Hello, this may be a bit of a fundamental question, but I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere online. How does one set up the client to display nearby CWOP/APRS weather stations like the ones circled in the attached image? Thank you for the help!
YAAC will do this automatically for any APRS weather stations you receive. Note the operative word, "receive". If you don't hear their packets, you won't display them. As for non-APRS/non-amateur-radio CWOP stations, these stations (by definition) are not on RF or the APRS-IS backbone, so you won't be able to find them either with your radio or your APRS-IS connection. The aprs.fi website uses a different data source to receive and display these stations.
I have a query in to the operator of aprs.fi, and hopefully he will be able to inform me how to get non-radio CWOP station data.
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Got the info. Just like the alternate APRS-IS backbone called Firenet (which contains the full Tier2 feed of APRS-IS plus fire, police, and weather emergency data), there is another alternate net called cwop.aprs2.net. In the APRS-IS port configuration panel, you can manually type "cwop.aprs2.net" into the server host name field instead of picking from the drop-down list. This should be a transmit-disabled connection, as it only carries the weather stations (both amateur radio and non-ham).
Note that you can open two APRS-IS connections in YAAC: one to one of the regular rotators like noam.aprs2.net, and one to cwop.aprs2.net, so you can receive weather traffic and still do normal I-gating. YAAC is programmed to not forward packets between different I-gate backbones, even if you are configured as a transmit-capable I-gate. However, it is recommended not to specify weather stations in a supplemental Tx-I-gate filter expressions, as the sheer amount of weather traffic from the Internet-only weather stations could overload the RF channel.
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Hello, this may be a bit of a fundamental question, but I haven't been able to find the answer anywhere online. How does one set up the client to display nearby CWOP/APRS weather stations like the ones circled in the attached image? Thank you for the help!
YAAC will do this automatically for any APRS weather stations you receive. Note the operative word, "receive". If you don't hear their packets, you won't display them. As for non-APRS/non-amateur-radio CWOP stations, these stations (by definition) are not on RF or the APRS-IS backbone, so you won't be able to find them either with your radio or your APRS-IS connection. The aprs.fi website uses a different data source to receive and display these stations.
I have a query in to the operator of aprs.fi, and hopefully he will be able to inform me how to get non-radio CWOP station data.
Got the info. Just like the alternate APRS-IS backbone called Firenet (which contains the full Tier2 feed of APRS-IS plus fire, police, and weather emergency data), there is another alternate net called cwop.aprs2.net. In the APRS-IS port configuration panel, you can manually type "cwop.aprs2.net" into the server host name field instead of picking from the drop-down list. This should be a transmit-disabled connection, as it only carries the weather stations (both amateur radio and non-ham).
Note that you can open two APRS-IS connections in YAAC: one to one of the regular rotators like noam.aprs2.net, and one to cwop.aprs2.net, so you can receive weather traffic and still do normal I-gating. YAAC is programmed to not forward packets between different I-gate backbones, even if you are configured as a transmit-capable I-gate. However, it is recommended not to specify weather stations in a supplemental Tx-I-gate filter expressions, as the sheer amount of weather traffic from the Internet-only weather stations could overload the RF channel.