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I was having a problem on my GRLevel3 not showing my station on the map using the CWOP placefile.

Looking at the raw data from both my station and a nearby one that was working OK, I noticed that the uploads from meteohub were always using CWOP-2.

EW4401:
EW4401>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-4:@081331z4520.82N/08414.03W_243/005g007t045r000p000P000h91b10182L091.DsVP
EW4401>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-6:@081336z4520.82N/08414.03W_252/005g008t045r000p000P000h91b10507L105.DsVP
EW4401>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-5:@081342z4520.82N/08414.03W_243/007g009t045r000p000P000h91b10181L098.DsVP
EW4401>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-5:@081346z4520.82N/08414.03W_278/006g009t046r000p000P000h91b10183L097.DsVP
EW4401>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@081351z4520.82N/08414.03W_257/005g008t046r000p000P000h91b10181L084.DsVP

CW4114: (mine)
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@081332z4525.05N/08348.65W_198/002g005t048r000p000P000b10190h91L088eMH50
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@081337z4525.05N/08348.65W_194/002g006t048r000p000P000b10191h91L097eMH50
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@081342z4525.05N/08348.65W_198/001g006t049r000p000P000b10192h91L098eMH50
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@081347z4525.05N/08348.65W_232/000g006t049r000p000P000b10192h91L102eMH50
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@081352z4525.05N/08348.65W_212/001g006t049r000p000P000b10193h90L111eMH50

The nearby station that was showing up OK was rotating across the APRS servers.

I noticed in the meteobridge network setting that there was an APRS upload option that allowed setting the server name and port. I used cwop.aprs.net:14580 and my station started showing up in the placefile.

Is there an option to change the server in meteohub? Even if I need to change a configuration file (I know my way around Linux), it would be OK.

Greg

I have to admit, that I am a bit tired on finding out what the CWOP server addresses of the week are

Could you please point me to a the list of servers to actually work with? CWOP is for the non-insider
very complicated on things that really don't need to be complicated. Why can anyone invent the
idea of rotating names instead of having a constant name and doing load balancing with a logic
behind this... as everyone in the world is doing...

This is what I plugged into meteobridge under the APRS settings and it rotates through the servers, avoiding whatever the issue is at Allisonhouse/GRLevel3 and CWOP-2. Using the CWOP settings on meteobridge didn't work either, only this APRS trick worked.

cwop.aprs.net:14580

Here is the tail end of my raw CWOP data: (you can see the various servers that it is using, some of which must be OK on Allisonhouse)

I see CWOP-1, 6, 4, 5, 7 and 3 as well as the dreaded "2".

CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@111540z4525.03N/08348.63W_259/007g013t067r000p000P000b10024h63L489eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-6:@111541z4525.03N/08348.63W_269/007g013t067r000p000P000b10024h62L490eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-4:@111542z4525.03N/08348.63W_285/006g013t067r000p000P000b10024h63L492eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@111543z4525.03N/08348.63W_253/006g013t067r000p000P000b10024h62L492eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-5:@111544z4525.03N/08348.63W_274/005g013t067r000p000P000b10024h63L492eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-5:@111545z4525.03N/08348.63W_267/005g013t067r000p000P000b10024h62L496eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-6:@111546z4525.03N/08348.63W_319/005g011t068r000p000P000b10024h62L497eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@111547z4525.03N/08348.63W_310/004g011t068r000p000P000b10025h62L497eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-5:@111548z4525.03N/08348.63W_239/004g011t068r000p000P000b10025h62L499eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-6:@111549z4525.03N/08348.63W_266/004g013t068r000p000P000b10025h61L501eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@111550z4525.03N/08348.63W_251/004g013t068r000p000P000b10025h61L503eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-4:@111551z4525.03N/08348.63W_243/004g013t068r000p000P000b10025h61L504eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-6:@111552z4525.03N/08348.63W_227/004g013t068r000p000P000b10025h62L506eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@111553z4525.03N/08348.63W_297/004g013t068r000p000P000b10026h62L506eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-4:@111554z4525.03N/08348.63W_274/005g013t068r000p000P000b10026h61L508eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-1:@111555z4525.03N/08348.63W_234/005g013t068r000p000P000b10026h61L510eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-5:@111556z4525.03N/08348.63W_258/006g013t068r000p000P000b10026h62L512eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-5:@111557z4525.03N/08348.63W_275/006g013t068r000p000P000b10026h61L512eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-7:@111558z4525.03N/08348.63W_271/006g013t068r000p000P000b10026h61L513eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-5:@111559z4525.03N/08348.63W_220/006g013t068r000p000P000b10025h62L515eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@111600z4525.03N/08348.63W_248/006g013t068r000p000P000b10026h62L515eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-6:@111601z4525.03N/08348.63W_282/006g013t068r000p000P000b10025h60L517eMB26
CW4114>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-6:@111602z4525.03N/08348.63W_260/006g013t068r000p000P000b10025h60L517eMB26

As of this writing, my CWOP station is showing up on the GRLevel3 maps. The entire issue is puzzling, since all other maps, sites, etc. showed the data OK while using CWOP-2. This is kind of a workaround for the Allisonhouse issue. They still don't have a handle on the problem yet.

Greg Hamel

The response I received from AH was that their connection to CWOP-2 goes "stale" quickly.
They were surprised that Meteohub is not using the "round robin" rotate method. That is what they recommend.

Greg

They were surprised that Meteohub is not using the "round robin" rotate method. That is what they recommend.

Luckily amazon.com does not ask us to do "round robin" ala
amazon-1.com, amazon-2.com, ...oh no, amazon-2.com is not
feeling so good today, you should know that and use amazon-7.com
until this weeks end, and give amazon-6.com a preference on
next week...

My recommendation is that they start using proper load balancing
techniques instead of asking the users to do that for them.