On Feb 12, 5:40*pm, Paul Hyett wrote:
I tried one of those, but it crashed my PC.


If you choose carefully and find one that has good drivers for eg
whatever version of Windows you're using (eg ones with an FTDI
chipset) then in general they have excellent reliability. (Thats said,
I do seem to recall that one or two of the cheap stations - could be
LaCrosse models BICBW - try to play some fairly unnatural games with
their serial port wiring and that could be part of the reason for any
incompatibility with these particular models. But for example I've
never encountered a problem with a Davis station and an FTDI adapter,
provided an up-to-date driver was used.)

JGD