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Haytor observing station is going automatic !

Yes I have just bought a wireless Vantage Pro Davis AWS. Hope to be up and
running as soon as I have built an anemometer mast. So at last I will be able to
measure my wind speeds instead of relying on Admiral Beaufort.

The official climate records will still be done with the manual instruments as
they are mounted in a Met Office standard UPVC Stevenson screen as opposed to
the radiation shield on the Davis. It is going to be very interesting comparing
the two systems.

I would also like to say a big thank you to John Dann and his company Prodata
found at www.weatherstations.co.uk . I ordered my VP on Monday. By Wednesday
afternoon it had been delivered, all present and correct.
A first class service from an excellent and helpful web site and company team.

OK I may well get a tad excited with my [WRs] at times when the weather really
sets in up here - you have been warned.

Also, please don't expect any web displays, I am not on broadband (yet ?) and my
PC is only connected at 38.4K when I dial in, so I haven't purchased the
weatherlink software. But who knows ? :-)

Cheers,

Will.
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" A cup is most useful when it's attached to an anemometer spindle "
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Welcome to the "Anorak's" Will :-)

I'm only jealous you have a VP and yes John Dann continues to give
advice even 4 to 5 years after you bought the gear.

Keith (Southend)

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Weather Home & Abroad
http://www.southendweather.net

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:44:50 +0100, "Will"
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This posting expresses the personal view and opinions of the author.
Something which everyone on this planet should be able to do.
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Haytor observing station is going automatic !

Yes I have just bought a wireless Vantage Pro Davis AWS. Hope to be up and
running as soon as I have built an anemometer mast. So at last I will be able to
measure my wind speeds instead of relying on Admiral Beaufort.

The official climate records will still be done with the manual instruments as
they are mounted in a Met Office standard UPVC Stevenson screen as opposed to
the radiation shield on the Davis. It is going to be very interesting comparing
the two systems.

I would also like to say a big thank you to John Dann and his company Prodata
found at www.weatherstations.co.uk . I ordered my VP on Monday. By Wednesday
afternoon it had been delivered, all present and correct.
A first class service from an excellent and helpful web site and company team.

OK I may well get a tad excited with my [WRs] at times when the weather really
sets in up here - you have been warned.

Also, please don't expect any web displays, I am not on broadband (yet ?) and my
PC is only connected at 38.4K when I dial in, so I haven't purchased the
weatherlink software. But who knows ? :-)

Cheers,

Will.

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:44:50 +0100, Will wrote:

Also, please don't expect any web displays, I am not on broadband
(yet ?) and my PC is only connected at 38.4K when I dial in, so I
haven't purchased the weatherlink software. But who knows ? :-)

Aw, go for it.

Surely your not paying per minute call charges for net access are you?
Looks at header, on Demon, I don't think they do a FRIACO service but
you can use BT Surftime and get fully discounted (aka free calls)
either 24/7 or during the evenings and weekends. I used Eves and
Weekends Surftime with Demon on dialup for years. The BB arrived and I
did the sums and found the you can get unlimited 24/7 free calls for
less than the combined Demon and Surftime subs... Take a peak at
Onetel, who I know have as my 24/7 backup ISP.

Once you get rid of per minute call charges it doesn't matter if you
connect at 300bps or 3Mbps. Apart from if someone wants to use the
phone and you only have one line of course. B-)

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:44:50 +0100, "Will"
wrote:

Haytor observing station is going automatic !

Yes I have just bought a wireless Vantage Pro Davis AWS. Hope to be up and
running as soon as I have built an anemometer mast.

Same here-just bought one but having annoying difficulty getting the
aerial man in as determined to stick the anemometer at the gable end
of a roof and sticking proud by 7 ft or so. I would do it myself but I
want to make sure that the stuff stays up there in whatever weather.
And the box of tricks will go at the base more or less flush with the
roof ridge

I think I am going to have the pole as the same type as on my SKY TV.
The old (working) anemometer( WM11) was strapped on to a excellent al.
pole which is a perfect fit for the white plastic sleeve on which the
an. goes but I suspect the given U bolt is probably not long enough.

