Ah I see what you mean. So I'm assuming that once I'm sending to CWOP it will show up on sites like aprs.fi? I see many sites on there that aren't HAM operators.
On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 10:43 AM Tom Hogland <tom.hogl...@gmail.com> wrote: > If you go to http://www.wxqa.com/ you will see a link top-center to join > CWOP. Once you do that you can use your CWOP ID within Weewx to send > weather data to CWOP. > > CWOP is the overall system with citizen weather reporting, while APRSWXNET > is the packet radio section of CWOP - ham radio operators sending CWOP > weather data via packet radio. Two parts of the same puzzle - either way it > ends up visible to NOAA/NWS etc. > > I've thought about connecting up to send via APRS but weewx will already > send this data so it seems like a lot of extra work for something I'm > already doing. > > Tom > KL3UU/CW1074 > > On Monday, April 21, 2025 at 6:29:04 AM UTC-8 Mike Book wrote: > >> So at some point APRSWXNET was moved into CWOP. This made CWOP all of it >> as a whole. I did sign up through the NWS website for CWOP. Since I'm an >> amatuer radio operator I wanted to use my call sign. When I selected the >> option for HAM radio operator it told me my station needed to be >> sending data to an APRS server. >> >> At this time I believe I figured it out by watching a video from another >> HAM operator setting up his acurite station. I'm at the point I can get and >> APRS packet but sending it to the internet is what I'm working on next. I >> think I have that setup as well. >> >> On Mon, Apr 21, 2025 at 5:44 AM Karen K <kk44...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> I am not a radio amateur so I may be wrong, but the text provided by the >>> link reads: "The *APRSWXNET/Citizen Weather Observer Program* >>> <http://www.wxqa.com/DCC3.htm> is...". So I would think APRSWXNET and >>> CWOP are synonyms or at least belong together and registering with CWOP is >>> enough. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "weewx-user" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to weewx-user+...@googlegroups.com. >>> >> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2a00622a-4e08-41ac-9792-05ad647a0860n%40googlegroups.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/2a00622a-4e08-41ac-9792-05ad647a0860n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "weewx-user" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/12bc0126-feee-457a-9822-89ee5bd28323n%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/12bc0126-feee-457a-9822-89ee5bd28323n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "weewx-user" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to weewx-user+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/weewx-user/CANHQoNjr5nocRACzBXeL9VCGFzxwh296dQHvVv70S%2BTmbZepXQ%40mail.gmail.com.
