An alternate method of setting up a club weather station is through the amateur radio APRS system. You will need someone with a ham license (technician) is good enough and easy to obtain if one is needed. You don't need internet as the data is transmitted via amateur radio APRS HF frequencies. You do need to be in range of a digipeter. A number of my friends have set these up. There are numerous articles on setting up APRS weather station which you can google but I have included a few below. Jerry Connecting a Davis weather station directly to a Ham Radio for the purpose of transmitting weather data over the APRS network. Version: A Amateur Radio - Automatic Weather Stations (APRS) - WX4NHC, the Florida International University › w4ehw › ... AMATEUR RADIO - AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATIONS (APRS). Volunteers at WX4NHC, the amateur radio station at the National Hurricane ... Adding an Inexpensive Weather Station to your Shack | Ham Radio Science Ham Radio Science › adding-an-inexpen... Feb 16, 2012 - Add an inexpensive computer based weather station to your ... via APRS or your neighbors using such services as Weather ...
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 21, 2017, at 10:23 PM, Dennis C. via CnC-List <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Don, > > I have no clue. It can't be much. Just a few numbers every so often. I > read through the manual and the specs on the stations product page and did > not see anything on data usage. > > http://site.ambientweatherstore.com/Manuals/ws1001wifi.pdf > > You may be able to slow the refresh rate to reduce data usage. I can ask one > of our WiFi gurus tomorrow. > > You can also email the manufacturer. > > At the very least, you can use it locally with the console. The console and > sensor communicate via RF, not WiFi. > > Dennis > >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 8:46 PM, Don Harben via CnC-List >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Dennis, >> >> We are quite interested in exploring station at www.ncyc.ca. The regular >> weather stations and private Weather Underground stations are physically far >> away. The North Channel NOAA style Environment Canada Weather Buoy is our >> current go to for current weather. >> >> Our club is remote enough that neither cable, fibre nor digital phone >> internet are available. We do have a cell internet hub with 50G a month >> under a special remote and rural internet access program. >> >> We are curious how much data is used in a day/week/month connecting the >> weather information to Weather Underground? >> >> Don >> >> Don Harben >> Viking 34 >> Life >> www.ncyc.ca >> >> >>> On Mar 21, 2017, at 7:48 PM, Dennis C. via CnC-List <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> I got a crazy bug a few months ago to install a weather station at my yacht >>> club, Pontchartrain Yacht Club on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain at >>> Mandeville, LA. There were no wind stations anywhere close to my club. >>> There are some wind data/forecasts available through premium wind services >>> or personal weather stations further inland. >>> >>> I'm sure some of you might have already done this but for those who haven't >>> it's really easy to install a weather station, hook it to your club's WiFi >>> and then link it to Weather Underground's wundermap.com. Once you go live >>> on wundermap, WU also provides a webpage where you select your weather >>> station and it builds the HTML code that you can copy and paste into your >>> club's website. Real time wind data will be available on the website. >>> >>> I tagged a few of the club racers for some $$$ and bought this station: >>> >>> http://www.ambientweather.com/amws1000wifi.html >>> >>> This weekend we installed it on the club flagpole which stands fairly >>> unobstructed in front of our club on the lakefront. Pics of me and a >>> fellow member working on the install are here: >>> https://www.facebook.com/PontYC/ (I'm the idiot without the hat!) >>> >>> The station communicates via RF to a console which we installed in our bar >>> and connected to the club WiFi. The race committee can easily look at it >>> for skippers meetings. Connecting it to the club WiFi and to wundermap.com >>> was easy and straightforward. >>> >>> To see our station go here: >>> >>> https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KLAMANDE128#history >>> >>> Scroll down to the neat graphs! >>> >>> Dennis C. >>> Touche' 35-1 #83 >>> Mandeville, LA >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you >>> wish to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: >>> https://www.paypal.me/stumurray >>> >>> All Contributions are greatly appreciated! >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you wish >> to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: >> https://www.paypal.me/stumurray >> >> All Contributions are greatly appreciated! >> > > _______________________________________________ > > This list is supported by the generous donations of our members. If you wish > to make a contribution to offset our costs, please go to: > https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > > All Contributions are greatly appreciated!
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