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The Weather Station that I use to capture data is the Davis Vantage Pro2. Originally I was looking at the "wired" version, but, for practicality reasons I actually ended up paying extra for the "wireless" version. The Vantage Pro 2 weather stations are the first and only weather stations in their price range to use frequency hopping spread spectrum radio technology. Vantage Pro2 can transmit and receive data up to 1000' (300 m) line of sight. At the same time Davis have kept all the features that have made Vantage Pro famous. You'll get highs and lows (and/or totals or averages) for virtually all weather variables for the past 24 days, months, or years, and your own local forecast—all without a PC.
If you look on the left hand side you will where my station is located. The installation followed the CWOP guidlines as closely as possible taking ito account my personal ability, location and ease of maintainence. All these factors play off against one another. The location of the equipment at the end of the day is up to you. The credit for the installation and the subsequent setup of the live weather feeds cannot purley be mine. Without the help from a dedicated bunch of weather enthusiasts over at Weather-Watch.com I could not have achived what I have to date. Many have helped and I wont name them all. they know who they are.... The Weather Station uploads to the internet 24/7. The Console is connected to a Laptop dedicated to only receving and uploading the data to the net. The connection between the console and laptop is a USB data logger that you can purchase from Davis or any other Davis authroised dealer. In the UK I would suggest using the UK Weather Shop. You can continue to use the software that comes with the data logger or you can use a fantastic peice of sofware that has limitless configuration options and many addons. Let me introduce you to Weather Display. Copied straight from their site " Weather Display is the software to get the most from your weather station. Not only does it support a huge range of stations from all the major manufacturers but it's also stacked with features and options. These include real time, auto scale and graph history graphing, FTP of the weather data to your web page, pager and email notifications of extreme conditions, web download, Metar/ Synop emails, averages/extreme/climate/NOAA reports, web cam upload, grouped file uploads, FTP downloads, decoded metar downlaod's, APRS output (internet and direct com port as well) ,WAP, direct web cam capture, animated web cam images, weatherdials, weather voice, weather answer phone, use of Dallas 1 wire sensors (like lightning counter, solar sensor, barometer sensor and extra temperature/humidity sensors with any weather station), use a Labjack to add extra temperature or humidity sensor to your existing weather station (USB)... and lots more!" The reason I did not give my own overview of weather display is that the statement above sums it up pretty well. You can see live examples of WD and WDL by clicking on the following link: Once I get more to grips with the software and what it can do for me I will update this and other pages. In the mean time please continue to enjoy Shaggy's World.
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