CWOP Information for KB3ONZ (AS571) in Hockessin, DE US

The following information is known about KB3ONZ. 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: 39° 45' 43" N (deg min sec), 39.7619° (decimal), 3945.71N (LORAN)
Longitude: 75° 42' 36" W (deg min sec), -75.7099° (decimal), 07542.59W (LORAN)
Elevation: 101 meters (331 feet) -- validated against 99 meters (326 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Hockessin, DE US
County: New Castle, DE
Forecast Office: Philadelphia/Mt Holly (PHI)
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 'KB3ONZ' 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=as571'. 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 350 days ago on 2008-07-19.

A reasonably recent weather report (350 days ago) received from this station was
KB3ONZ>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,THIRD:@191203z3945.98N/07542.98W_261/002g008t075r000p000P000h83b10161.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: Philadelphia/Mt Holly (PHI) .

SiteDistanceLocation
CW16021.6 milesSouth Newark, DE US (lat 39.7408°, long -75.7208°, altitude 69 meters)
N3PL3.1 milesNortheast Hockessin, DE US (lat 39.7983°, long -75.6757°, altitude 97 meters) (data present)
K5HAL-25.0 milesSouthwest Landenberg, PA US (lat 39.7333°, long -75.7963°, altitude 127 meters) (data present)
CW50215.2 milesNorth Kennett Square, PA US (lat 39.8367°, long -75.7092°, altitude 110 meters) (data present)
KN575.7 milesNorthwest New Garden (lat 39.8305°, long -75.7697°, altitude 132 meters)
CW94275.8 milesSouthwest Newark, DE US (lat 39.6930°, long -75.7713°, altitude 61 meters) (data present)
CW96996.1 milesNorth Kennett Square, PA US (lat 39.8450°, long -75.7470°, altitude 143 meters) (data present)
DW23626.5 milesSouth Newark, DE US (lat 39.6680°, long -75.7215°, altitude 27 meters) (data present)
K3WIL-27.6 milesNorthwest West Chester, PA US (lat 39.8172°, long -75.8331°, altitude 130 meters) (data present)
KILG8.5 milesSoutheast Wilmington, DE, United States (lat 39.6728°, long -75.6008°, altitude 24 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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