[aprssig] NWS SAME useful for APRS weather feed?

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I agree and this could be easily accomplished IF the alternate servers
generate their feed from the same source as WxSvr and use the same code
so that the extra packets which enter APRS-IS will be duplicates of each
other and the APRS-IS servers will drop the dupes.  I have asked for
this scenario for at least the last 3 years now with nothing to show for
those requests.

73,

Pete Loveall AE5PL
mailto:pete at ae5pl.net 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curt, WE7U
> Posted At: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:23 AM
> Subject: RE: [aprssig] NWS SAME useful for APRS weather feed?
> 
> Every once in a while that server or it's network connection 
> go down, then we're left with nothing.  It has been very 
> dependable, but no system is 100% and at the moment we have a 
> possible single-point-of-failure there for the weather feeds.
> 
> IMHO we need one or two alternates that could take up the 
> slack in these cases.  You're correct that we don't need 
> multiple stations duplicating reports all the time, but those 
> issues could be worked around.