CWOP Information for KA7SSB (AR753) in Kennewick, WA US

The following information is known about KA7SSB. 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: 46° 12' 29" N (deg min sec), 46.2080° (decimal), 4612.48N (LORAN)
Longitude: 119° 11' 43" W (deg min sec), -119.1952° (decimal), 11911.71W (LORAN)
Elevation: 166 metres (545 feet) -- validated against 166 metres (545 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3W arc second elevation data
Location: Kennewick, WA US
County: Benton, WA
Forecast Office: Pendleton (PDT)
Site Manager/Operator: Brian
Unknown station type/software: uRSW Kennewick WX

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 'KA7SSB' 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=ar753'. 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 407 days ago on 2011-01-01.

A recently received report from this station was

KA7SSB>APRS,WA2WA,BETHAL,WIDE2*,qAR,WB7QBF:@010709z4612.48N/11911.71W_288/000g000t014r000p0000P0000h62b10220uRSW Kennewick WX

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.

A reasonably recent weather report (408 days ago) received from this station was
KA7SSB>APRS,WA2WA,BETHAL,WIDE2*,qAR,WB7QBF:@010709z4612.48N/11911.71W_288/000g000t014r000p0000P0000h62b10220uRSW Kennewick WX

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: Pendleton (PDT) .

SiteDistanceLocation
KS981.0 milesNorthwest Kennewick Vista Field, WA, United States of America (lat 46.2186°, long -119.2100°, altitude 162 metres)
WA7DUH2.0 milesWest Kennewick, WA US (lat 46.2170°, long -119.2338°, altitude 100 metres)
AD7CQ2.1 milesWest Kennewick, WA US (lat 46.2175°, long -119.2375°, altitude 153 metres)
DW28282.5 milesEast Kennewick, WA US (lat 46.2100°, long -119.1422°, altitude 125 metres) (data present)
DW65612.7 milesSouth Kennewick, WA US (lat 46.1707°, long -119.1762°, altitude 266 metres) (data present)
CW55083.2 milesWest Richland, WA US (lat 46.2133°, long -119.2610°, altitude 153 metres) (data present)
CW70804.7 milesNorth Pasco, WA US (lat 46.2760°, long -119.1994°, altitude 152 metres) (data present)
DW74775.2 milesNorth Pasco, WA US (lat 46.2817°, long -119.2120°, altitude 140 metres) (data present)
KPSC5.4 milesNortheast TRI-CITIES AIRPORT, WA, United States (lat 46.2647°, long -119.1190°, altitude 124 metres) (data present)
CW70507.7 milesNorthwest Richland, WA US (lat 46.2932°, long -119.3000°, altitude 123 metres)

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.


Overall website comments, problems etc to Philip Gladstone
Page layout last modified Wednesday, 08 February 2012
Questions for this weather station owner/operator to Brian
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