• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

New OKC Micronet placefile

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At the request of a GRx user, I was able to rather quickly add an OKC Micronet placefile to my suite of placefiles available for free for GRx users. The new placefile can be access at http://grlevel3.tornadocentral.com/OKCmicronet.txt . I'm working out a couple of issues, however. I'm still messing around with the 'threshold' parameter, which dictates the "zoom level" at which the data are shown on GR. Of course, the micronet has much greater density in terms of observing sites, which makes the plotting of them rather difficult and necessitates that the data not be shown unless GR is zoomed in quite a bit. In addition, the data file provided by OCS only gives lat and lon to the hundredths digit. There are a few sites in downtown OKC that require the lat and lon to higher specificity; otherwise, a handful of sites get plotted on the same lat/lon pair. I'll try to email OCS to see if they can include the lat/lon to the thousandths digit to allow for more accurate plotting of those downtown OKC sites.

I want to change the subdomain to grlevelx instead of grlevel3 since all my placefiles work equally well in GR2 and GR2AE as they do in GR3. However, I fear that many will not take notice of the change, and I'll get deluged by users asking why the placefiles no longer work correctly. So, I'll keep all placefiles on the current subdomain for the time being.
 
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