[wxqc] Reporting time

[Art Thomas]

Sam,

I upload once an hour since I'm on a dial-up connection (out in the 
boonies with no broadband service).

http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/wxpage.cgi?call=CW2428&last=36&radar=***

art thomas

 Sam Drinkard wrote:

> 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
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