CWOP Information for FW1594 (F1594) in MECHANICSVILLE, VA, US

The following information is known about FW1594. 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: 37° 40' 27" N (deg min sec), 37.6743° (decimal), 3740.46N (LORAN)
Longitude: 77° 24' 49" W (deg min sec), -77.4136° (decimal), 07724.82W (LORAN)
Elevation: 164 metres (538 feet)
Location: MECHANICSVILLE, VA, US
County: Hanover, VA
Forecast Office: Wakefield (AKQ)
Weather station Manager/Operator: Joseph
Unknown station type/software: .Acuparse

If you know what sort of station equipment is in use at this site, then please send email to Philip Gladstone with this information. The email address can be found at the bottom of this page.

The elevation does not correspond with the estimated elevation (67 metres (220 feet) -- source Geonames) at that point. Either the location or the elevation (or both) are almost certain to be incorrect. Please use the 'send the updated information' link below to update the location or elevation.

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close. Clicking within the map area (or you can drag the 'FW1594' 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.

The best way to get elevation is to consult a topographic map. Make sure that you know whether the contours are marked in feet or metres. Note that handheld GPS receivers do not provide readings of elevation accurate to better than 10-20 metres (technical discussion). If you do not have access to a topographic map, then a GPS receiver is acceptable, but make sure that it is operating in 3D mode and let it average the position for at least five minutes.

For more information on reading maps, please see the Topo Map Reading Guide -- in particular it discusses how to read contours.

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 'FW1594' 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 f1594@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 f1594@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=f1594 -- 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.

Weather data was seen at findu.com around 21 days ago on 2024-12-08.

A recently received report from this station was

FW1594>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@081951z3740.27N/07724.48W_316/003g003t065r000P000h39b10142.Acuparse

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 (21 days ago) received from this station was
FW1594>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-3:@081951z3740.27N/07724.48W_316/003g003t065r000P000h39b10142.Acuparse

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: Wakefield (AKQ) .

Site	Distance		Location
N4MRV-1	6.7 miles	Northwest	Ashland, VA, US (lat 37.7532°, long -77.4843°, altitude 66 metres) (data present)
CW0630	8.6 miles	West	Glen Allen, VA, US (lat 37.6553°, long -77.5692°, altitude 85 metres) (data present)
CW7979	9.2 miles	Southeast	Mechanicsville, VA, US (lat 37.5803°, long -77.2960°, altitude 43 metres) (data present)
GW3780	9.9 miles	West	GLEN ALLEN, VA, US (lat 37.6787°, long -77.5938°, altitude 88 metres) (data present)
N4DWK	10.3 miles	Southwest	Richmond, VA, US (lat 37.6012°, long -77.5767°, altitude 70 metres) (data present)
EW5196	13.3 miles	West	Henrico, VA, US (lat 37.6362°, long -77.6508°, altitude 49 metres) (data present)
FW0267	13.3 miles	Southwest	Bon Air, VA, US (lat 37.5208°, long -77.5598°, altitude 82 metres) (data present)
EW5195	15.5 miles	South	Richmond, VA, US (lat 37.4558°, long -77.3500°, altitude 44 metres) (data present)
EW1895	15.6 miles	Northwest	Montpelier, VA, US (lat 37.8073°, long -77.6437°, altitude 92 metres) (data present)
KC4YVA	15.6 miles	Southeast	Henrico, VA, US (lat 37.4738°, long -77.2818°, altitude 44 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
Page layout last modified Sunday, 28 February 2016
Questions for this weather station owner/operator to Joseph
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