Personal Weather Station - Data Reporting

Posted October 30th, 2009 by carter128
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Hi Kim,

I have a personal weather station, which can be found on the Weather Underground (www.Wunderground.com) as KVABLACK15. It is located on Brush Mountain, just north of Blacksburg, VA, 24060.

At present, my WX station shows up on my Depiction Map, but my weather data, i.e., the current conditions, do not.

Perhaps I need some instruction here, as this point may already have been addressed. If not, is there a way to add the data, as well as just showing where my station is located?

73,

Carter N3AO

‹ Using DSTAR with Depiction Runoff Simulation Element in the upcoming 1.01P Version ›

Comments

APRS

On October 30th, 2009 Kim says:

Carter,

Just double click on your Wx icon and you'll see all the current data in a new window that appears. I just created a depiction of Blacksburg and I see your current weather data when I doubleclick on your WX station APRS icon: 53.6 F 81% 1019.30mbar 182? S 0.0 MPH (gust: 0.0 MPH).
Kim

Personal WX Station

On November 7th, 2009 carter128 says:

Hi Kim,

Thanks for your reply! Yep! When I DOUBLE-CLICKED on the WX icon, there was the weather data. I was so pleased to see that! (I had only SINGLE-CLICKED the icon before...)

Now, I'm wondering if there is a way to show the data without making it look like a mobile station which is just not moving very fast--at all: 00.0 mph!!! It's not a mobile station at all, of course, as it's a fixed weather station...

73, and THANKS!

Carter N3AO

ANOTHER QUESTION Re: Personal Weather Station Data Format

On November 17th, 2009 carter128 says:

I posted this question elsewhere on your help page today, but will do so again here, as this is where I probably should have posted it! Sorry for the confusion!!

My question for today deals with my APRS Personal Weather Station's (PWS) data. I want my barometric pressure to show up on a new Depiction in INCHES, rather than in MILLIBARS. I know that my PWS data is going out to the internet in inches, since I can go to WUnderground and look at KVABLACK15, my PWS, and see the barometric data in inches. But on Depiction the pressure is converted in millibars. How can I fix that, please?

PWS Data

On November 17th, 2009 George says:

All of the APRS data in Depiction today comes from openaprs.net. Check your station there. I don't think we do any conversion, but I'll double-check just in case.

If the issue is on openaprs.net, I suggest you contact the web admin there.

Best,
George

OPENAPRS.NET

On November 18th, 2009 carter128 says:

Hi George,

Here's what I got when I used my browser:

The webpage "www.openaprs.net" cannot be found

DNS error occurred. Server cannot be found. The link may be broken.

Was that a web page or an email address?

 

73,

Carter128 N3AO

Openaprs.net is down

On November 18th, 2009 Kim says:

Carter,

THanks for bringing this to our attention. It appears that the Openaprs.net website is down - we are investigating. Reading their blog indicates that they occasionally go down; though this is the first time we know of since we added APRS to our Quickstart list 7 months ago.
kim

Server move

On November 19th, 2009 George says:

This morning, openaprs.net redirects to openaprs.blogspot.com which shows a report that they had to move servers unexpectedly and will be back up "around 11/21/09".

-George

Millibars is what I'll have to be happy with

On November 23rd, 2009 carter128 says:

Hi George,

TNX for your help. I was able to reach the new openaprs site, and there found exactly what I had been seeing before. WeatherUnderground seems to be able to switch the millibars over to inches, but that doesn't seem possible on openaprs.

Thanks for trying to help me. There is nothing you can do!

73,

Carter128  N3AO