[wxqc] Reporting time

[Sam Drinkard]

Hello fellow wx enthusists,

    Got a question for you.  I assume most of you, like myself, are 
sending data to the APRS network every 5 minutes or thereabouts.  I'm 
curious if there are perhaps some of you that use some longer time 
period, say half-hour or hourly, like the some of the ASOS stations.  If 
so, when you look at your graphs from Phillip's website, do your plots 
have a smoother line?  I've been looking at today's plots for my 
station, and I had a real case of the jaggies today, especially on baro 
and temp.  I can envision why to some degree, but the frequency of the 
changes looks like it changed every 5 minutes!  Looking at the local 
ASOS stations here, I see their lines are relatively smooth, even if 
they show rather drastic deviations from the analysis.  I know we've had 
past discussions about jaggies, and they are partly due to some stations 
reporting off/on and other reasons. Given the MADIS data is I believe, 
ingested every 15 minutes or so, I'm curious if changing the report 
period to hourly would help eliminate the jaggies.  Phillip, Russ,  
Dave, or Bart, you can correct me on some of this.. going from memory...

    You can see my plots for today at:

http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/AR471

    Comments anyone?


Sam