[wxqc] Server recommendations, Again!

[Gerry Creager]

Folks,

We're not seeing much traction in moving from the APRS servers to the 
CWOP-dedicated servers.  I want to encourage everyone with a CW or DW id 
to change their server info to point to cwop.aprs.net using ports 23 or 
14580.  The three servers in that round-robin DNS rotation are dedicated 
to CWOP use, and CWOP CW/DW weather information will not go to the 
APRS-IS core servers.  It WILL be harvested by FindU and WILL get to MADIS.

There will be a new domain, cwopwx.org, that will also have the same 
server addresses soon.  This is an attempt to get CWOP more autonomy in 
the future.

If you're not an Amateur Radio operator, please change your server 
destination to cwop.aprs.net.  The servers and code have been tuned to 
perform CWOP data aggregation and collection only, rather than the full 
gamut of functions required on the APRS-IS.  These are *our* servers and 
making a migration to them will help us all in the long run.

For what it's worth, I've got the CWOP1.tamu.edu (CWOP-1) and 
aprs.tamu.edu (first.aprs.net) servers as well as managing the servers 
for firenet.us and the CWOP.tamu.edu aggregation server.  I also am the 
culprit if there are problems with CWOP-2 and CWOP-3, as I make most of 
the changes on them so that their sysops are not overburdened with 
additional tasks.

We thank the Tier2 folks for their support, as well as the APRS-IS Core 
sys ops.  We need to make this transition to two separate server pools 
and services, though, for some good technical reasons.

Gerry
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