CWOP Information for KF4HJW (AP004) in Tide, VA US

The following information is known about KF4HJW. If you think that any information is incorrect, then please follow the instructions for correcting that data item.

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Registered Location

Latitude: 37° 6' 2" N (deg min sec), 37.1005° (decimal), 3706.03N (LORAN)
Longitude: 76° 32' 42" W (deg min sec), -76.5450° (decimal), 07632.70W (LORAN)
Elevation: 7 meters (22 feet) -- validated against 7 meters (21 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Tide, VA US
County: City of Newport News, VA
Forecast Office: Wakefield (AKQ)
Station type/software: WinAPRS 2.8.4

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'KF4HJW' marker) will display the latitude/longitude of that point.

If the displayed location (or elevation) of the weather observing location is incorrect, please drag the marker to the right location (or click in the right location), and then send the updated information. Please note that we are trying to spot either the Stevenson Screen (or equivalent) or the location where the barometric readings are taken.

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

There are no photographs of the station. If you are the site operator and have pictures of this location, then please upload them to Flickr (detailed instructions) and add the two tags 'wxtagged' and 'wx:cwop=ap004'. If the picture is of the weather station itself, then please also add the 'wx:station' tag as well.

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the site marker by clicking on Find nearby photographs.

APRS Status

Your data is flowing into findu.com, but no weather data is being received from findu.com.

A recently received report from this station was

KF4HJW>APW284,WIDE2-2,VA2-2,qAo,W4OTN-1:=3706.53N/07632.70W_PHG2150/WinAPRS 2.8.4 -284-<630>

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: Wakefield (AKQ) .

SiteDistanceLocation
KPHF3.6 milesNortheast Patrick Henry, VA, United States (lat 37.1319°, long -76.4930°, altitude 13 meters) (data present)
W4FLS3.8 milesSoutheast Newport News, VA US (lat 37.0725°, long -76.4860°, altitude 7 meters) (data present)
KFAF4.2 milesNorthwest Ft Eustis/felker, VA, United States (lat 37.1325°, long -76.6088°, altitude 3 meters) (data present)
31VA5.8 milesSouthwest Aberdeen Field (lat 37.0238°, long -76.5886°, altitude 10 meters)
CW09476.3 milesNortheast Yorktown, VA US (lat 37.1692°, long -76.4713°, altitude 32 meters)
CW37776.9 milesEast Hampton, VA US (lat 37.0887°, long -76.4207°, altitude 3 meters) (data present)
CW23948.0 milesSouthwest Smithfield, VA US (lat 36.9937°, long -76.6012°, altitude 19 meters) (data present)
KLFI10.2 milesEast Langley Afb/hmtn, VA, United States (lat 37.0829°, long -76.3605°, altitude 3 meters) (data present)
DW139410.3 milesSouth Smithfield, VA US (lat 36.9570°, long -76.5963°, altitude 12 meters) (data present)
KJGG13.5 milesNorthwest Williamsburg-jam, VA, United States (lat 37.2392°, long -76.7161°, altitude 14 meters) (data present)

The sites marked above thus did not report continuously during the analysis period, so the offsets may (probably will) not be accurate.

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

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.


Website comments, problems etc to
Philip Gladstone

Last modified Wednesday, 07 January 2009
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