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Automatic Position Reporting System CHARTER MEMBER Members of ARES/SKYWARN working with the local NWS Office strive to help warn the public of Severe Weather Conditions. This includes reporting local coastal and small stream flooding, Spotting of Severe Thunderstorms which may include tornados, High Winds, Hail, and frequent Lightening. Amateur Radio Operators use highly sophisticated equipment to help them accomplish this goal. This equipment includes Home Weather Stations, Computers, Radio equipment, GPS equipment, and specialized software called APRS which is used to identify amateur station location and to track storms as they pass thru the Tampa Bay Area. We also pay close attention to local radar images from NWS at Ruskin, FL Next_Rad Doppler Radar. (See the SKYWARN Page for up to date Radar Images.) APRS, while it is used almost exclusively here in Florida for WX Info reporting to the local NWS and to the Hurricane Center in Miami, has many useful functions..Visit the WB4APRS Web Site (see APRS DEMOS below) to see more of its useful applications. Click on one of these to Get the latest version of your favorite APRS program DOS aprs Now FREE WIN APRS APRSplus MAC aprs UI-View Now FREE Linux Palmstuff The URL to obtain the FREE UIVIEW32 Registration is: http://www.apritch.myby.co.uk/uiv32_uiview32.php NOTE: While the software is FREE, there is a request from the author and his family for a voluntary donation to the Cancer Society. The software originally was being sold for approximately $20.00 USD There are over 25 FREE Add-Ons for UIVIEW M0CYP Freeware Add-on's offers 16 of them alone UI-Path32   UI-ODBC Bridge   UI-Route   UI-PaintBox   Quick Logbook FindU Log   UI-HeightTrack   UI-DX Bridge   UI-Store & Fwd   UI-NetActive UI-Drafts   UI-Weather   UI-Traffic Monitor   UI-InfoKiosk   XTR Control Panel UI-Waypoint Other Add-On Sites Karl - G6ODT   Alex - G7JGQ   Pat - KD5AAY   Roger - G4IDE   Chris - PA7RHM   Daniel - G7SUH USA Specific Features UI-View is used around the world but there are a few features specific to the USA which are worth mentioning Want to have Zoomable maps in UI-View32 using Precision Mapping? Follow this link to see if this is for you DeLorme Street Atlas Map Grabber for UI-View32 Included from version 1.86 is support for National Weather Service warnings Take a look at File -> UI-NWS from within UI-View32 Create Terraserver maps for use with UI-View32 easily with this add-on UI-Tera UI-View Overlays Overlays are stored in the overlay subdirectory directory of your main UI-View directory. Once placed in there and you have restarted UI-View you can select them from the Action -> Overlays menu APRS File Directories TAPR FTP all the Dos Win and Mac upgrades and maps Live APRS Demos by WB4APR CLICK HereDegree/Minute/Second Conversion Utility File APRS programs take advantage of the availability of inexpensive GPS receivers to display the locations of moving stations on your PC. By connecting your PC computer to any radio network via a radio and TNC or even without a TNC using TCP/IP which most APRS programs now support, then all stations can see the movements of all other stations. APRS permits any number of stations to exchange data just like voice users but without the complexity of maintaining separate point-to-point links. The primary APRS display screen is the MAP display. Tucson Amateur Packet Radio TAPR hosts the APRS ftp site and the APRS sig e-mail list and archives TAPR Home Page This RingSurf APRS Webring Net Ring owned by Pinellas County FL APRS. [ Skip Next | Next 5 | Random | List Sites | Join] Back to the SKYWARN Page Last Updated Feb 26, 2007 Neil, W4NHL Copyright; September 26, 1996 Neil Lauritsen This Home Page was created on Saturday, January 20, 1996 Most recent revision May 24. 2004