NWS Cleveland. My callsign is KC8IUR.<div><br></div><div>The weather station I will be using is the Argent Data. I chose it due to low price to features included. To get barometric pressure or humidity values from other companies, you've got to spend a LOT more. Right now, i'm planning on transmitting RF through a HTX-202 into an Arrow Antennas GP 146 1/4 wave ground plane mounted inside an attic. The weather box will need to be mounted under the eaves and the wind/rain assembly is going to take the place of, and take over the mast of, an old SD DTV dish on the ridge line. I will run the AD weather station and HTX-202 off a gel-cell power source, 13.8v nominal. Charging will either be accomplished by solar power at a later date, or a simple power supply connected in series for the time being. I will run a data cable from the AD weather station to a mac mini. I will be able to configure the device and get weather telemetry back through the same cable. The mac is connected via copper gig ethernet to the network equipment downstairs. The internet connection is ADSL and everything in the closet runs off a UPS. Other than the mac itself, everything has battery power.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 4:30 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djhuff@rockwellcollins.com" target="_blank">djhuff@rockwellcollins.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<font face="sans-serif" size="2">Eric,</font>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Where are you, and which NWS are you
served by? Not all NWS stations are setup the same way. Some are
IS only, some use RF only, and some have no APRS at all.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Some NWS offices only use Citizen Weather
Observer Program,</font>
<br><tt><font size="2"><</font></tt><a href="http://www.wxqa.com/" target="_blank"><tt><font size="2">http://www.wxqa.com/</font></tt></a><tt><font size="2">></font></tt>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">and others use weather from independent
sources. </font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">I have also been to NWS offices that
ONLY had APRS weather via RF, they explained it was problem of getting
non-government approved apps thru the firewall.</font>
<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">More detail or a callsign would be good.</font>
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<br><font face="sans-serif" size="2">Dave</font>
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<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">From:
</font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">Eric Hansen <<a href="mailto:skyssx@gmail.com" target="_blank">skyssx@gmail.com</a>></font>
<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">To:
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<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Date:
</font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">03/15/2011 04:56 PM</font>
<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Subject:
</font><font face="sans-serif" size="1">[aprssig] Clarification
of APRS weather station data flow.</font>
<br><font color="#5f5f5f" face="sans-serif" size="1">Sent by:
</font><font face="sans-serif" size="1"><a href="mailto:aprssig-bounces@tapr.org" target="_blank">aprssig-bounces@tapr.org</a></font>
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<br><font size="3">I am setting up a weather station sometime this spring,
and i'd like a little clarification on how the data from APRS weather stations
gets to the NWS. In a home based situation, wouldn't it be more efficient
to have the weather station upload data directly to the server the NWS
is pulling from? Does the NWS have an APRS receiver program in any
cities? Otherwise, it seems like you could keep reliability high by putting
all your networking equipment on a UPS and submitting your data over the
internet. </font><tt><font size="2">_______________________________________________<br>
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