Weather station purchasing - advice sought!
 

Hi there...I am looking to buy a weather station as a gift, and would
greatly appreciate some help and pointers.

This will be the recipients first serious weather station, but they are
fairly obsessive with meteorology and the weather...so I would like to get
them something to get their teeth into. That in mind, I would really like to
get them the Davis VantagePro 2 Wireless...the prohibitive factor being
price. I have been trawling the group archives for a bit and have read
various discussions on the viability of sourcing these from the US. I was
wondering if anyone here has successfully managed to get a US dealer to
source the UK model and relay this here via a friend residing in the states?
Another tack I read, was that it may be possible to get the US spec unit
converted for use in this country via a third party? If this is the case,
could any one point me in the direction of someone who could perform this
service?

Failing the above coming to fruition, I would consider the OS WMR928. I have
read quite a few mixed comments about this unit, and wondered if anyone
could offer some more guidance. While I can see this is no Davis...is this
still a worthy unit? Also, with regard to this unit...do US and UK specs
differ?

If you have any advice at all pertaining to the above, or anything else I
should consider, your help would be very gratefully received.

Very many thanks,
Sam