On Tue, 17 Aug 2004 14:19:37 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote: > > >Following on from the weather station thread on clug, i was wondering if > >anyone knows of any weather station units available in NZ. I think DSE > >used to sell one that had a serial port, but I cannot see that one on > >their website any more. Of course it will be connected to a linux box! > > > >thats the sort of thing I want, consumer grade, in the order of $100.00. > > > >Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > I've got a load of software wot I wrote that gets metar info and decodes > it into a Mysql database, if that's any use. chch info is available ( > from the usa! ) at about 30 minutes old, updated every 30 minutes. > > I looked into the weather station stuff a few months ago, and you're > looking as 250+ for anything even approaching useful. damn > > What I'd like to find out more about is... there's a weather station on > the top of Mt Herbert, which seems to communicate over the radio waves. > Now, can we hijack those signals? With any luck you should be in line of > sight! > yes i think i would, although it may be the neighbouring mountain ( to the right of herbert, name escapes me for the moment) we can see clearly. how would we test? got any idea of where to look? I was hoping to implement something like this: http://maybros.d2g.com/weather/ Hell it looks cold over there again! That page refers to a wm-918, which seems to have been available at DSE at some stage (referred to if you google for wm-918 site:.nz) it is also the model number of an oregon scientific product, but according to their home page is no longer current. Oh well, perhaps i will have to go Andy's route and build something myself. > Just a few random thoughts, > > Steve -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
