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.
consume_bits would crash with a MatchError when the remaining
bitstring had fewer bits than the group width. Added a guard
clause to stop consuming when insufficient bits remain, matching
how wgrib2 handles trailing padding in packed data sections.
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.
Previously retry: :transient only retried connection errors, not HTTP
429 rate limits. All clients now use a custom retry function that
handles 429, 500, 502, 503, 504 with 5 retries and jittered backoff.
- Defensive grid-to-coordinate resolution in create_qso (case instead of crash on match failure)
- Log warning when Oban weather enqueue fails instead of silently dropping
- Add 30s per-session submission cooldown to prevent rapid-fire submissions
20 attempts with exponential backoff capped at 6 hours ensures
data is eventually fetched even during extended rate limiting or
API outages (~3 days of retrying before giving up).
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.
