[Antennas] Anemometers and Weather Stations

[Esterson/Pinsky]

I'm using a Peet Brothers (www.peetbros.com) Ultimeter 2000, they now have
a slightly more advanced model. It gives a lot more than just wind speed,
has audible,alarms can be connected to a serial port, and from there the
sky (and your programming skills) are the limit. Plus there are several
good programs out there with all kinds of recording/reporting capabilities,
and I understand that it can also be interfaced to APRS. There's even a
(very expensive) software package that generates voice reports that you can
use to generate automated over-the-air reports.

I am mostly happy with the U2000, I understand that the owners are hams, so
it's purported to be "ham-friendly". I have had a few problems with it, but
they did try to help solve them. One product I've had nothing but grief
from, though, is their unique PRO rain guage - it works by creating uniform
drops from the rain entering it and then counting the drops as they pass
through a set of gold-plated electrodes. It's a brilliant idea, but it's
not worked reliably for me. I will probably replace it with their standard
tipping-bucket guage.

Hope this helps - more questions, write back.

-avi 4X6UA

At 12:55 15-07-04 -0700, you wrote:
>I am in the process of putting up my tower and would like to add a 
>weather station/anemometer to the shack.  Our Boeing Club station had 
>a fancy system with an anemometer that would automatically lower the 
>tower when the wind exceeded a set level.
>I don't want to get that fancy (and expensive) but would like to have 
>a means of reading wind speed from the shack so I could crank the 
>tower down when it gets too windy.  Something that had a warning light 
>when a set limit was reached would be nice but not necessary.
>Could anyone point me in the right direction for something like this 
>or share your experiences.
>TIA & 73
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