CWOP Information for GW0735 (G0735) in Racine, WI, US

The following information is known about GW0735. 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: 42° 45' 25" N (deg min sec), 42.7568° (decimal), 4245.41N (LORAN)
Longitude: 86° 12' 46" E (deg min sec), 86.2127° (decimal), 08612.76E (LORAN)
Elevation: 2460 metres (8072 feet) -- validated against 2466 metres (8091 feet) from Geonames
Location: Racine, WI, US
Station type/software: Weather Display / 11

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'GW0735' 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 'GW0735' 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 email them to g0735@photo.gladstonefamily.net.

Picture Submission

There are two ways to submit pictures. If you are a flickr user, then see the flickr section below. Otherwise you can simply email the pictures as follows:

Email the pictures to g0735@photo.gladstonefamily.net.
If you use a smartphone that embeds the GPS coordinates in the pictures, then you can send any picture of a weather station to gps@photo.gladstonefamily.net and it will be associated with the correct station automatically.

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=g0735 -- 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

No data has been seen recently. Please check at findu.com to see if your data is being seen there.

Data was seen at findu.com around 135 days ago on 2023-12-11.

A recently received report from this station was

GW0735>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-7:@111125z4245.41N/-8747.24W_328/002g008t026r000p000P000b09981h79L000.WD 11

This report was not parsed as a valid APRS message.

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 (135 days ago) received from this station was
GW0735>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-7:@111125z4245.41N/-8747.24W_328/002g008t026r000p000P000b09981h79L000.WD 11

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 .

Site	Distance		Location
CW9134	38.3 miles	West	Grand Rapids, MI, US (lat 42.9378°, long 85.4992°, altitude 228 metres) (data present)
DW2147	389.8 miles	Southwest	Uniontown, PA, US (lat 39.8978°, long 79.7418°, altitude 318 metres) (data present)
GW0608	403.3 miles	South	Chaplin, KY, US (lat 37.0000°, long 85.0000°, altitude 4183 metres) (data present)
EW0990	405.1 miles	East	Havelock, IA, US (lat 42.1005°, long 94.1003°, altitude 374 metres) (data present)
GW2394	519.7 miles	Southwest	Blowing Rock, NC, US (lat 36.1175°, long 81.6500°, altitude 1171 metres) (data present)
GW2005	522.7 miles	Southwest	LOCUST DALE, VA, US (lat 38.3550°, long 78.1180°, altitude 130 metres) (data present)
KI4CGS	532.0 miles	South	Jasper, TN, US (lat 35.0780°, long 85.6308°, altitude 192 metres) (data present)
FW5451	582.8 miles	Southeast	Rogers, AR, US (lat 36.6862°, long 93.8215°, altitude 1250 metres) (data present)
EW4874	616.4 miles	West	Knox, NY, US (lat 42.4600°, long 74.1000°, altitude 394 metres) (data present)
GW1749	622.6 miles	South	HONEA PATH, SC, US (lat 34.3288°, long 82.1583°, altitude 722 metres) (data present)

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 Siting Guide (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Another CWOP Guide (PDF): This is another guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Urban Siting and Operations (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station in an urban environment.

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
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