Instead of returning "malformed section" on trailing bytes or truncated
sections, attempt to return parsed results. This handles older HRRR
files (2019) that have padding bytes after the last section.
When a local .hgt tile is missing, download it from the public AWS S3
skadi bucket, decompress with zlib, and write to the tiles directory
before retrying the lookup. Falls back to Open-Meteo/OpenTopo APIs if
the download fails.
HTTP 404 means the HRRR data doesn't exist on NOAA S3 (pre-2014
dates, etc.) and will never succeed. Return {:cancel, reason}
instead of {:error, reason} so Oban stops retrying immediately.
Eliminates the external wgrib2 C tool dependency that blocked HRRR
processing. Implements Lambert Conformal projection, simple packing
(Template 5.0), complex packing with spatial differencing (Template 5.3),
and GRIB2 section parsing — enough to extract point values from HRRR
grid data using only Elixir.
Maidenhead grid module converts grid squares to lat/lon coordinates.
Submission form validates grids, bands, modes, and email, computes
positions and distance, then triggers the weather/HRRR/terrain
processing pipeline via Oban.
Fetch elevation data along the path between two stations via the
Open-Meteo Elevation API (with Open-Topo-Data fallback), compute
Fresnel zone clearance, earth bulge, and knife-edge diffraction loss,
and store the results per QSO.
- terrain_profiles table with migration and TerrainProfile schema
- ElevationClient with batched API calls and fallback
- TerrainAnalysis with Fresnel/diffraction physics (ITU-R P.526-15)
- TerrainProfileWorker on Oban :terrain queue
- QsoWeatherEnqueueWorker enqueues terrain jobs automatically
- QSO show page displays verdict badge and collapsible elevation table
- Reorder show page: terrain, soundings, solar, HRRR, surface obs
- Fix Dockerfile wgrib2 build (add cmake dependency)
HRRR provides hourly 3km-resolution atmospheric profiles, filling the
temporal gaps (12-hourly soundings) and spatial gaps (only 9 sounding
stations) in our current weather data.
- Add hrrr_profiles table and hrrr_queued flag on QSOs
- HrrrClient fetches GRIB2 data via HTTP Range requests + wgrib2
- HrrrFetchWorker derives refractivity/ducting params via SoundingParams
- QsoWeatherEnqueueWorker now also enqueues HRRR jobs
- QSO show page displays HRRR section with collapsible profile
- Dockerfile builds wgrib2 from source for production
Adds haversine_km/4 to Radio context and backfill_distances/1 which
calculates distance_km from pos1/pos2 for QSOs missing it. Called
by QsoWeatherEnqueueWorker before enqueueing weather fetches.
Oban cron worker runs every 4 hours, finds QSOs without weather data,
discovers nearby ASOS/sounding stations, and enqueues WeatherFetchWorker
jobs. Migrations run automatically on app start in production.
IEM was returning 503s under 10 concurrent workers. Three fixes:
- Req transient retry with exponential backoff on IEM requests
- WeatherFetchWorker Oban job retries failed ASOS/RAOB fetches 2-3h later
with random jitter to avoid thundering herd
- Import script concurrency reduced 10→5, weather queue capped at 3
Store surface observations (ASOS) and upper-air soundings (RAOB) alongside
QSOs for atmospheric propagation correlation. Three new tables: weather_stations,
surface_observations, and soundings with JSONB profiles and pre-computed derived
parameters (refractivity, gradients, duct detection, stability indices).
Includes IEM API client for historical data import and import script seeded
with 95 ASOS + 9 sounding stations from PropCast coverage area.
