One person per county monitoring Amateur and/or ESDA operations should enter the position reports of the objects on the APRS weathernet. The path of reports to NWSILX is: APRS via WX3,WX2,WX1 The path of Broadcasts from NWSILX is: APRS via WX1,WX2,WX3 local local local local (reports local WX) spotter spotter spotter spotter \ / <-- 144.39 (RELAY) \ / <-- 144.39 (RELAY) \ / \ / COUNTY EOC (PIA) <--445.925--> COUNTY EOC (MCL) K9ORP-1 <-445.925-> etc WX4 WX3 has KPC9612 MYGATE MCL \ <-- 445.925 / <-- 445.925 (WX only traffic) WX3 / \ / \ / WX2 WX2(digi/node to NWS #=tens of miles) \ / \ / \ / WX1 WX1 <-- 445.925 (WX only traffic) \ / \ / **************************************** * NWS OFFICE (NWSILX) at Lincoln * **************************************** / \ / \ WX1 WX1 (digi/node to NWS #=tens of miles) / \ / \ WX2 WX2 / \ / <-- 445.925 \ <-- 445.925 (WX only traffic) WX3 WX3 COUNTY EOC (SPI) <--445.925--> COUNTY EOC (DEC) <--445.925--> etc / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ <-- 144.39 (RELAY) / \ <-- 144.39 (RELAY) / \ / \ local local local local spotter spotter spotter spotter Some areas DO NOT WANT weather information, therefore the WX designator allows routing to the areas that do want it... by assigning the WX alias they agree to weather only traffic. I am using WX1, WX2, WX3 to represent the WX digi's 10, 20, 30 mile radius from the NWS office. Each county would "jump on" the backbone and have their route to the NWS office specified. Of course, if a path was really better then 10 miles (at 9600 baud), it could be specified to go from WX1 to WX3, etc. Since WX# (where # is radius in tens-of-miles), the possible digi's on the radius lines would not be talking to themselves. And ALL the NWS weather offices bulletins should go to all the counties (all 35 counties in Central part of the state) Weather objects should have the name as mmdtownname where mm=miles d=direction townname=closest town spelled out. The icon should be the appropriate weather object. The remarks in those objects should say Confirmed by K9XYZ or Reported by State Police or Reported by countyname ESDA or whatever station reported what you entered. This is so we can use the datestamp on the packet and ask that agency further info later.