[Elecraft] Elecraft compatible WX station

[Edward R Cole]

Probably overkill on wx station comments.

I bought a Peet Bros Ultimeter 800 at Dayton last year and it blew 
apart in 50mph wind gusts a month ago.  I wondered why I was seeing 
0mph and the trees were laying over at 45-degrees! ;-)

I had been having electronic problems before the storm:  Wind speed 
would cease functioning even though the cups were spinning madly up 
at 35-feet on my tower.  I found I had to remove power from the unit 
(essentially doing a hard boot up of the electronic unit) to restore 
windspeed operation.  It has worked fine as digital thermometer.

But I lost the wind vane and the cups blew off loosing one cup and 
vane all togther (I found the remnant 50-feet from the tower on the 
ground.  Now I have to decide whether to try getting warranty repair 
of the electronics and buying a new windspeed sender?

It was hard-wired with ordinary 4 conductor flat phone wire and RJ11 
connectors.  I saw no RFI Tx or Rx running 275w on HF 20-feet above 
or 125w 6m ten feet below the speed unit.

73, Ed - KL7UW
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