====== XRouter Tour - Weather Information ======

===== Local Weather =====

XRouter automatically decodes local APRS weather broadcasts heard on RF or via the Igate, and stores the closest 5. The list of weather stations is displayed using the **WX** command by itself:

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You can view the weather information from a particular station by typing **WX** and the callsign with a space in between, for example **WX G4GVZ**:
 
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There was a time when this list was full and the furthest station was only about 8 miles away. It's now easier than ever to hook up a weather station, and they are a lot cheaper than before, so as part of the packet revival let's get more weather stations onto packet!

===== Remote Weather =====

If the argument to the WX command is another XRouter that's in the local nodes table, the weather information is fetched from that node's weather server, for example **WX KIDDER** returns this:

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===== Your Own Weather Station =====

You can specify a file from which XRouter will import weather data, making it available to the WX command. The file can be in WXNOW, CUMULUS or <name>: <value> format.

All you have to do is arrange for your weather station to output data to a file in one of those formats.

Or you can pull data from Wunderground etc.

Let's make Packet interesting again!

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