When I have got this set up, another one is getting set up here just
west of Dorchester.

There is a hell of a lot of reading with all the lit attached...but I
cannot really take a day off work at the moment.

On Fri, 1 Oct 2004 19:44:50 +0100, "Will"
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Haytor observing station is going automatic !

I forgot to mention that there seems to be a recording station down at
Postbridge. I often visit the site to be honest as my guys train down
on the moor.

Will wrote:

I would also like to say a big thank you to John Dann and his company Prodata
found at www.weatherstations.co.uk . I ordered my VP on Monday. By Wednesday
afternoon it had been delivered, all present and correct.
A first class service from an excellent and helpful web site and company team.

I second this. Excellent advice and service to match. Very rare in this
day and age, particularly with such a large investment.

Also, please don't expect any web displays, I am not on broadband (yet ?) and my
PC is only connected at 38.4K when I dial in, so I haven't purchased the
weatherlink software. But who knows ? :-)

I'm having good fun with mine (but I am a geeky computer scientist anyway!)

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Jonathan Stott
Canterbury Weather: http://www.jstott.me.uk/weather/

Welcome to the club; I don't think you will be disappointed with the
station. I notice that you have not bought the Weatherlink softaware so
presumably you do not have the logger and cannot download any data to your
PC. There is a considerable amount of information available this way that
is diifficult to access from the console. I transfer all of the data to
Excel which allows me much more flexibility in looking at the data than the
Weatherlink software permits.

Wireless reception can be tricky and it is essential to find a good position
for the console withe respect to the ISS. I movement of a few inches can
have a dramatic effect on the reception. My units are about 20 metres apart
and normally the reception is close to 100% but but once every few months I
tend to lose readings completely for several hours for no obvious reason (RF
interference?) so it is a good idea to look at the diagnostic readout
regularly to check this aspect. The closer the two units are the better the
results will be.

I suspect that my rainguage tends to under read which could be a calibration
problem or an exposure problem. I will be interested to see what your
experience will be given that you already have a manual rainguage.

Alan

In message , Will
writes
Also, please don't expect any web displays, I am not on broadband (yet
?) and my
PC is only connected at 38.4K when I dial in, so I haven't purchased the
weatherlink software. But who knows ? :-)

Will,

I am at the end of a very long BT landline, no hope of broadband ever
and regularly get connections speeds of 33.6kps. But even at that, it
still takes Weatherlink no more than 3 minutes to upload all the
graphics it generates for the webpages.

Regards,
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Chris

www.thehendre.com
(but being rebuilt)

On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 10:10:29 +0100, Chris Fox wrote:

I am at the end of a very long BT landline, no hope of broadband
ever and regularly get connections speeds of 33.6kps.

How long is very long? The 6km limit on 512kbps BT ADSL was lifted on
the 6th September... Over 6km and BT send an engineer round to change
the faceplate on the master socket(*) to split the data from voice
before it hits any internal extension wiring, this also avoids the
need for micro filters on all connected analogue devices.

(*) Don't know if that would include moving the master socket location
to where the PC is located.

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Cheers
Dave. pam is missing e-mail

In message om, Dave
Liquorice writes
How long is very long? The 6km limit on 512kbps BT ADSL was lifted on
the 6th September... Over 6km and BT send an engineer round to change
the faceplate on the master socket(*) to split the data from voice
before it hits any internal extension wiring, this also avoids the
need for micro filters on all connected analogue devices.

(*) Don't know if that would include moving the master socket location
to where the PC is located.

About 7km. I checked with BT website using my phone number and got the
response:

"Our initial test indicates that it is VERY UNLIKELY you will be able to
receive Broadband from BT with speeds up to 512Kb due to the very long
length of your telephone line."

But I live in hope!
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Chris