CWOP Information for WA8RC-15 (AR381) in Battle Creek, MI US

The following information is known about WA8RC-15. 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: 42° 21' 19" N (deg min sec), 42.3552° (decimal), 4221.31N (LORAN)
Longitude: 85° 10' 30" W (deg min sec), -85.1750° (decimal), 08510.50W (LORAN)
Elevation: 283 meters (928 feet) -- validated against 269 meters (884 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Battle Creek, MI US
County: Calhoun, MI
Forecast Office: Grand Rapids (GRR)
Station type/software: Byonics WxTrak, Radio Shack WX200

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'WA8RC-15' 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=ar381'. 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

No data has been seen recently. Please check at findu.com to see if your data is being seen there.

Weather data was seen at findu.com around 411 days ago on 2007-11-23.

A reasonably recent weather report (411 days ago) received from this station was
WA8RC-15>APTW01,N8TJG-10*,WIDE2-1,qAo,K8TIH:_11230755c324s000g000t020r000p004P000h76b10255tRSW

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: Grand Rapids (GRR) .

SiteDistanceLocation
KBTL5.1 milesSouthwest Battle Creek/klg, MI, United States (lat 42.3073°, long -85.2515°, altitude 290 meters) (data present)
K8SWR7.5 milesNorthwest Battle Creek, MI US (lat 42.4518°, long -85.2425°, altitude 289 meters) (data present)
CW53477.5 milesNorthwest Battle Creek, MI US (lat 42.4518°, long -85.2425°, altitude 289 meters) (data present)
KRMY13.3 milesSoutheast Marshall, MI, United States (lat 42.2512°, long -84.9555°, altitude 286 meters) (data present)
K5D813.6 milesSoutheast Marshall, US (lat 42.2500°, long -84.9500°, altitude 287 meters)
CW015817.2 milesWest Richland, MI US (lat 42.4030°, long -85.5057°, altitude 275 meters) (data present)
CW024119.2 milesWest Kalamazoo, MI US (lat 42.3248°, long -85.5486°, altitude 259 meters) (data present)
77MI20.3 milesSouth David's (lat 42.0653°, long -85.2417°, altitude <unknown> meters)
KAZO21.0 milesSouthwest Kalamazoo Intl A, MI, United States (lat 42.2347°, long -85.5519°, altitude 266 meters) (data present)
K9D923.1 milesNorth Hastings (lat 42.6636°, long -85.3463°, altitude 244 meters)

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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