[UK-CONTEST] Tower Weather Monitoring Ideas?

[David Ferrington, M0XDF]

Occurred to me, shouldn't you be monitoring the wind speed towards the  
top of the tower?
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73 de M0XDF

On 6 Dec 2009, at 19:04, GU4YOX wrote:
> A little off topic but there will be someone here who may be able to  
> help.
> We've had awful high winds again here in GU all day and I thought  
> that I had
> better start monitoring local wind speed/weather to be sure that I'm  
> keeping
> the tower up at safe heights. Does anyone recommend a really good UK  
> weather
> monitoring station that is worth its money that is not wireless but  
> wired to
> the sensors? I'll mount this on the home chimney stack some 30  
> metres away
> where I have a spare chimney with stainless brackets etc ready for  
> such a
> device. Post here if it's of use to others, otherwise just drop me a  
> mail
> offline. I'd like a black surround display if possible in the shack  
> to match
> existing kit.