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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:

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:

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!

Every XRouter contains a “weather server”, reached via NetRomX service number 16. This server reports the weather from the closest source to that node.

If the argument to the WX command is another XRouter that's in the local nodes table, the weather information is fetched from the distant node's weather server, via the Packet Network.

For example WX KIDDER returns this:

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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