And then there is Peet, an often overlooked but simple and reliable
company that has been selling wx systems for many years.Those
participating in the OCRG Coast wx reporting system
(http://www.ocrg.org/telemetry_feed/ocrgwx.html) are all Peet equipped.
All stations feed into the MesoWest system.
I needed a system that would withstand the harsh salt air environment
I'm in and be easy to maintain when necessary. The only con for some is
Peet is not wireless. Mine has been in place since around 2003.
As Kim obliquely points out, Peet, Davis and most of the others are not
those used by NOAA/NWS and other commercial wx reporting companies.
Young and others of the commercial range are far more reliable,
accurate, and expensive.
If one is interested in the NWS standards than you might want to have
FCM-H1-2005, the NOAA Federal Meteorological Handbook on hand, lots of
good information.
Price is what you pay, value is what you receive.
Don W7WLL
(Yachats/AS531 on the above OCRG site)
<http://www.ocrg.org/telemetry_feed/ocrgwx.html>
On 2/25/2019 6:39 PM, Kim Elmore wrote:
I'll add that as a research meteorologist, weather instruments are
sort of a "thing" for me. Davis makes nice instrument sets, but sells
each instrument separately, which makes it all more expensive but much
more flexible in optimal placement. For example, most of us don't live
10 m above the ground and have more interest in air temperature/dew
point at no more than 2 m above the ground.
I have a friend (another ham) that uses an Ambient weather station. It
seems to hold up well and is accurate as any of the others for
temperature, dew point/RH, pressure, and wind-speed/direction.
My Vantage Vue needed to have the anemometer element replaced after a
few years because the bearings wore out, nut its very easy to do.
Some good reviews can be found at http://weatherstationexpert.com/.
Similar reviews may also be found at
https://www.weatherstationadvisor.com/.
Should money be no object and should you insist on research quality
instrumentation, we use R. M. Young instruments for most of our field
projects. And you thought high-end transceivers were expensive...
Kim N5OP
On 2/25/2019 6:54 PM, Kim Elmore wrote:
Davis makes good instruments. I have a Davis Vantage Vue: wireless
spread spectrum. Needs battery replaced every year or so, but
otherwise pretty tough.
Kim N5OP
"People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long
as the music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
On Feb 25, 2019, at 18:17, Jim Miller <jim@jtmiller.com> wrote:
At my new QTH in Mt Airy MD I've become much more interested in wind
speed
and direction.
It really howls here in general and I'm in the open on a hilltop so
it's
worse here than generally reported.
I'd like to get something I could put out to get a better indication of
what is really happening right at my antennas.
Suggestions welcomed.
73
jim ab3cv
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