CWOP Information for CW1404 (C1404) in Beaver Cove, ME US (site inactive)

The following information is known about CW1404. 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: 45° 33' 27" N (deg min sec), 45.5575° (decimal), 4533.45N (LORAN)
Longitude: 69° 33' 55" W (deg min sec), -69.5653° (decimal), 06933.92W (LORAN)
Elevation: 320 metres (1050 feet) -- validated against 313 metres (1028 feet) from NED Contiguous U. S. 1/3E arc second elevation data
Location: Beaver Cove, ME US
County: Piscataquis, ME
Forecast Office: Caribou (CAR)
Station type/software: Cumulus/DsVP

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW1404' 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 'CW1404' 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=c1404'. If the picture is of the weather station itself, then please also add the 'wx:station' tag as well.

Flickr Upload

Uploading picktures to flickr.com is easy. If you do not have a free flickr account, then you need to create one. Just go to flickr and click the 'Create your account' button. You can use a google account if you have one.

Once logged in, click on 'Upload Photos & Video'. Next click on 'Choose Photos and Videos', and walk through the process to upload your pictures. They will automatically be resized appropriately.

After the upload is complete, it will ask you to add titles, tags and descriptions. The key step is to add tags as follows:

wxtagged -- this indicates that this picture is of a weather station or surrounding area
wx:cwop=c1404 -- this indicates the site of which this is a picture
wxstation -- add this tag if the picture includes the weather station.

If you had to create your account, then you must upload at least five pictures. It will also take longer for your pictures to appear (a week or so). Otherwise, the pictures should appear after 24-48 hours.

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)

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

CW1404>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@091312z4533.45N/06933.87W_324/000g005t007r000P000h84b10122eCumulusDsVP

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.

Data is being seen at findu.com, but this site is not currently marked as active. To fix this, send email to Randy Collander and ask him to activate your site.

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: Caribou (CAR) .

Site	Distance		Location
K52B	6.0 miles	South	Greenville, ME, United States of America (lat 45.4746°, long -69.6039°, altitude 313 metres)
K21M	6.1 miles	Southwest	Greenville Junction Currier's, ME, United States of America (lat 45.4783°, long -69.6193°, altitude 313 metres)
K3B1	6.6 miles	South	Greenville, Greenville Municipal Airport, ME, United States (lat 45.4630°, long -69.5516°, altitude 427 metres)
KGNR	6.7 miles	South	Greenville, ME, United States (lat 45.4622°, long -69.5953°, altitude 427 metres) (data present)
KKJM1	9.8 miles	Northeast	Kokadjo, ME, United States of America (lat 45.6729°, long -69.4463°, altitude 379 metres)
13ME	19.0 miles	Northwest	Socatean Bay Airport, United States of America (lat 45.7767°, long -69.8026°, altitude 359 metres)
KC1AU	19.0 miles	South	Monson, ME US (lat 45.2875°, long -69.4917°, altitude 249 metres)
BLAM1	20.1 miles	South	Piscataquis River at Blanchard (lat 45.2672°, long -69.5842°, altitude 183 metres)
ABTM1	26.4 miles	South	Kingsbury Stream nr Abbot Village (lat 45.1847°, long -69.4528°, altitude 279 metres)
RIPM1	28.3 miles	Northeast	Ripogenous Dam, ME, United States of America (lat 45.8806°, long -69.2050°, altitude 313 metres)

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
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