[Xastir] Weather station to use with Xastir

[Tom Russo]

On Mon, Dec 10, 2007 at 12:13:06PM -0800, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <archer at eskimo.com> flavor, containing:
> The Lacrosse and Oregon Scientific/Huger/Radio Shack types give you
> lots of sensors out of the box, but they might not last as long.

I would say that you should avoid LaCrosse equipment at all costs.  It is
cheap, fragile, and of low accuracy.  

My LaCrosse unit lasted about 6 months before the rain sensor gave up the ghost,
and a little longer before the wind sensor died.  It is now nothing more than
a temperature and humidity sensor, and of no value for APRS weather (because
it basically causes the probe software to hang until it times out now that
the wind sensor doesn't report properly).

And from the day I got it, the barometer was a problem, giving extremely poor
quality data (according to the quality control program from the 
gladstonefamily.net site).

Get a good one, don't waste money on LaCrosse junk.

-- 
Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
Tijeras, NM  QRPL#1592 K2#398  SOC#236 AHTB#1 http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM
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