Bill Arthur

Ah, the old " automatic insertion of positionless weather reports for weather stations that aren't using the weather station symbol" trick. I was setting up a remote station, it worked fine if I had internet, but when I tried sending it over RF the weather portion didn't make it through consistantly. I kept thinking I had a bad TNC, I finally gave up and used aprx for that station.

Page 63 of APRS101 says: "Users may specify any other 2–4 character code for devices not in this list."

Everything is working well on the YAAC side, my data is making it into findu. But it's not quite ready to field. I've found that the weewx extension that creates the wxnow.txt is not retrieving the 1hr and 12hr rain data. Hopefully we can get that fixed soon.

Ah, too easy. Testing it right now.

OK, I think I'm one step away from being able to set up a weather station on a remote hilltop and have it report back via APRS. All I need to do is to configure it to send every 10 minutes instead of every 30 minutes.

Due to how I have my stations named it's not easy to check for the data on MADIS so for now I'm checking the raw data on aprs.fi I'm seeing wx data twice an hour. Before I went to bed last night I shut off the wx port so I wouldn't wake to any surprises. I forgot to uncheck the weather box on the beacon so for many hours the beacon put out stale wx data. Ideally, I should send data to CWOP every five to ten minutes. I don't see how to set that up.

Thanks for the quick response. I'll do some testing this week to see if the data is getting into MADIS. I made an enhancement request about the weather station model. I hope it can be incorporated as the pull down choices are not remotely related to my equipment.

Thanks for the quick response. I'll do some testing this week to see if the data is getting into MADIS. My other configuration (Meteobridge) uses a five digit registration number to authticate the packet. I'm curious if and how it'll work without it. I made an enhancement request about the weather station model. I hope it can be incorporated as the pull down choices are not remotely related to my equipment.