Jason Winningham wrote:
On Dec 16, 2006, at 11:25 AM, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
I agree, although changing the spec is likely to be difficult. Thus,
I'm thinking about a back-door approach to create the weather products.
Could we do something as simple as a keyword in the status test to
indicate it meets NWS/NOAA standards? Or is the current APRS WX format
inadequate in some way?
What I'd like to see is a weather message that then has, appended to it,
the new message.
It could even be as rigorous as having a station vetted in some way,
then a (short) public key issued to that station to include in the
status text to give the issuing authority a higher level of confidence
to the data.
CWOP's not ready for this yet. There's some planning going into how to
accomplish a combination of better metadata collection and management,
as well as maintaining a slightly different QC compendium. The jury is
still out on the QC work, as Philip Gladstone's really done a stellar
job of bringing this together into a system that works well and is
understandable by folks with little understanding of the statistical
methods used for this work.
There's certainly nothing to stop anyone from declaring another packet
format altogether, although it needs to be compatible with the
Kenwoods. |:
hrumph...
I've also thought that one solution to the 144.39 channel crowding was
to move WX and an appropriate number if digis to another frequency to
create an APRS WX net.
Interesting idea and one I'd support but it's something that would be a
long-shot. Getting hams to move the digi resources is likely to be
problemmatical. I remember the number of crystals I bought to facilitate
the move to 144.39.
gerry
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