CWOP Information for ON4BDW (AP614) in Vaartdijk, BE

The following information is known about ON4BDW. 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: 51° 12' 28" N (deg min sec), 51.2078° (decimal), 5112.47N (LORAN)
Longitude: 3° 0' 52" E (deg min sec), 3.0143° (decimal), 00300.86E (LORAN)
Elevation: 5 meters (16 feet) -- validated against -1 meters (-3 feet) from SRTM.C_1TO19_3
Location: Vaartdijk, BE
Unknown station type/software: ON4BDW>APU24L,ON0ABT*,WIDE,TRACE5-5,qAR,ON7EQ:=5112.45N/00300.85E_ {UIV32}

If you know what sort of station equipment is in use at this site, then please send email to Philip Gladstone with this information. The email address can be found at the bottom of this page.

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'ON4BDW' 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.

The position of the clicked point on the map is:

The position of the 'ON4BDW' marker on the map is:

Latitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)
Longitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)

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=ap614'. 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. (There are some) (There are none) (There may be some) (Automatically loaded if any)

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Clicking on the map above will redo the search centered on the clicked point.

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Clicking on the map above will redo the search centered on the clicked point.

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the selected point 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

ON4BDW>APU24L,ON0ABT*,WIDE,TRACE5-5,qAR,ON7EQ:=5112.45N/00300.85E_ {UIV32}

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 .

Site	Distance		Location
06408	4.6 miles	Northwest	Oostende (pier), Belgium (lat 51.2333°, long 2.9167°, altitude 9 meters)
EBOS	6.6 miles	West	Oostende Airport, Belgium (lat 51.1989°, long 2.8622°, altitude 5 meters) (data present)
ON7EQ-5	10.5 miles	Southeast	Brugge, BE (lat 51.0910°, long 3.1690°, altitude 15 meters) (data present)
06418	11.8 miles	Northeast	Zeebrugge, Belgium (lat 51.3333°, long 3.2000°, altitude 9 meters)
ON7DKE	13.4 miles	Northeast	Heist aan Zee, BE (lat 51.3350°, long 3.2487°, altitude 1 meters)
CW1278	14.3 miles	Southeast	Brugge, BE (lat 51.0895°, long 3.2855°, altitude 20 meters) (data present)
EBFN	17.7 miles	Southwest	Koksijde, Belgium (lat 51.0903°, long 2.6528°, altitude 9 meters) (data present)
06308	20.1 miles	Northeast	Cadzand Wp, Netherlands (lat 51.3833°, long 3.3833°, altitude 7 meters)
EBUL	20.5 miles	East	Ursel (lat 51.1442°, long 3.4756°, altitude 28 meters)
06414	21.8 miles	South	Beitem, Belgium (lat 50.9000°, long 3.1167°, altitude 25 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 Sunday, 29 March 2009
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