You could use APRS weather stations nearby your tower or even put up your own.
http://aprs.fi/ On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 9:24 AM, Ryan Ghering <[email protected]> wrote: > We have a setup for this. I use a "carpc" > http://www.mini-box.com The VoomPC-2-Car-PC is the one we use currently. > Put debian linux on it, with a davis weather station and usb link. Then I > have a perl script that collects data from the weather station, and have > SNMP running to gather other data from each site. Has Cacti running on them > for data collection and well as syslog. Each "carpc" has an 80 gig HD and > gig of ram.I have a few that have 802.11 cards or USB sticks on them for > some basic stuff like freq monitoring etc.. All done with linux.. Best of > all its 12 volt and these work well in harsher environments. > > Thanks > Ryan > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Matt Liotta <[email protected]> wrote: > >> This makes me think about a cool product someone needs to produce. Some >> sort of device that could be deployed at a wireless colocation site that >> would simply listen on a variety of bands and collect weather information. >> The device would make all this data available via some reasonable API; >> possibly SNMP. Then a monitoring system to collect this data and graph it >> historically. This would allow the operator to have a much better view of >> the environment for which their network is operating in. >> >> -Matt >> >> On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:00 AM, John Scrivner wrote: >> >> > I am not a huge UBNT fan but I might be persuaded to buy one of these for >> > each tower to setup as a remote Spectrum Analyzer for each tower >> location. >> > How much do these radios run and who sells them on here? >> > Scriv >> >> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> WISPA Wants You! Join today! >> http://signup.wispa.org/ >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] >> >> Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >> http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> >> Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ >> > > > > -- > Ryan Ghering > Network Operations - Plains.Net > Office: 970-848-0475 - Cell: 970-630-1879 > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
