[Xastir] weather station

[Tom Russo]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 12:29:12PM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <Xastir at bwm.us> flavor, containing:
> 
> I purchased a Lacrosse unit from Sam's Club a year ago. At $100 it  
> seemed a decent deal.
> Wrong, nothing worked well. The Temp was always 5 deg. different than  
> what was being reported by my Ultimeter II which was usually within a  
> degree of what the NWS station 2 miles away was reporting.  
> Unfortunatly that 5 degree difference was sometimes higher and  
> sometimes lower and no rhyme or reason. The Rain gauge was wildly  
> erratic reporting flooding rain on the driest days.

I had that problem, too.  It turns out to be caused by HF transmissions.  If
your temperature/hygro sensor is anywhere near your HF antennas it'll 
get bogus rainfall information.

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Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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