Cumulus Support

hi, i am new to all this, firstly my twitter is giving this out
g7hej 08/09/10 07:13:52 10.7 89 9.0 0.0 1.6 180 0.0 0.0 1001.6 S 0 mph C mb mm 1.1 +0.2 23.7 23.7 14.7 13.3 60 10.7 +0.1 12.0 00:01 9.1 04:10 0.7 i know what it means but my friends dont can i set it to send a different format. I also trying to set my lat/log but i have taken it from uiview software and it adjusts cause it a different format, 3rdly i have a domain name g7hej.org with easyspace what do i do next for webpage. thank you.

regards graham in the centre of blackpool.

Hi Graham

Welcome to the forum.

Firstly, regarding Twitter, you can customise the output to anything you wish. You need to modify a text file in the Cumulus folder and use the necessary Cumulus 'webtags'. More info on the wiki.... http://wiki.sandaysoft.com/a/Twitter

What have you put in as you lat/log?

For your domain name, you need to find someone to host it (i.e. offer webspace with the name). Easyspace probably do a package

Hi this is taken from uiview so 5349.81N 00302.47W and cumulus keeps changing so it seems different format. i live :- http://www.findu.com/cgi-bin/find.cgi?call=G7HEJ this is correct as uiview forwards on aprs. looking forward to website.
regards graham

Enter your co-ordinates as

Latitude
Deg=53
min=83
sec=01
N

Longitude
Deg=3
min=04
sec=11
W


If you want to be less precise (i.e. not show exactly where your house/station is), change the "sec" to 00 in each which is enough to be near-by but not exact

Did you get your Twitter sorted out? That's a realtime.txt file that you have quoted there, which is a bit of an odd thing to be tweeting - I'm not even sure how you're doing that. The default format is much more readable; see here - http://twitter.com/sandayweather (ignore the fact that I'm not tweeting at the moment). Or as David says, you can customise it.

I have been on twitter for a while now. I dont tweet much just allow Cumulus to post the messages. I do like the new bit which shows your location. But on twitter it shows up as "Carlisle" which is 10miles to my west. I would prefer it to say "Brampton" my home town. How would you go about changing it ? tks

http://twitter.com/#!/bramptonweather

Paul C wrote:But on twitter it shows up as "Carlisle" which is 10miles to my west. I would prefer it to say "Brampton" my home town. How would you go about changing it ?

You can't change it; it's the nearest place to you that Twitter knows about (it uses your co-ordinates given to it by Cumulus). Twitter says my location is "Orkney Islands, Orkney Islands" (so good they named it twice).