[OZAPRS] weather stations

[Peter Mudie]

Hi Chris,

I use a Lacrosse WS2310, and Weather-display software.
www.mudiefamily.org 
have a look at the website, it has a small table for PDAs, 1 minutely 
weather, and a live flash applet that is about 10-20 seconds behind real 
time updating every 10 seconds.

The WS23** weather stations are a budget model, and have poor comms 
interfaces as they are designed for battery low power operation.  I bought

it from weather down under using their website they were good to deal
with.

I beefed mine up before installing it, by taking the 3V signalling it
uses, 
and converting it to RS232 levels, and protecting the cable runs with 
resistor/ zener diode networks.

I still get occasional comms errors on the link between the indoor unit
and 
the outdoor unit.  I don't use wireless mode as its update speed is too 
slow and it gets blocked by on site 70cm repeaters.

I can tell you more about how the system is set up off the list if you are

interested.

Peter.




At 21:56 4/10/2005 +0800, Chris Hill wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I'm interested in getting a weather station capability for my APRS setup,
>and so are at least two other stations here in VK6...  we just need to
find
>the best value for money product.
>
>A quick search has found these possibilities:
>
>1.  The WMR-928N
>
>$725 from DSE
>http://www.dse.com.au/cgi-bin/dse.storefront/en/product/Y5195
>
>$799 from Weather Down Under
>http://www.weatherdownunder.net.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath
=46
>_33&products_id=215
>
>
>
>2.  The LaCrosse WS-2300 or WS-2308
>
>$439 from Weather Down Under
>http://www.weatherdownunder.net.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath
=46
>_32&products_id=292
>
>
>
>(BTW, it appears that the remote sensors use 433MHz to transfer data to
the
>central unit).
>
>
>
>Does anyone have any better suggestions?  Even $439 seems like a lot of
>money to pay for this functionality...  has anyone had any success at
>grabbing the necessary data from the cheaper (eg $160) units that don't
have
>inbuilt RS-232?
>
>
>
>Any suggestions gratefully received!
>
>
>73
>
>
>Chris
>vk6kch
>
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
>Behalf Of Richard Hoskin
>Sent: Saturday, 1 October 2005 8:29 PM
>To: 'John Elliott'; 'VK / ZL APRS Users'
>Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] weather stations
>
>
>Hi John,
>
>The most popular and probably cheapest weather station to use is the
>WMR-918/928/968 series from Oregon Scientific. If you want a more robust
>system then go for a DAVIS but be prepared to pay well over a $1000 for
it.
>(DSE have the WMR928N for $725 cat# Y5195)
>
>Software that supports both APRS (UI-View) and the Oregon Scientific Wx
>stations can be downloaded from http://www.freewx.net/
>
>The wx station connects to the PC using an RS232 port and you will need
to
>run the PC 24*7. The PC dose all the wx data logging etc. and APRS
>interfacing. If you have a web page FreeWX can auto update it with the
>latest wx from your wx station too.
>
>Cheers
>Richard
>VK3JFK
>
>
>
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