On 1/9/2012 7:05 PM, notbob wrote:
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It occurs to me, Wunderground, which I assume you are referring to,
has some rather stringetnt requirements, not jes letting any ol'
tom/dich/harry become an included station. We have an iffy station
listed on Wunderground which is sometimes online and other, not. Not
reassuring and not sure why Wunderground keeps them.

AFAICT there's no restriction by Wunderground regarding uploading any
station that has a compatible software link. Those are "PWS" stations.
There are some reqm'ts to get on the NOAA MADIS network, but I've not
yet futzed around to see just what it takes there.



That said, I hope you get it sorted out, as I think the more stations,
the better. I also hope yer station equipment holds up. For the
price, I've heard some rather discouraging feedback on Davis and am no
longer enamored with that option. For ppl considering an equipment
purchase, a rather unlikely, but not suprising, review source is ham
radio fans. Check it out:

http://tinyurl.com/7rxwwfj



The problem I've had w/ staying connected to Wunderground seems to be
totally related simply keeping an absolute time synch; get even a few
seconds behind and Wunderground doesn't show the data on the upload as
current if the minute hasn't flipped when it's time--the data goes into
some archive that I've never figured how to get to rather than the
current view and the station looks like it's not responding even though
the communication is continuing.

My frustration w/ the Davis end is there seems to be no way to set the
clock that accurately; the firmware response is slow and seems also to
be variable and the only way to set that I've found is manually. So, I
can get it close enough on the right side and it'll function fine for
some period of time then drift seems to cause a time mismatch and it'll
never recover until reset the time on the Davis console. I ain't got
the patience to keep this up. Unless others have figured out a way
around the problem I'm seeing I can understand the large number of
unresponsive stations.

My son got this for me and did all the digging into it so I can only
hope he made a smart choice. He did a bunch of installations for a
research installation of some sort in the Raleigh area but they were
$10k/station kind of things; obviously out of the question for the
purpose here.

I'm going to have to move it; the silo and barn appear to be blocking
wind far more than I thought they would where I put it first (it was
convenient more than anything and I didn't want yet another pole
somewhere to have to go around so it's on a post on the loading chute at
the moment only about 100-ft away from the 60-ft silo.

When it dries out enough I can get the manlift down there w/o getting
stuck I may try sticking it on the top of the light pole down in the
feedlot; that'll be pushing the communications distance probably, though
as the elevator and Butler bin are in between. Amazing w/ all the area
out here there doesn't seem a good place to put it...

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