[TowerTalk] Weather Stations that don't transmit near the 70 cm band?

Martin Flynn maflynn at theflynn.org
Mon Sep 19 16:48:32 EDT 2022


All depends on the your budget - I'm using a Vaisala WXT series sensor.  
Communications are serial over 800+ feet of (well grounded and surge 
suppressed) cable

Speaks RS-232,RS-485, RS-422, and SDI-12 using SDI-12, ASCII automatic, 
ASCII polled, and NMEA 0183 with query option.

On 9/19/2022 2:02 PM, towers at mhtc.net wrote:
> Thanks Art.  Unfortunately, I also operate 900 MHz!  It seems like there are no wired units anymore..........at least not ones that let you locate the station a sizeable distance from your house.
>
> Karl
> WD9BGA
>   
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Art Greenberg (art at artg.tv)
> Date: 09/19/22 12:52
> To:towertalk at contesting.com
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Weather Stations that don't transmit near the 70 cm band?
>
> The Ambient Weather Falcon and its family of accessory sensors use 915MHz.
>
> I have a Falcon and I'm not entirely happy with it, so I'm not
> recommending it. I only mention it as "proof of existence", which is at
> least a suggestion that there may be others that also use 915MHz.
>
> --
> Art Greenberg
> WA2LLN
> art at artg.tv
>
>
> On 9/19/22 13:48,towers at mhtc.net  wrote:
>> Adding to the question, are there any that do NOT transmit in the 440 vicinity?  My YL bought me a wireless wx station and I had to return it, as it sent data bursts every few seconds that tore up my 70cm weak signal station.
>>
>> 73
>> Karl
>> WD9BGA
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>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: n1bkb--- via TowerTalk (towertalk at contesting.com)
>> Date: 09/19/22 12:36
>> To:TowerTalk at contesting.com
>> Subject: [TowerTalk] Weather Stations ( sort of off topic)
>>
>> Early this year I bought a Sainlogic WS0310 ....
>> Reasonable price, all the essential functions, works well, good software, wireless... 80-ft between the solar powered transmitter mounted on a 10-ft PVC pole near the base of my tower and the display on the wall in my radio room.Internet connection to Weather Underground so I can check it from anywhere I've got Internet service.
>> 73, Steve, N1BKB
>>      On Monday, September 19, 2022 at 07:52:52 AM PDT, Christian Kennedy<chris at af6ap.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 19/09/22 00:30, Artek Manuals wrote:
>>> Models recommended ? Models to avoid ? and Immunity to interference
>>> from high power HF RF fields...8^)
>> +1 for the wireless Vantage Pro 2.  I've had one for the better part of
>> two decades and it's never complained; a few months back I discovered
>> that Davis sells a PM kit with everything that could possibly wear (but
>> in my case didn't, including a new anemometer sender.  When I discovered
>> the new anemometer sender didn't fit mine, they sent an entire new assembly.
>>
>> Currently it talks to a Weatherlink Live that publishes data to various
>> aggregators, as well as Davis' own weather map; a second wireless suite
>> reports data from the greenhouse.
>>
>> Not inexpensive, but from my experience, pretty much bulletproof
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Chris
>>
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