[TowerTalk] Wind Guages

[Pete Smith]

At 12:06 AM 1/17/00 -0500, Dick Green wrote:
>
>Some weather stations restrict the length of the cable between the sensor
>and the display. I use a Radio Shack weather station that restricts the
>cable length to about 40 feet. It's a good unit (really made by Oregon (?)
>Scientific), but the cable length restriction forced me to put the wind
>sensor on the roof. I think the Peet units let you use cables of much longer
>lengths. There are also units on the market that use and RF link. I think
>Peet and Davis both have those. A friend who was using an older Davis unit
>with a cable link said it was very susceptible to RFI and he had to purchase
>a special filter kit. I'm pretty sure Peet has a web site.

I have the wired Davis unit, and it is bothered by RFI when I transmit on
some bands.  They want a lot for their filter box, but it looks to me as if
their standard junction box can be opened to permit RF bypassing, so I
think I'll try that instead.  They do have an RF link system, but like all
their accessories it is not cheap, and I suspect it would also need special
attention in the RFI department.

73, Pete Smith N4ZR
n4zr@contesting.com 

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