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<DIV><SPAN class=629150622-02052018><FONT face=Arial>Yes somethings is wrong.
Theres basically a continual stream of jibber comming out of the server now. Its
very delayed with its time stamps.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=629150622-02052018><FONT face=Arial>I first noticed this last
night arounf 1800 local time as the iGate was continually transmitting here with
excessive traffic. I only gate relavant South Australian WX traffic here to RF
and thats been the case for years now.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=629150622-02052018><FONT face=Arial>I am logged into
first.aprs.net.au currently with <FONT face="Times New Roman">e/WXSVR-AU
</FONT></FONT><FONT face=Arial>amongst other things. If I single out the WX feed
then it consists of an almost constant stream off the internet of about 1kb/s on
average. This is everything for the whole country in WX data. I dont
beleive historically it was anything like this. It was basically much
quieter.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=629150622-02052018><FONT face=Arial>The time stamps are slowly
advancing but from what I can see its currently about 8Hrs behind. Last nights
data was irrelavant and incorrect in that in SA we had Current road WX alerts,
Strong wind Warnings and Sheep grazier alerts according to BOMs web site. What
the feed was showing on APRS was all these things in a cancelled state
repeatedly and constantly.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=629150622-02052018><FONT face=Arial>It appears that the WX feed
is just overloaded and Buffered and attempting to play catch up but in reality I
think its failing and just dumping it all to the server at a rate slow enough
that it may never clear the buffer.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=629150622-02052018><FONT face=Arial>Another curiosity is
something observed here <A
href="http://second.aprs.net.au:14501/">http://second.aprs.net.au:14501/</A> where
the callsign WXSVR-AU is logged into the Tier 2 server from IP
59.167.198.98</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=629150622-02052018><FONT face=Arial>This has been logged in
since about 1800 local time last night (when I first observed the excess
traffic) and is watching amongst other things its own feed from WXSVR-AU . The
filter is <FONT face="Times New Roman">b/WXBOT-AU g/WXBOT-AU b/WXSVR-AU
g/WXSVR-AU g/VK3MJM-15 b/VK3MJM-15</FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=629150622-02052018><FONT face=Arial>So what is this WXBOT-AU
software package doing watching its own callsign and feed ? Its showing a lot of
RX packets and a lot of Duplicate packets for something thats only been logged
in for less than 15 hrs.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face=Arial>Tony <SPAN
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