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Old February 10th 04, 12:19 PM posted to uk.sci.weather
Tim West Tim West is offline
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Default La Crosse - WS2300

Another possibility is the WMR112 kit
http://www.meteorologica.co.uk/product.asp?P_ID=51 it allows you to add the
rain gauge and anemometer as funds allow! It is a full wireless system with
all the sensors being seperate and the response time is 14 seconds for the
wind rather than the 128 seconds from the WS2300. The downside is that it
won't connect to a PC (

Tim West
www.meteorologica.co.uk

"Liam Tallis" wrote in message
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Cheers for your inputs guys!

Liam
"Telboy" wrote in message
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Yup, its alright. It comes with HeavyWeather S/W which is OK, you have

the
choice of upgrading for a further £50 to WeatherDisplay - the main

advantage
is FTP upload to a web page. I didn't bother and later found in this

regard
Andy's s/w does just as well.

I went to the Eastbourne shop and had a look at the units.
http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/

Have a Google for WS2300 there's lots of discussion including some
interesting debate on the wireless use and battery life - though can't
remember exactly what forum now.

No doubt these units are good fun and for the monet provide excellent

value
and fun.

HTH

Terry




"Liam Tallis" wrote in message
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So its an alrite system for the first time user but use the UIweather

s/w
instead?

Liam


"Telboy" wrote in message
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Don't think much of the wind guage, the ws2500 one looked a lot

better.
I've also recently been having a few problems with the rain guage.

Its
all
wired, not wireless, maybe its my wiring rather than the unit...

Overall
it
was good value and I'm pleased with it - the ws2500 was just too
expensive.

One thing I will vouch for is Andy's uiweather s/w. I've got it

installed
and its excellent.

Terry




"Andy Pritchard" wrote in message
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Hi Liam

It's a cheap and cheerful weather station. I got mine last year

(never
had
a
weather station before) and I'm happy with it. It was fairly pain

less
to
set-up and runs fine.

The only downside to the station is the software that comes with

it.
Allot
of people use http://www.weather-display.com/ as a replacement

although
I
run my own software http://www.apritch.myby.co.uk/uiweather.htm

Andy.


"Liam Tallis" wrote in

message
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I've been looking at the La Crosse WS2300 as can be found at
http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/acatalog/lctws_sub.html

I only have a cheap Oregon Scientific Wireless temperature and
humidity
sensor at the moment so am looking for like a medium quality

weather
station
with most features (wind, rainfall). I don't know much about all

the
brands
available e.t.c. or things but does anyone have any experience

with
La
Crosse (and specifically this model) and is it suitable for

someone
like
me
who's never had a proper weather station before

Cheers

Liam