,Steve Woodford ] wrote:
Jim writes:

On 2009-01-22, Dave Cornwell wrote:
If money is a major issue there is The Fine Offset range which are rebadged
as a number of names including Watson, Maplins and others. These cost about
£70 and are widely available on eBay Shops, Maplins and many other shops.

Thanks for that. The software side of things is less important as, at a
push, I _might_ be able to write my own.

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See http://www.wviewweather.com/ for some free Mac-compatible software
which supports a decent range of stations. It may soon also support the
above-mentioned Fine Offset WH-1080 on Mac OS if I can find someone to
test my patches which currently work well under NetBSD.

I got my WH-1080 from Maplin while they were on offer for around 70 pounds
a month or two ago. The radiation shield is not too good, but spraying
mine with several coats of white enamel paint has improved things
considerably.

See http://www.mctavish.co.uk/weather/ for the kind of data available
using the Wview software with WH-1080.

Cheers, Steve

Hi Steve,

I have one of these weather stations up in Scotland. I hacked
together a small C program to read data from the USB interface on the unit
and shove it into graphs. The server runs NetBSD 4.0. It seems to to work
OK most of the time, but my station quite frequently generates duff values
and so I have quite a bit of filtering. The cowl blew off the outside unit
in a gales a few weeks ago and I think that knackered the humidity sensor
which now reads very low (10-50) rather that what I would expect 60-100). I
would be quite interested to try out your patches for NetBSD as the current
pages I generate as pretty naff compared to the norm.

Regards,
Dave

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