This issue appears to be more an FAA issue, not NWS... apparently the Miller Field ASOS is out of whack.U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration 800 Independence Avenue, SW Washington, DC 20591 (866) tell-FAA ((866) 835-5322)Randy is acting within his provence as a volunteer, and a person concerned with accuracy. Just as we will flag or temporarily block a stream because of quality, he opts because of Data. Both sets of reasons are valid. Bad data being most dangerous to the public. All the streams on NWROrg, whether originating from our servers \ direct from the provider \ or from a third party source, are relayed from volunteers, who operate within their own conscience. We hate losing Randy, as he is one of the Core Group of original providers and supporters of this project.. from day one, when when this community arose to mitigate the infamous Weather Undeerground debacle. And we respect his reasons.
However Tbh we have people who haven't been updating the sight lately as there are 2 new streams which haven't been acknowledged. College station texasand Monroe Louisiana.
Streams are normally added or modified with the reception of a form available on the website. We have no "Add Stream" form for College Station, however Monroe has been active for some time. What are you referring to? At one time we had a College Station stream, but it dropped off the list many months ago.. no transmissions...
Activity occurs in spurts and drips:
Yesterday we confirmed and added Ladner Wyoming. Kirk used to be 'Canton OH" and re-located to Wyoming sometime ago... and back in operation in an area previously uncovered. Even as this is typed, a stream submission was received, and an alternate stream for Sacremento CA was just added to the station list, and an initial QRA summaary forwarded to the provider,, as we try to do with new streams.
...and we have a couple of 'new startup' attempts with some issues we're working with...
Qualifying, confirming, adding a station to the list is a multi-step process initially. You'd be surprised at the 'spam-type' submissions we receive once in awhile, which appear valid, but aren't. Each has to be checked.
Checking all stream Quality points 'on audit' usually means a volunterr has to dedicate about a half day or so to browse through them... Third party, or direct streams, can be more tedious than those pointing to our WxRadio DynDns server, which is fairly quick and easy. Also a provider using the proper form submission to inform us of issues, whatever, helps a lot
Like the Volunteer Providers, maintenece of the NWROrg site is performed by volunteers.. both the station lists, and the QRA servers. The expensive IceCast Hosting is donated by Chris, another volunteer, Like all volunteers, we have other facets in our lives.
We agree that one area of the NWROrg needs upgrading and correction... that's the hazards page... a very tedius and time consuming construction... doesn't need to be, but it's the best we could do at the time, and ite's virtually all manual input and construct.
Like Randy, it's up to each provider to provide quality and accurate streams. When faced with issues such as Randy's source 'data', and the apparent inability or unwillingness of the originating WFO to resolve it... well... ?