Hi everyone
Can someone advise what is the BEST home weather station. I need connection
with my PC for when I am on hilday etc. Also what is the best software to
use.
Thanks
Brian

Scarecrow wrote:

Hi everyone
Can someone advise what is the BEST home weather station. I need connection
with my PC for when I am on hilday etc. Also what is the best software to
use.
Thanks
Brian

Depends on your budget.
If you've got a £600 budget then look no further than the Davis models.
If however your budget is around the £250 mark then Oregon do some
decent models.

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Am I the only Gareth Slee?
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Scarecrow wrote:

Hi everyone
Can someone advise what is the BEST home weather station. I need
connection
with my PC for when I am on hilday etc. Also what is the best software
to
use.
Thanks
Brian

Depends on your budget.
If you've got a £600 budget then look no further than the Davis models.
If however your budget is around the £250 mark then Oregon do some
decent models.

--
Am I the only Gareth Slee?
http://garethslee.com

Hi Gareth
Yes I can spend £600 or slightly more if necessary.
Can you advise which Davis I should go for - I can have cables running into
the house if you feel it would be better?
What do you think?
Thanks again
Brian

Scarecrow wrote:

"Gareth Slee" wrote in message
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Scarecrow wrote:

Hi everyone
Can someone advise what is the BEST home weather station. I need
connection
with my PC for when I am on hilday etc. Also what is the best software
to
use.
Thanks
Brian

Depends on your budget.
If you've got a £600 budget then look no further than the Davis models.
If however your budget is around the £250 mark then Oregon do some
decent models.

--
Am I the only Gareth Slee?
http://garethslee.com

Hi Gareth
Yes I can spend £600 or slightly more if necessary.
Can you advise which Davis I should go for - I can have cables running into
the house if you feel it would be better?
What do you think?
Thanks again
Brian


Your budget was better than mine :-)
I've an Oregon WMR-928 but it's not in the same league as the the Davis
models.
I'm no expert on the Davis models but there are posters here who use
them.

Either wait for those to post their thoughts or maybe take a look at
these websites,

http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/
http://www.aceselectronics.co.uk/

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Am I the only Gareth Slee?
http://garethslee.com

On 27 Jun, 20:57, (Gareth Slee) wrote:
Scarecrow wrote:
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Scarecrow wrote:

Hi everyone
Can someone advise what is the BEST home weather station. *I need
connection
with my PC for when I am on hilday etc. *Also what is the best software
to
use.
Thanks
Brian

Depends on your budget.
If you've got a £600 budget then look no further than the Davis models.
If however your budget is around the £250 mark then Oregon do some
decent models.

--
Am I the only Gareth Slee?
http://garethslee.com

Hi Gareth
Yes I can spend £600 or slightly more if necessary.
Can you advise which Davis I should go for - I can have cables running into
the house if you feel it would be better?
What do you think?
Thanks again
Brian

Your budget was better than mine :-)
I've an Oregon WMR-928 but it's not in the same league as the the Davis
models.
I'm no expert on the Davis models but there are posters here who use
them.

Either wait for those to post their thoughts or maybe take a look at
these websites,

http://www.ukweathershop.co.uk/
http://www.aceselectronics.co.uk/

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Also John Dann's site at http://www.weatherstations.co.uk/ offers
plenty of good advice as well as good prices. John is a regular on
this site and I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be happy to say
his standards of pre-sales and post-sales support are not only based
on real experience, but they are second to none.

Before buying, you may also wish to look at Andy Overton's excellent
guide to setting up an AWS:

http://www.rmets.org/pdf/guidelines/aws-guide.pdf

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Stephen Burt
Stratfield Mortimer, Berkshire

On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:23:20 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

Also John Dann's site at http://www.weatherstations.co.uk/ offers
plenty of good advice as well as good prices. John is a regular on
this site and I'm sure I'm not the only one who would be happy to say
his standards of pre-sales and post-sales support are not only based
on real experience, but they are second to none.

Got my Davis WS from John Dann.

Can't fault my Davis WS and can't fault John Dann. Both perfect :-)
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Regards,

Hugh Jampton

Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to answer my questions.
I'll look at the recommended sites and get the Davis model (A retiral
present from my wife)
Thanks again everyone.

Brian

Hi, Brian:

Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to answer my questions.
I'll look at the recommended sites and get the Davis model (A retiral
present from my wife)
Thanks again everyone.

I found the Davis software rather inflexible. There's no way, for
instance, of starting the day at 09:00UTC, or rather only by telling the
software it's in Alaska, ie minus 9hrs!

I find the WeatherDisplay software from:

http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/wdhelp/index.shtml

suited me better. It must be good: it's organised by another Brian!

HTH

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset

Hugh Newbury wrote:
Hi, Brian:

Thanks to everyone who took the trouble to answer my questions.
I'll look at the recommended sites and get the Davis model (A retiral
present from my wife)
Thanks again everyone.

I found the Davis software rather inflexible. There's no way, for
instance, of starting the day at 09:00UTC, or rather only by telling the
software it's in Alaska, ie minus 9hrs!

My software (see below) allows this.

I find the WeatherDisplay software from:

http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/wdhelp/index.shtml

suited me better. It must be good: it's organised by another Brian!

But mine's free. And it doesn't look like... No, I'll stop there.

Mine does have a number of shortcomings, though, I'll admit that.
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Steve Loft
Sanday, Orkney. 5m ASL. http://sanday.org.uk/weather
Free weather station softwa http://sandaysoft.com/
uk.sci.weather FAQs/glossary/etc: http://weatherfaqs.org.uk/

Hi, Steve:


I found the Davis software rather inflexible. There's no way, for
instance, of starting the day at 09:00UTC, or rather only by telling the
software it's in Alaska, ie minus 9hrs!

My software (see below) allows this.

I find the WeatherDisplay software from:

http://www.tokaanuskihire.co.nz/wdhelp/index.shtml

suited me better. It must be good: it's organised by another Brian!

But mine's free. And it doesn't look like... No, I'll stop there.

?Gothic? I agree.

Mine does have a number of shortcomings, though, I'll admit that.

Possibly it only runs on Micro$oft Windoze, like the others. I run Linux
whenever poss. But it looks nice.

I hadn't heard of yours. WDisplay is mentioned, with a URL, on John
Dann's helpful site. Do you think John would also mention yours?

I'm just starting a new weather website. It's not yet complete, but I'm
updating a "Current" page already. Have a look at:

www.evershot-weather.org/wx.html

But please be kind about the incomplete remainder of the site.

Hugh

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Hugh Newbury

Running Linux Suse 10.1 in deepest Dorset