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Weather station on the property · updates every few seconds
Weather at Jerrawa
Live conditions measured at the Jerrawa station — observations from the property rather than a forecast for a nearby town. Below them, the latest Yass forecast says what's coming.
HereJerrawa, right now
Temperature
--°C
Feels like -- °C
Wind · from --
--km/h
Gust -- km/h · max today --
Humidity
--%
Dew point -- °C
Rain since 9am
--mm
Rate -- mm/h
Rain event
--mm
Daily total -- mm
Pressure
--hPa
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Solar radiation
--W/m²
Sunshine today -- h
UV index
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Rainfall
This week -- mm
This month -- mm
This year -- mm
Station: LOADINGUpdated: --
NextWhat the nearby Yass forecast says is coming
NSW Rural Fire Service · Southern Ranges fire weather district
Fire danger and local incidents
Fire danger and Total Fire Ban information for the Southern Ranges fire weather district, together with incidents reported near Jerrawa.
Fire danger information is currently unavailable or stale. Missing data must not be interpreted as meaning there is no Total Fire Ban.
Today
Fire danger ratingTotal Fire Ban today
Waiting for NSW RFS data
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Tomorrow
Fire danger ratingTotal Fire Ban tomorrow
Waiting for NSW RFS data
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Fire weather district: Southern Ranges
Councils: --
Source: NSW Rural Fire Service
Data received: --
Councils: --
Source: NSW Rural Fire Service
Data received: --
Important: Fire danger ratings and Total Fire Ban information shown here are reproduced from NSW Rural Fire Service data for convenience. Conditions and declarations can change. Always check official NSW RFS and Hazards Near Me information for current warnings, restrictions and emergency advice. In an emergency call 000.
Nearby incidents
UNKNOWN
Waiting for incident data
Two independent detectors · not an official warning service
Lightning around Jerrawa
Lightning is monitored locally by the Ecowitt detector at the station and regionally using Xweather. They measure different things, so their numbers are shown separately and never added together.
At Jerrawa
Ecowitt detector on the property. Reports distance only, not direction.
Strike count
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Last distance
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Last strike
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Last detected distance from the station
0 km10203040 km
Last detected: --
Region
Xweather lightning network · wider area
Recent strikes
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Closest
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Direction
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Last 30 min
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Last 60 min
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Closest, 30 min
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Waiting for regional lightning data.
ADS-B receiver at the station
What's flying over Jerrawa?
Aircraft received by the local ADS-B station. The full aircraft page shows the live map; this is the quick view from the station.
50100150200 km
Amateur station VK2ADG · NSWGRN scanner
What's on the radio?
The amateur station, its digital modes, and calls received by the scanner system. The scanner displays calls without audio; browser audio is only enabled after you choose it.
Amateur station
VK2ADG
The amateur radio station at Jerrawa. Equipment includes a Yaesu FTDX3000D and FT-847. Most HF operation is FT8, along with antenna, radio and digital-mode experimentation.
APRS
iGate + data
A receive-only Dire Wolf APRS iGate operates from the station, along with APRS trackers and weather-station reporting. Selected NSW RFS and Queensland fire incidents are also published as APRS objects.
Winlink
Winlink Express + VARA HF
Winlink Express and VARA HF are operational for radio email and messaging over HF. A future project is an RMS Trimode HF gateway, potentially adding PACTOR capability.
DMR
Hotspot
DMR digital voice is available through the station hotspot, providing another digital communications option alongside the HF and APRS systems.
Scanner
Trunk Recorder + Node-RED
The Jerrawa scanner receives NSWGRN traffic using Trunk Recorder. Node-RED handles the calls and feeds the web scanner below, including call information and audio.
▶ Scanner — Goulburn Radio Scan
Connecting...
Select channels, then click Enable Audio. This click unlocks browser audio.
Now playing
■ SCANNING... WAITING FOR TRAFFIC
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Queue: 0 calls waiting
0 calls this session
Energy & resilience · live metering at the property
What is the property actually using?
The number on a solar system is only its rated peak capacity. Weather, time of day, season and what the property is using all matter. These are the live figures from Jerrawa.
Solar now
--kW
Waiting for live data.
Property load
--kW
Total measured property demand.
Grid
--kW
Waiting for live data.
Waiting for the first live energy update.
Solar used here
--kW
Solar being consumed on the property now.
What does “property load” include?
This is a working rural property rather than a single household. The total includes the house, workshop, communications and monitoring equipment, air conditioning and other electrical loads.
Some individual areas are separately monitored, but not every circuit is. Those individual figures are therefore not presented here as though they should add up to the property total.
Energy: WAITINGUpdated: --
From the station
Builds, experiments and things learned
Some of the systems here are useful, some are experiments and some started because I wondered whether I could make something work. This is where those projects get written up.
About
Why does this place exist?
Jerrawa.org is the public side of VK2ADG, a privately operated amateur radio, weather, aircraft and monitoring station at Jerrawa NSW.
It grew from an interest in radio, electronics, computers, weather, aircraft, automation and generally building things to see what happens. In other words, a hobby that got slightly out of hand.
Node-RED is a major part of the station and acts as the glue between many of the systems here — weather, lightning, APRS, incidents, scanner feeds, MQTT, automation and publishing data to this website.
Yes, I use AI.
I use AI extensively and I'm quite happy to say so. I generally know what I want a system to do, what data I have, what result I expect and how I'm going to decide whether it works. I don't particularly want to learn another programming language every time an idea needs a different tool.
AI helps turn ideas into working software, but the human still needs to understand the problem, question the result and test what was built.
There's nothing magical about this.Most of the hardware and software used here is readily available. It is a collection of equipment, software, experimentation and far too many ideas. If this sort of thing interests you, you can build it too.
AI doesn't decide what I want to build. I do.AI is one of the tools I use to build it.
When hobbies escape into work
Some of this follows me to work.
The station is a hobby. The practical experience behind it also crosses into the work we do.