CWOP Information for CW6899 (C6899) in Oamaru, NZ (site inactive)

The following information is known about CW6899. 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° 6' 42" S (deg min sec), -45.1117° (decimal), 4506.70S (LORAN)
Longitude: 170° 56' 17" E (deg min sec), 170.9380° (decimal), 17056.28E (LORAN)
Elevation: 62 metres (203 feet) -- validated against 44 metres (144 feet) from SRTM.C_AUS_3
Location: Oamaru, NZ
Station type/software: WeatherSnoop / Davis Vantage Pro

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'CW6899' 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 station (or view from the station) is shown here. You can choose the view direction to see the surroundings. Other information (and somewhat larger images) can be found by clicking on the picture.

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the site marker by clicking on Find nearby photographs.

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

cw6899>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@111332z4507.08S/17056.30E_349/000g000t050P000h83b10190ws31

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 .

SiteDistanceLocation
DW51921.5 milesNortheast Oamaru, NZ (lat -45.1027°, long 170.9655°, altitude 53 metres) (data present)
NZOU11.9 milesNortheast Oamaru Arpt (aut, NZ (lat -44.9719°, long 171.0808°, altitude 29 metres)
NZWM23.5 milesNorth Waimate Airport, CAN, New Zealand (lat -44.7900°, long 171.0920°, altitude 24 metres)
9375142.1 milesNorthwest Aviemore, -, New Zealand (lat -44.6670°, long 170.3500°, altitude 241 metres)
9389646.4 milesSouth Taiaroa Head, -, New Zealand (lat -45.7667°, long 170.7333°, altitude 76 metres)
9382446.7 milesWest Wedderburn Aws, New Zealand (lat -45.0139°, long 169.9919°, altitude 615 metres)
9377551.6 milesNorth Timaru Harbour, -, New Zealand (lat -44.4000°, long 171.2500°, altitude 8 metres)
ZL3JS-151.6 milesNorth Timaru, NZ (lat -44.3956°, long 171.2325°, altitude 46 metres) (data present)
9389852.6 milesSouthwest Swampy Summit Aws, New Zealand (lat -45.8006°, long 170.4769°, altitude 716 metres)
NZDH56.3 milesSouth Dunedin Hospital Heliport, OTA, New Zealand (lat -45.8686°, long 170.5110°, altitude 48 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
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