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that also displays barometric pressure, possibly for APRS use in the
long-term. For those of you running weather stations, I'd appreciate some
guidance. Currently, I've been looking at:
Peet Bros Ultimeter 2000.
Davis Instruments Waether Monitor II
Oregon Scientific Weather Monitor.
On initial inspection, it looks like Oregon gives the most
bang-for-the-buck, as it includes all the items which are 'optional' in the
Peet Bros and Davis kits. It also has a cordless version for $499, which
unfortunately operates at 433Mhz.
Does anyone have any experience with these models, advice, recommendations,
etc? (Email copies of replies would be prefereable, unless anyone else
wishes to read the feedback.)
Appreciate any help...
73, Darrell
NR3Y/W6.
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:35:22 GMT
From: "Cathryn Mataga" <cathryn@junglevision.com>
Subject: Slightly OT, but APRS-related Question
"Darrell Earnshaw" <darrell@earnshaw.org> wrote in message
news:8lnen6$bgd$1@news1.wdf.sap-ag.de...
> Hi All,
>
> Forgive me for a slightly OT enquiry, but it is somewhat related to APRS.
>
> I'm considering purchasing a weather station for home use, preferably one
> that also displays barometric pressure, possibly for APRS use in the
> long-term. For those of you running weather stations, I'd appreciate some
> guidance. Currently, I've been looking at:
>
> Peet Bros Ultimeter 2000.
>
> Davis Instruments Waether Monitor II
>
> Oregon Scientific Weather Monitor.
>
> On initial inspection, it looks like Oregon gives the most
> bang-for-the-buck, as it includes all the items which are 'optional' in the
> Peet Bros and Davis kits. It also has a cordless version for $499, which
> unfortunately operates at 433Mhz.
>
> Does anyone have any experience with these models, advice, recommendations,
> etc? (Email copies of replies would be prefereable, unless anyone else
> wishes to read the feedback.)
I just put in a Peet Brothers weather station and it works fine. The
main reason I picked it was because I'm a programmer, and the programming
interface of the Peet Brothers boxes are super-simple, and no hassle. I
cooked
up a little program for my website
http://berkeleybarb.com
And, if you click on the weather button you'll see temperature and wind
direction, among
other things. Right now I'm keeping weather stats on my hard drive, but I
haven't done any
charts or anything like that with them. I'm really busy with work right now.
My program is in Linux and just reads the serial port, decodes the weather
data, and
makes up a picture to display that has the temp humidity and other things.
Then copies
the file into the web directory. (Which isn't really 'the right' way to do
it, but seems to
work okay anyway.)
I opted for the 'radiation shielded' temperature/humidity sensor, since I
really wanted good
temperature readings, and was a little paranoid about placement of the temp
sensor in the sun or
near walls and other things. I got the non-heated wind gauge -- since here in
Berkeley California
it almost never ever gets below 40F. I suspect that my wind speed and
direction measurements
are a little bit innacurate due to turbulance caused by my antennas nearby.
But, the thing
seems to put out reasonable readings, and it's kind of fun to look and see
what the fastest
wind was, when it really blows. So far, I haven't hooked this up to any APRS
stuff.
Me, I prefer the wired versions of everythings, since I didn't want to spend
the money, and
jeez, I got a billion antenna wires and things coming out of my house anyway.
Two more
won't matter, I figure.
For mounting, I picked up a 10 foot Radio Shack mast, and stuck it on and old
chimney
mount that I had used for antennas awhile back.
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:15:00 GMT
From: Tracy Floren <DefaultUser@ihnp4.ucsd.edu>
Subject: THD-7A as a TNC
My Host Mode TNC software wont work with my THD-7A (PacTerm98). Is
there anything better than simple Windows terminal program that will
work with the THD-7A for 2 meter packet?
73's Tracy
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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 17:56:46 -0500
From: "Rick Ruhl" <ricker@cssincorp.com>
Subject: THD-7A as a TNC
Tracy,
The Kenwood units dont have a host mode in them, but they do have kiss mode.
The new Alinco units have the same TNC in then.. (from Tasco, Japan).
One thing we're looking at is a version of our software to use KISS mode in
both the Kenwood and Alinco units.
Rick Ruhl
President, Creative Services Software, Inc.
http://www.cssincorp.com
"Tracy Floren" <DefaultUser> wrote in message
news:FyBpp0.K0s@news.boeing.com...
> My Host Mode TNC software wont work with my THD-7A (PacTerm98). Is
> there anything better than simple Windows terminal program that will
> work with the THD-7A for 2 meter packet?
>
> 73's Tracy
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Date: 26 Jul 2000 23:47:53 GMT
From: nielsen@oz.net (Bob Nielsen)
Subject: THD-7A as a TNC
On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 21:15:00 GMT, Tracy Floren wrote:
>My Host Mode TNC software wont work with my THD-7A (PacTerm98). Is
>there anything better than simple Windows terminal program that will
>work with the THD-7A for 2 meter packet?
You might try paKet 6.2, available at ftp.tapr.org in
/software_lib/terminal. It has features similar to many of the host
mode programs but works with the standard TNC command mode.
--
Bob Nielsen, N7XY nielsen@oz.net
Bainbridge Island, WA http://www.oz.net/~nielsen
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Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 00:52:50 +0100
From: Roger Barker <roger@peaksys.co.uk>
Subject: THD-7A as a TNC
In article <FyBpp0.K0s@news.boeing.com>, Tracy Floren <DefaultUser@?.?>
writes
>My Host Mode TNC software wont work with my THD-7A (PacTerm98). Is
>there anything better than simple Windows terminal program that will
>work with the THD-7A for 2 meter packet?
You could have a look at WinPack. It has full support for the TH-D7. See
my sig for the download site. When you install it, you'll find a file in
the DOCS folder called TH-D7.TXT, that contains information on how to
configure WinPack for use with the TH-D7.
Also, the TH-D7's with the latest firmware support KISS (older ones
didn't), and there's a huge amount of existing software that supports
KISS mode.
--
Roger Barker, G4IDE - roger@peaksys.co.uk
For UI-View go to - http://www.packetradio.org.uk
For WinPack go to - http://www.peaksys.co.uk
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