====== Basic Information on APRS-WX Rubric ======

===== General Information =====

DAPNET offers wx-messages imported from aprs.fi on a rubric called “APRS-WX“. This rubric is divided into sub-rubrics to realize a kind of localization based on the corresponding transmitter-group associated to the transmitter-group.

===== Technical Information =====

The wx-messages are provided by an external service fetching the information from aprs.fi and building up individual messages for the rubrics to push them finally into DAPNET.

As a first start the service provides information from German wx-stations into the country-groups like “dl-sl” for Saarland, “dl-by” for Bavaria and so on. Each localized rubric is able to carry up to 10 messages that means up to 10 wx-stations could be feed into this.

As a planning for the future it would be realized to feed wx into regional sub-groups for bigger countries like Bavaria, to get a better feed for bigger regions.

Switzerland is segmented into so-called [[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grossregionen_der_Schweiz|major regions]] which are based on the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenclature_of_Territorial_Units_for_Statistics|NUTS-2 scheme]]. Each of these major regions can be subscribed to and is supplied with weather information by the corresponding cantons. 

===== How to get a WX-Station listed =====

If you want to have a wx-station from aprs.fi listed within the rubric “APRS-WX” just open a general-purpose ticket via the ticket system at https://support.hampager.de.

We would add it as soon as possible to the corresponding rubric based on the QTH of the wx-station.