• 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.

Reporting Numbers

Mike, I'm at work right now (and logged on via Tapatalk) but I'll get on the laptop when I get home and send an email so we can start to get a handle on how we're going to do this. The easy part will be the NWS offices. The Ham repeaters may be more tedious but I need to play with a program on my computer that might make that a lot easier.
 
I would encourage everyone to use SpotterNetwork vs. mPing as SpotterNetwork gets it to more places and makes it more useful in warning operations faster.
 
John, I've been using mPing for a couple of years now. I've always had the reports go right where they need to go, which is mainly to the NWS. Using actual SN on a mobile device is very cumbersome trying to locate where you are, write the report, and hope the data gets your report out there. I use SN only to put out my location for the NWS since they call me quite a bit.
 
John and Marcus, I was going to say the same thing about SN on a mobile device. I know there's a few apps on the android platform, but accessing SN on a iOS device is a pain as you have use the non-mobile friendly website. I definitely think an iOS SN app is much needed, however I'm no Steve Jobs, so I'm not much help. ;) I haven't used mPing for SVR wx yet, so I can't comment on that end of things.

@Drew T and I are actively working on building the reporting numbers / NWS information list. We're concentrating on the middle of the county at the moment (with storm season starting) and will post more information once we get a good base started.
 
If someone is interested in writing an app for SN, please let me know! I fear mPING may also fall victim to the same issues SN ran in to a few years ago with reporting severe weather information, we'll have to see what happens. Do that many people really want to do reporting on a phone though? Are people leaving laptops faster than I think they are?
 
@Ryan Hickman's post in the Actual Warning Times thread has some good information for this thread as well. He posted a link to the list of NWS numbers that they verify with the NWS. I will be working with the ST admin crew and @Drew T to get this resource posted somewhere in our library of information.

In regards to the SN app, I think there definitely needs to be an iOS client similiar to the one found on the Android platform. I think it would make a lot of lives easier in reporting.

@John Wetter from what I've read / seen lately, I think more and more people are moving away from laptops and going with tablets. I made the move a couple of years ago and haven't looked back. Yes there are times I wish I had the functionality of a laptop, but 99% of the time, my tablet suites me just fine. I made the move to lessen the amount of stuff in my vehicle and to allow me to focus more on the storm and not all the tech.

Mike
 
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