[wxqc] [personal] Server recommendations, Again!

[Jim Pace]

Posting to this list, asking for uploads to be changed to the new servers is 
like preaching to the choir, I'm afraid. I would venture that all who follow 
the postings in this list have already made the changes. It's the 2000 some 
uploaders who are apparently blissfully unaware of all the recent happenings 
that need to get the message somehow.
Just now, I took a look at all the CWOP stations listed in the "Nearby 
Weather Stations" list for my station. Of the 20 stations on the list, 10 
have the CW id. Looking at the raw weather packets of them one by one, I am 
seeing only 3 of the 10 using the new server designation. Of those 3 using 
cwop.aprs.net, one is my station, another is the only other station in my 
little town who only made the switch after I emailed him to make him aware 
of the requested changes, and the last one must have been paying attention.
Perhaps all of us following this list should pull up their "Nearby Weather 
Stations" list, click on the CW/DW stations one by one and look to see if 
they are not posting to the cwop.aprs.net server designation. We could find 
their CWOP registered email address and attempt to send them a carefully 
worded request to make the change.
Jim,
CW0825
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gerry Creager" <gerry.creager at tamu.edu>
To: "Discussion of weather data quality issues" 
<wxqc at lists.gladstonefamily.net>
Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2008 8:46 AM
Subject: [personal] [wxqc] Server recommendations, Again!


> 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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