CWOP Information for W1ACK (AS838) in Nantucket, MA, US (site inactive)

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Registered Location

Latitude: 41° 24' 0" N (deg min sec), 41.4000° (decimal), 4124.00N (LORAN)
Longitude: 70° 12' 0" W (deg min sec), -70.2000° (decimal), 07012.00W (LORAN)
Elevation: 5 metres (16 feet) -- validated against 0 metres (0 feet) from Geonames
Location: Nantucket, MA, US
County: Nantucket, MA
Forecast Office: Boston (BOX)
Weather station Manager/Operator: David
Station type/software: Davis Vantage Pro 2/Vue with Weatherlink

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NOTE: The Registered Location is the location that the station owner provided when they signed up with CWOP. Show location history.

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APRS Status

No data has been seen recently. Please check at findu.com to see if your data is being seen there.

Weather data was seen at findu.com around 1591 days ago on 2019-11-09.

A recently received report from this station was

W1ACK>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-6:@091348z4124.00N/07012.00W_344/000g001t036r000p000P000h59b10271.DsVP

If this is not a weather report, then your station may not be transmitting weather reports, and this may be the problem. Check the recent reports at findu.com to see if any look like weather reports.

Neighboring Stations

This is a list of stations that are close to this station.

You can also subscribe to an RSS feed to tell you when new stations come online in this area. Choose either within 100 miles or 250 miles . For stations covered by your Forecast Office: Boston (BOX) .

SiteDistanceLocation
EW706118.7 milesNorth West Harwich, MA, US (lat 41.6633°, long -70.1153°, altitude 6 metres) (data present)
GW343019.5 milesNorth YARMOUTH, MA, US (lat 41.6808°, long -70.2257°, altitude 17 metres) (data present)
DW954222.1 milesNortheast West Chatham, MA, US (lat 41.6750°, long -69.9845°, altitude 0 metres) (data present)
KE5BM-1323.3 milesNorth DENNIS, MA, US (lat 41.7340°, long -70.1455°, altitude 21 metres) (data present)
GW049623.6 milesNorthwest Falmouth, MA, US (lat 41.5488°, long -70.6088°, altitude 4 metres) (data present)
DW505123.6 milesNorth East Harwich, MA, US (lat 41.7162°, long -70.0278°, altitude 16 metres) (data present)
FW761223.7 milesNorth Dennis, MA, US (lat 41.7430°, long -70.2150°, altitude 8 metres) (data present)
FW297026.2 milesWest Woods Hole, MA, US (lat 41.5267°, long -70.6758°, altitude -2 metres) (data present)
EW505626.5 milesNorth Brewster, MA, US (lat 41.7710°, long -70.0730°, altitude 6 metres) (data present)
EW757429.0 milesNortheast Orleans, MA, US (lat 41.7865°, long -69.9832°, altitude 4 metres) (data present)

Location Formats

The location is shown in three different formats. Each of these is used in some software, and is shown on some websites.

Degrees Minutes Seconds: VWS/VWSAPRS, WeatherLink 5.5, WeatherLink (5.2-5.4), WeatherView (Linux)

Decimal degrees: FreeWX, WeatherView32 (PC application)

LORAN: WeatherDisplay, WUHU, Henriksen WServer

Resources

CWOP Home: This describes the whole CWOP program and has a large amount of useful information.

CWOP Siting Guide (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Another CWOP Guide (PDF): This is another guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Urban Siting and Operations (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station in an urban environment.

APRS WX Message format: This describes the actual format of the messages transmitted that carry WX information.

WXQC Mailing List: This is a mailing list where data quality issues are discussed. Assistance with software configuration can often be found here.

Topo Map Reading Guide: How to read USGS topographic maps, with a good section on reading contours.

Geographically nearby web pages: Use Geourl to find web pages that deal with locations geographically close to this site.


Overall website comments, problems etc to Philip Gladstone
Page layout last modified Sunday, 28 February 2016
Questions for this weather station owner/operator to David
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