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<title>April 15, 2013</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The NOAA operated CWOP Support e-mail link is now operational. So, any question on any aspect of CWOP operation can now be directed to <A href="mailto:cwop-support@noaa.gov">CWOP-support@noaa.gov</A>.

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<title>Mar 28, 2013</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Davis Weather Products has issued firmware update 3.12 for Vantage Pro2, Weather Envoy, and Firmware 3.14 for Envoy 8X stations that were manufactured after April 2006.  If you have a console manufactured before April 2006, you should stay with Firmware 1.90.  (Note: If you try to install firmware version 3.12 on a Vantage Pro2 or Weather Envoy and the unit does not display inside temperature, inside humidity or barometric pressure readings, it means that you have a unit that was manufactured before April 2006.  To correct this, simply download and reinstall firmware Version 1.90.)  These updates may be downloaded from the <A href="http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/downloads/software_frmwr.asp"><B>Davis website</B></A>.

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<title>Jan 09, 2013</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Jon Racy, long-time CWOP member CW0752, passed away on Jan 08, 2013. Jon was the  Lead Forecaster at <A href="http://www.spc.noaa.gov"><B>Storm Prediction Center</B></A> (SPC), in Norman, OK. There's a nice <A href="http://www.spc.noaa.gov/Racy/"><B>memoriam page</B></A> that mentions "His rooftop weather station became the accepted SPC employees' record of weather events in Norman." 

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<title>Nov 08, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[<A href="http://www.co.chelan.wa.us/pw/data/citizen_weather_observer.pdf"><B>NWS Brochure</B></A> titled "Ways to be a Weather Volunteer and Be a partner to the National Weather Service".

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<title>Oct 30, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Philip has put together a neat way to view <A href="http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/rain/rainfall.html"><B>total rainfall</B></A> from CWOP stations. For the near future, it will show the total rainfall during Hurricane Sandy. 

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<title>Oct 09, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The CWOP1 server recently relocated from Texas A&M to the University of Oklahoma, as discussed in the Sep 30 item below, is now up and running. CWOP server availability can  be checked <A href="http://www.wxqa.com/checkservers2.html"><B>here</B></A>. Any CWOP member using a CW.... DW.... or EW.... ID should be sending packets to one of the CWOP servers or to cwop.aprs.net. The latter is a round robin that will be more reliable.  Folks using CW.... DW.... or EW.... IDs should not be sending packets to ham radio servers even if they have an APRS validation code.  More information on which servers to use is <A href="/servers2use.html"><B>here</B></A>.

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<title>Oct 02, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The <A href="http://stats.pingdom.com/b5bxfmlpk9rx"><B>uptime history</B></A> of the <A href="/index.html"><B>WXQA.COM</B></A> web site goes back to July 2009.

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<title>Sep 30, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Davis Weatherlink <A href="http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/downloads/software_sftwr.asp"><B>update 6.0.2</B></A>, mentioned Sep 17 below, has re-appeared on the Davis website. No reports from anyone who has used it. So, test carefully before use.

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<title>Sep 20, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[For many years, CWOP and APRS servers operated at Texas A&M and supplied reliable and valuable service to the CWOP community. Those servers were deactivated at 1800z on Sept 12 because Gerry Creager (AP009), who kept them going, moved to a new position at the University of Oklahoma. Gerry hopes to be able to provide the same service to the CWOP community from a new location in the near future. In addition to operating CWOP1, CWOP4, CWOP Aggregator and findU backup, Gerry also operated <A href="http://first.aprs.net:14501/"><B>first.aprs.net</B></A> and <A href="http://firenet.us:14501/"><B>firenet.us</B></A>. When either of these links becomes active, the CWOP1 server will follow close behind. CWOP1 availability can also be checked <A href="http://www.wxqa.com/checkservers2.html"><B>here</B></A>.

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<title>Sep 17, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In response to a question by Ron Pippin (CW5020) about why software update 6.0.1 (Aug 21 item below) was no longer available on their web site, Davis tech support replied "There was a problem with 6.0.1 having to do with the annual network subscription. If you are not using that than you should be fine." Update version 6.0.2 will be available on the Davis web site soon.

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<title>Aug 21, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Davis Weather has just posted an update to the Weatherlink Program for Windows.  The update (6.0.1) allows the software to rotate through the available CWOP/APRS servers until CWOP upload is successful.  This fixed a bug, which on some systems, reduced reliability when changing servers.  The update may be downloaded <A href="http://www.davisnet.com/support/weather/downloads/software_sftwr.asp"><B>here</B></A>. 

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<description><![CDATA[Jim Dudley and Marc Ganey have revised and updated their <A href="/aprs_setup_guide.pdf"><B>APRS Setup Guide</B></A> on how to build and set up an AC or DC solar-powered APRS Weather Station based on their experience setting up several CWOP weather stations in the remote mountains near Hanford, CA. Additionally, Marc created a <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyn_IKp7s5A"><B>you tube video</B></A> showing the steps to setting up a Solar Powered Davis APRS unit as has been done at several locations. 

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<title>June 27, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[There are about a dozen wildfires currently burning in Colorado. Three are just to the west of major cities. Here are links to NWS web pages for each of these:  <A href="http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/?n=high_park_wildfire"><B>wildfire near Ft. Collins, CO</B></A>; <A href="http://www.crh.noaa.gov/bou/?n=bison_wildfire"><B>wildfire near Boulder, CO</B></A>; <A href="http://www.crh.noaa.gov/news/display_cmsstory.php?wfo=pub&storyid=84687&source=0"><B>wildfire near Colorado Springs, CO</B></A>. For each of these, you can click on the mesonet data link and see current surface data from CWOP stations near the fires. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes. Many homes have burned.

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<title>May 23, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The compressed raw data packets containing solar radiation measurements collected at APRS and CWOP stations for the past four years are now available through the <A href="http://www.wxqa.com/lum_search.htm"><B>Solar Data Page</B></A> near the bottom.

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<title>Apr 26, 2012</title>
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<description><![CDATA[If you have updated the software for both WeatherLink and the Vantage Pro2 and find that the packets to CWOP have zeros as barometer data, look for Vantage Pro2 firmware version 2.03. Erich <A href="http://www.wxqa.com/cgi-bin/search1.cgi?keyword=DW8823"><B>DW8823</B></A> reports that it fixed the problem for him. Apparently, the problem does not occur with a wireless system.

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