[OZAPRS] Suggestion weather station

Ray Wells vk2tv at exemail.com.au
Wed Feb 9 15:08:52 EST 2011


Spiders appear to be just one problem with the rain gauge in these 
units; wind causing false tipping and mechanical problems are other 
identified issues. Most seem to be fixable - but why should you have to?

The links below lead to user 
comments/observations/fixes/modifications/software - a general mish-mash 
of information on these weather stations that originate from Fine Offset 
Electronics in China, http://foshk.en.alibaba.com/



http://www.lemis.com/grog/programs/WH1080.php

http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2884 
<http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2884>

http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2774 
<http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2774>

http://www.digitalham.co.uk/equipment/Watson_W8681.php

http://wiki.meteohub.de/Introduction

http://sm0fob.blogspot.com/2009_02_11_archive.html

Ray vk2tv

On 07/02/11 19:50, Michael Wain wrote:
> I have been running the Electus XC0348 ( the same as the Altronics 
> X7062) , and yes the rain buckets stop to work 6 months after 
> installing, pulled apart the bucket unit and found a spider had set up 
> home inside, and the buckets inside where covered in cob webs, clean 
> the cob webs out, evicted the spider, spay surface spider spay inside 
> the unit, and never looked at it again, to this day it still working 
> and that was 18 months ago.
>
> http://www1.electusdistribution.com.au/productView.asp?ID=11333&CATID=Search%20all%20Categories&keywords=weather+station&SPECIAL=&form=KEYWORD&SUBCATIDI 
> use Cumulus software with this weather station, and Ui-view32 
> connected toa tnc. works well, vk3hau-10 .Yours sincerely Michael Wain 
> - VK3HAU EGARC Inc. Publicity Officer.Ph : 613 - 51411650----- 
> Original Message -----From: "Peter Bye" <vk2mpj at internode.on.net>To: 
> <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 6:36 PMSubject: 
> Re: [OZAPRS] Suggestion weather station>I personally use one of these 
> units, and Cumulus software.  It works withAPRS, WXUnderground, 
> Twitter, PWS and FTP.>> I am having issues with the rain bucket at the 
> moment.  Need to pull itdown and see if I can get it working again.>> 
> de> VK2MPJ>> On 7/02/2011 07:39, vk5ex.andrew at gmail wrote:>>>> Can 
> you use this wx station for aprs use easily?  Is it compatible withany 
> aprs software ?>>>> Regards .. Andrew .. VK5EX>>>>>> ----- Original 
> Message ----- From: "Vasily Matveev" <ra1amw at mail.ru>>> To: 
> "Australian APRS Users" <ozaprs at aprs.net.au>>> Sent: Monday, February 
> 07, 2011 6:42 AM>> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Suggestion weather 
> station>>>>>>> Can't comment working the rain gauge for now due to 
> minus temp. outside.>>> The other parameters shows pretty good.>>> 
> Anyway this WX station is good in the ratio  price and quality.>>>>>> 
> Vasily RA1AMW>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Mon, 07 Feb 2011 06:29:14 +1100 письмо от 
> Ray Wells<vk2tv at exemail.com.au>:>>>>>>> Those units come out of China 
> (what doesn't!) under a variety ofbrands.>>>> I was very interested, 
> especially at my buying price, but lost interest>>>> due to the high 
> number of complaints on various forums about the rain>>>> gauge 
> mechanics and accuracy. I'd certainly never on-sell one; a return>>>> 
> would be almost guaranteed.>>>>>>>> Ray vk2tv>>>>>>>>>>>> On 07/02/11 
> 04:12, Vasily Matveev wrote:>>>> > Hi!>>>> >>>>> > Very good WX 
> station and easy to run for APRS.:>>>> >>>>> > 
> http://www.altronics.com.au/index.asp?area=item&id=X7062>>>> >>>>> > 
> 73 Vasily RA1AMW>>>> > St.Petersburg>>>> > RUSSIA>>>> >>>>> >>>>> > 
> Sun, 6 Feb 2011 22:30:26 +1000 письмо от Andrew>>>> 
> Rich<vk4tec at tech-software.net>:>>>> >>>>> >> Home use and aprs>>>> 
> >>>>>> >> Sent from my iPhone>>>> >> Andrew Rich>>>> >>>>>> >> On 
> 06/02/2011, at 22:26, "Gordon>>>> Taylor"<gordon.t at internode.on.net> 
> >> wrote:>>>> >>>>>> >>> Andrew,>>>> >>>     Do you just want it for 
> APRS data or for home use as well.>>>> >>>>>>> >>> I have a Davis 
> Vantage Pro 2 and use Weather Display software.>>>> >>>>>>> >>> Most 
> software packages have provision for an APRS text file to>>>> 
> upload>>>> >>> weather data to say UI-View.>>>> >>>>>>> >>> 
> Regards,>>>> >>> Gordo VK4VP>>>> >>>>>>> >>> -----Original 
> Message----->>>> >>> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au>>>> 
> [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] >>> On>>>> >>> Behalf Of Andrew 
> Rich>>>> >>> Sent: Sunday, 6 February 2011 22:11>>>> >>> To: 
> Australian APRS Users>>>> >>> Subject: [OZAPRS] Suggestion weather 
> station>>>> >>>>>>> >>> Anyone suggest a weather station for use with 
> aprs ?>>>> >>>>>>> >>> Sent from my iPhone>>>> >>> Andrew Rich>>>> >>> 
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