Marc R. O'Leary
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I hate to be the one to say this, but if you can't afford $10 for a year of RadarScope, you may want to reconsider your chase range and funnel some of that gas money to support. Or don't chase.
Decent Radar Software (That's Free)
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Ryan Giroux
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I can't chase till covid is over and I'm out of college. I need to get financialy stable after that and then I might take the plunge to the midwest. I'd love to chase but It will be about a decade until I'm able to. Where I'm at in Ontario we get 1 -2 tornados a year and lots of thunderstorms. I do love tracking and forcasting weather.
I tried Awips/Cave last year, it did look pretty cool, but the system I put it on really couldn't handle it, so I gave up.
That wXL23 shown above looks very similar to the android wX app I use ( see this thread )
There's so many different options of stuff to view that you'd really need a bunch of time & a long multi-page manual to use it all.
Some of the stuff has never worked, and a few others have quit working fairly recently...but for the price I certainly can't complain.
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I personally won't pay for *any* downloads/streaming/etc , so gotta with the free stuff if I want a weather app .lol.
That wXL23 shown above looks very similar to the android wX app I use ( see this thread )
There's so many different options of stuff to view that you'd really need a bunch of time & a long multi-page manual to use it all.
Some of the stuff has never worked, and a few others have quit working fairly recently...but for the price I certainly can't complain.
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I personally won't pay for *any* downloads/streaming/etc , so gotta with the free stuff if I want a weather app .lol.
Ryan Giroux
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I tryed Cave also. My computer turned into a power point while running it
B Bogdon
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I have AWIPS2 (CAVE) installed on my computer (Windows 11). It was working great until this last week when it decided to stop working. It constantly crashes now. I do not know how to fix it let alone get in touch with the programs creator. In my opinion, AWIPS is useless junk now.
rdale
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AWIPS II is clearly the best overall weather analysis tool available these days.
I'd classify that as a slight step above "Junk."
Did you uninstall and reinstall? Are you using the old version or the latest beta? Does your PC meet the minimum requirements? What server are you using?
I'd classify that as a slight step above "Junk."
Did you uninstall and reinstall? Are you using the old version or the latest beta? Does your PC meet the minimum requirements? What server are you using?
B Bogdon
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I said in my comment that I uninstall and reinstalled it, but to no avail. I had downloaded the lastest beta and I have Windows 11. I can't remember what the server is.
rdale
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Could you help me see where you commented about uninstalling it?
In any event - AWIPSII is running 24/7 on my machine and it's working wonderfully.
B Bogdon
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I am also getting an EDEX NOT INSTALLED message. I have never used EDEX. I don't know why I would now anyway. EDEX is for Linux and don't have that. AWIPSII has become useless for me.
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rdale
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That means you are trying to connect to the EDEX server on your machine. Don't do that, since you don't have EDEX installed.
Do connect to the EDEX server that it defaults to, and that the instructions tell you to.
Do connect to the EDEX server that it defaults to, and that the instructions tell you to.
B Bogdon
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The only other option it gives me is localhost and when I do that it crashes me out.
rdale
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Then you installed it all wrong. Uninstall. Then go step by step through Unidata's installation guide for the beta.
B Bogdon
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I uninstalled and then reinstalled it through the beta. I got it to work now, BUT, the options under Radar are blank. For example, 0.5 Reflectivity does not have numbers, just blank dash lines.
rdale
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Because you aren't a WFO. Select one of the submenus.
B Bogdon
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I had no issues with Radar a couple weeks ago when it worked. I don't understand why I would need WFO now.
