I have two weather stations. The original station is a Radio Shack WX 200 (No longer made by Radio Shack but Oregon Scientific makes a clone) that I received as a Christmas gift on December 25,1997. This remained my primary station until January 2001 when I purchased a Davis Weather Monitor II(WM II). My Davis WM II became fully operational on March 7th, 2001 when the Weatherlink was hooked my to my computer.
My weather stations where originally connected to an Emachines 366i2/400ix Etower which has been upgraded to Pentium Celeron 533 Mhz running Windows 98. The Weather Station software I am using is
Weather View 32. My data is logged every minute to my computer. The Davis WM II data is uploaded every 10 minutes to
Weather Underground & Anything Weather; every 15 minutes to Mesowest
; every 5 mins to the Citzens Weather Observer Program (CWOP) and hourly to
Coolwx.com User Observation Page (formely hosted at PSU & FSU) via a perl script and every 30 mins to my website, Macclenny Weather Observatory.
The Radio Shack WX 200 data is uploaded only to my web server every half hour.
As of June 2006, both weather stations are on seperate computers as not overkill the computer as the weather station programs advance in computing power.
This Davis is connected to a newer Antec Outside Computer Tower with the following:
This Radio Shack is connected to the an older Gateway G6 366c Tower (was HP Pavillion Tower - May 2005) and upgraded to have the following:
Both computers share a single monitor using Belktin dual computer sharing port.
My original computer/desk/workstation: [Xmas 1997-May 2005]
My new computer/desk/workstation: [As of May 2005]
Both computer towers on the floor under new desk
The newer computer tower is in the left and the HP computer tower is in the right. The older Belktin port is in the center.
Updated pic from June 2006 (zoomed out).
Two weather station consoles on original desk:
The WX 200 is in the upper right and the WM II is in the lower right.
Two weather station consoles on new desk:
The WX 200 is on the left and the WM II is on right.
Davis WM II Temperature/Humidity Sensor in a Passive Radiation Shield in original location
at station start-up in Jan 2001. -- Southside of house. (at Left)
Davis WM II Temp/Humidity Sensor moved in April 2001 to Northside of house. (at Right)
Davis WM II Temp/Humidity Sensor moved in May 2006 to fence pole east of the house
to achieve better readings. -- Looking South
to achieve better readings. -- Looking South
Radioshack WX 200 Temperature/Humidity Probe in Aluminum Foil -- Southside of house under porch (readings are higher)
Davis WM II Anemometer in original location, Jan 2001, about 20 ft above the ground and slightly above the roof. (at Left)
Looking East
Davis WM II Anemometer moved in Summer 2003 to a location about 6-8 ft above the highest point of the roof and still in the treeline. (at Right)
Looking East
Davis WM II Anemometer -- 40 ft tower as of 8/2/2004 -- about 50 ft above the ground.
Looking Southwest | Looking West |
Radio Shack WX 200 Anemometer -- about 15-20 ft above the ground just above the roof giving very low readings.
Looking West
Wide Picture showing both rain guages -- Radio Shack at top -- Davis at bottom
Radio Shack Electronic Tipping Bucket Rain Guage - located on the South point of the roof.
Davis Electronic Tipping Bucket Rain Guage - located on the center point of the roof.
Back-up plastic/glass rain guages located on eastern side of fence on fense posts
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