Stephen Burt wrote:
I'd rate the Kestrel 4000 handheld AWS.

Kestrel seem to do 4 different handheld AWSs - is the 4000 version
significantly better than the 3500?

Also, how do they cope with wildly varying altidude? I will be
travelling from Seattle to Los Angeles via the Rocky Mountains so will
be going from about 0m ASL to about 3000m ASL and back again - do you
think that it would be able to adjust for such wildly varying altitude
in such a short amount of time with regards to pressure readings?

Also, a more practical problem. If I want to leave the AWS outside near
the tent, how far away do you think it would need to be away to be far
enough away from the effects of two sleeping bodies?! Would temperature
readings be fine if the device was dangled on the tent? Also, would
there be any way to secure the device (say to a picnic table or
somesuch)? I'm wary of leaving the device outside in a public campground
for obvious reasons (although we'll be a long way from civilisation most
of the time!).

I don't want massively accurate readings, just to give me a fair
ballpark of the kind of conditions while I'm there.

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