[Xastir] Weather station to use with Xastir

[Matt Werner]

I would also caution against the Peet Bros if you're using it in an RF
environment.  My wind sensor dies about once a year.  After doing some
searching I confirmed my guess - it's likely due to the RF that it's
near cooking the reed switches.  At something like $45/repair, plus
postage, plus downtime, it's grown frustrating after a couple of
years.

On Dec 10, 2007 7:00 PM, Tom Russo <russo at bogodyn.org> wrote:
> 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.
>
> --
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