weather data to the APRS network while visiting VK2DGJ back in
> around 2002. The code is pretty simple, it grabbed the text weather data
> from the BOM, filtered it and generated an aprs-is packet. It looks like
> from the state of the code that I may have packaged this up in the past
> (callsign commented out), so it may exist elsewhere? Maybe even on this
> list or a previous incarnation?
>
> I seem to remember that this was before many objects like this were
> routinely posted to the network like there is now.
>
> I know there are many other ways of doing this job currently in existence,
> so this code is only really there for prosperity, but if there is a need to
> make this work in the modern world give it a go, or I can look into it. It
> would be run from a cron job at a regular interval.
>
> Here's the github link: https://github.com/mrmabs/aprs-wx
>
> 73,
> VK3TST / VK5WTF
>
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