CWOP Information for N5FDL (AR987) in Tracy, CA US

The following information is known about N5FDL. 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° 41' 57" N (deg min sec), 37.6992° (decimal), 3741.95N (LORAN)
Longitude: 121° 26' 37" W (deg min sec), -121.4437° (decimal), 12126.62W (LORAN)
Elevation: 42 meters (140 feet) -- validated against 43 meters (142 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3W arc second elevation data
Location: Tracy, CA US
County: San Joaquin, CA
Forecast Office: Sacramento (STO)
Station type/software: Davis Vantage Pro 2 with Weatherlink

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'N5FDL' 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=ar987'. 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 172 days ago on 2008-07-19.

A reasonably recent weather report (172 days ago) received from this station was
N5FDL>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,THIRD:@191158z3742.00N/12124.00W_079/000g000t063r000p000P000h68b10056.DsVP

The problem with missing data may be that the station software is not configured with a verified login to the APRS server. If you are the station operator, then please contact Russ Chadwick or Gerry Creager to get a verification code.

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: Sacramento (STO) .

SiteDistanceLocation
KTCY0.7 milesSouth Tracy Muni (lat 37.6890°, long -121.4415°, altitude 58 meters)
CW18922.4 milesNorth Tracy, CA US (lat 37.7322°, long -121.4297°, altitude 19 meters) (data present)
K1Q48.0 milesEast New Jerusalem (lat 37.6791°, long -121.2997°, altitude 18 meters)
DW09468.5 milesNorthwest Mountain House, CA US (lat 37.7839°, long -121.5566°, altitude 24 meters) (data present)
K6CSI12.8 milesWest Livermore, CA US (lat 37.6678°, long -121.6745°, altitude 238 meters) (data present)
KC8313.4 milesNorthwest Byron (lat 37.8284°, long -121.6258°, altitude 24 meters)
KSCK17.5 milesNortheast Stockton Metro, CA, United States (lat 37.8942°, long -121.2383°, altitude 8 meters) (data present)
KD6NIG18.0 milesNortheast Stockton, CA US (lat 37.9288°, long -121.2893°, altitude 3 meters) (data present)
KLVK20.6 milesWest Livermore, CA, United States (lat 37.6934°, long -121.8204°, altitude 121 meters) (data present)
CW419023.3 milesWest Dublin, CA US (lat 37.7250°, long -121.8683°, altitude 157 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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