Send an APRS message from your radio keyboard to wb9tlh-11 (or any WXN server)
and receive a weather message back to your radio!

 wxnquery server now makes a D700 speak the weather if equipped with the voice chip.

Example
To: wb9tlh-11 
Message:    tc

Returned message from the WXN server "%tc=23" current temp is 23 degrees.
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To find the nearest server:

To: wxn
Message: ?

The returned message will have the local server name you can use to query the server.
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Temperature

    tc=current temp
    th=today high temp
    tl=today low temp
    tr=temp rate/hour
    td=temp rate/24H
    ti=inside temp
    ts=soil temp
    tt=yday high temp
    tb=yday low temp
    ca=wind chill avg
    cg=wind chill gust 
    hx=heat index
    dh=heating degree days
    dc=cooling degree days
 
Wind
   
    wc=current wind avg
    wg=current wind gust
    wh=wind avg high
    wl=wind avg low
    wt=wind gust high
 
Precip 
    
    pc=precip since midnight
    pi=precip rate/inst
    ph=precip rate/hour
    pl=precip last hour
    pd=precip 24 hr amt
    py=precip yesterday
    pm=precip month total
    pa=precip annual total
 
Pressure
   
    bc=current pressure (0.1 mb)
    bh=high pressure (0.1 mb)
    bl=low pressure (0.1 mb)
    br=pressure rate/hour (0.1 mb)
    bd=pressure rate/24H (0.1 mb)
 
Humidity
    
    hc=current humidity
    hh=high humidity
    hl=low humidity
    hr=humidity rate/hr
    hd=humidity rate/24H
    hi=inside humidity
 
EMP (Lightning)
    
    ec=EMP 5 min
    eq=EMP 15 min
    es=EMP 30 min
    eh=EMP 60 min
    ed=EMP day total
    ea=all EMP
 
Radiation
    
    rc=bkg rad/avg 5 min
    rh=bkg rad/avg hr
    rd=bkg rad/avg day
    ra=bkg rad/avg max,#trips,trip pt
 
Fog/Dewpoint/NWS/Time 
   
    fo=fog
    dp=dewpoint
    sr=sunrise/sunset times
    na=NWS alert active, 1=yes, 0=no
    dz=zulu time last reading
    dl=local time last reading
 
Location
     
    qt=city,state
    qh=fips,county,state
    qe=elevation, anemometer HAAT
    qn=NWS AFOS identifier
 
 

A '?' by itself will tell the user to enter first character of command area.
 This doesn't appear in the above array.
 Help, by virtue of the D7's limitations, is quite limited. 
However, it should help someone to find out what commands are there and what they return.
 Hopefully users will be smart enough to realize that 't' is for temperature,
 'b' for barometer, etc. Just not enough screen space on an hand held radio to do it right.
 
 

For more Information Email wb9tlh@arrl.net          04/30/03