CWOP Information for EW5460 (E5460) in Alpharetta, GA, US

The following information is known about EW5460. If you think that any information is incorrect, then please follow the instructions for correcting that data item.

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Registered Location

Latitude: 34° 7' 29" N (deg min sec), 34.1247° (decimal), 3407.48N (LORAN)
Longitude: 84° 12' 16" W (deg min sec), -84.2045° (decimal), 08412.27W (LORAN)
Elevation: 320 metres (1051 feet) -- validated against 318 metres (1043 feet) from Geonames
Location: Alpharetta, GA, US
County: Forsyth, GA
Forecast Office: Atlanta (FFC)
Weather station Manager/Operator: Michael
Station type/software: Davis Vantage Pro 2/Vue with Weatherlink-Live

The site location should be at the mark shown -- or very close.

If the displayed location (or elevation) of the weather observing location is incorrect, please drag the marker to the right location (or click in the right location), and then send the updated information. Please note that we are trying to spot either the Stevenson Screen (or equivalent) or the location where the barometric readings are taken.

NOTE: The Registered Location is the location that the station owner provided when they signed up with CWOP. Show location history.

Date	Latitude	Longitude	Elevation	Name
2014-07-07	34.1247	-84.2047	284	Alpharetta, GA US
2014-07-11	34.1249	-84.2042	319	Alpharetta, GA US
2014-10-04	34.1249	-84.2042	319	Alpharetta, US
2014-10-05	34.1249	-84.2042	319	Alpharetta, GA, US

The position of the clicked point on the map is:

The position of the 'EW5460' marker on the map is:

Latitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)
Longitude: dummy (deg min sec), dummy (decimal), dummy (LORAN)

There are no photographs of the station. If you are the site operator and have pictures of this location, then please email them to e5460@photo.gladstonefamily.net.

Picture Submission

There are two ways to submit pictures. If you are a flickr user, then see the flickr section below. Otherwise you can simply email the pictures as follows:

Email the pictures to e5460@photo.gladstonefamily.net.
If you use a smartphone that embeds the GPS coordinates in the pictures, then you can send any picture of a weather station to gps@photo.gladstonefamily.net and it will be associated with the correct station automatically.

Flickr Upload

Uploading picktures to flickr.com is easy. If you do not have a free flickr account, then you need to create one. Just go to flickr and click the 'Create your account' button. You can use a google account if you have one.

Once logged in, click on 'Upload Photos & Video'. Next click on 'Choose Photos and Videos', and walk through the process to upload your pictures. They will automatically be resized appropriately.

After the upload is complete, it will ask you to add titles, tags and descriptions. The key step is to add tags as follows:

wxtagged -- this indicates that this picture is of a weather station or surrounding area
wx:cwop=e5460 -- this indicates the site of which this is a picture
wxstation -- add this tag if the picture includes the weather station.

If you had to create your account, then you must upload at least five pictures. It will also take longer for your pictures to appear (a week or so). Otherwise, the pictures should appear after 24-48 hours.

You can try to find photographs from the area surrounding the site marker by clicking on Find nearby photographs. (There are some) (There are none) (There may be some) (Automatically loaded if any)

APRS Status

Your data is flowing into findu.com, but no weather data is being received from findu.com.

A recently received report from this station was

EW5460>APRS,TCPXX*,qAX,CWOP-7:@122145z3430.04N/08608.46W_173/004g010t076r000p000P000h23b10112L....DsWLL

If this is not a weather report, then your station may not be transmitting weather reports, and this may be the problem. Check the recent reports at findu.com to see if any look like weather reports.

Neighboring Stations

This is a list of stations that are close to this station.

You can also subscribe to an RSS feed to tell you when new stations come online in this area. Choose either within 100 miles or 250 miles . For stations covered by your Forecast Office: Atlanta (FFC) .

Site	Distance		Location
W4GAP	3.9 miles	South	Alpharetta, GA, US (lat 34.0683°, long -84.2027°, altitude 331 metres) (data present)
EW7107	5.6 miles	North	Cumming, GA, US (lat 34.2048°, long -84.2132°, altitude 336 metres) (data present)
FW6766	7.4 miles	West	Alpharetta, GA, US (lat 34.0963°, long -84.3284°, altitude 341 metres) (data present)
GW5816	8.4 miles	Southwest	ALPHARETTA, GA, US (lat 34.0122°, long -84.2615°, altitude 312 metres) (data present)
AB4CZ-1	9.4 miles	South	Peachtree Corners, GA, US (lat 33.9922°, long -84.2378°, altitude 286 metres) (data present)
GW1114	12.9 miles	Southwest	ROSWELL, GA, US (lat 34.0427°, long -84.4062°, altitude 313 metres) (data present)
FW7257	13.0 miles	Southeast	Lawrenceville, GA, US (lat 33.9827°, long -84.0558°, altitude 304 metres) (data present)
GW4221	13.4 miles	Southeast	LAWRENCEVILLE, GA, US (lat 33.9885°, long -84.0393°, altitude 330 metres) (data present)
EW0235	14.1 miles	South	Woodstock, GA, US (lat 33.9335°, long -84.2877°, altitude 312 metres) (data present)
KG4WIV	14.7 miles	West	Woodstock, GA, US (lat 34.1062°, long -84.4603°, altitude 281 metres) (data present)

Location Formats

The location is shown in three different formats. Each of these is used in some software, and is shown on some websites.

Degrees Minutes Seconds: VWS/VWSAPRS, WeatherLink 5.5, WeatherLink (5.2-5.4), WeatherView (Linux)

Decimal degrees: FreeWX, WeatherView32 (PC application)

LORAN: WeatherDisplay, WUHU, Henriksen WServer

Resources

CWOP Home: This describes the whole CWOP program and has a large amount of useful information.

CWOP Siting Guide (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Another CWOP Guide (PDF): This is another guide to siting and operating a CWOP station. This is a must-read document.

Urban Siting and Operations (PDF): This is a guide to siting and operating a CWOP station in an urban environment.

APRS WX Message format: This describes the actual format of the messages transmitted that carry WX information.

WXQC Mailing List: This is a mailing list where data quality issues are discussed. Assistance with software configuration can often be found here.

Topo Map Reading Guide: How to read USGS topographic maps, with a good section on reading contours.

Geographically nearby web pages: Use Geourl to find web pages that deal with locations geographically close to this site.

Overall website comments, problems etc to Philip Gladstone
Page layout last modified Sunday, 28 February 2016
Questions for this weather station owner/operator to Michael
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