CWOP Information for DW4297 (D4297) in Minturn, CO US

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Registered Location

Latitude: 39° 35' 1" N (deg min sec), 39.5835° (decimal), 3935.01N (LORAN)
Longitude: 106° 25' 37" W (deg min sec), -106.4270° (decimal), 10625.62W (LORAN)
Elevation: 2396 metres (7861 feet) -- validated against 2398 metres (7866 feet) from NED 1/3rd arc-second: Western United States
Location: Minturn, CO US
County: Eagle, CO
Forecast Office: Grand Junction (GJT)
Site Manager/Operator: Jeff
Station type/software: WeatherSnoop / WMR200

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'DW4297' 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. Show location history.

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=d4297'. 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 30 days ago on 2012-01-13.

A recently received report from this station was

DW4297>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@131331z3935.01N/10625.62W_000/000g000t006P000h62b10220ws233

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 (30 days ago) received from this station was
DW4297>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-2:@131331z3935.01N/10625.62W_000/000g000t006P000h62b10220ws233

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: Grand Junction (GJT) .

SiteDistanceLocation
CW93528.4 milesNorthwest Avon, CO US (lat 39.6592°, long -106.5493°, altitude 2468 metres) (data present)
KCCU16.4 milesSoutheast Copper Mountain, Red Cliff Pass, CO, United States (lat 39.4750°, long -106.1530°, altitude 3680 metres) (data present)
DW634017.6 milesEast Silverthorne, CO US (lat 39.6237°, long -106.1008°, altitude 2952 metres) (data present)
KB0VBZ19.8 milesEast Silverthorne, CO US (lat 39.6255°, long -106.0590°, altitude 2736 metres) (data present)
KLXV25.2 milesSouth LEADVILLE LAKE CO, CO, United States (lat 39.2292°, long -106.3169°, altitude 3026 metres) (data present)
KEGE26.4 milesWest Eagle County Regional, CO, United States (lat 39.6428°, long -106.9159°, altitude 1993 metres) (data present)
KDBL27.3 milesWest Red Table Vor, US (lat 39.4333°, long -106.9000°, altitude 3584 metres)
WA5BGT29.5 milesSoutheast Fairplay, CO US (lat 39.2363°, long -106.1075°, altitude 3365 metres) (data present)
DW057130.5 milesSoutheast Fairplay, CO US (lat 39.2298°, long -106.0862°, altitude 3356 metres) (data present)
K3V931.2 milesSouthwest Aspen, CO, United States (lat 39.2900°, long -106.8700°, altitude 2270 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 Jeff
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