Peter Goodhall, 2E0SQL - M3PHP » station http://www.m3php.com amateur radio blog everything everything from activities to moans. Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:02:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 GB2CCC Special Event Station Oxford http://www.m3php.com/2009/09/17/gb2ccc-special-event-station-oxford/ http://www.m3php.com/2009/09/17/gb2ccc-special-event-station-oxford/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:58:19 +0000 Peter http://www.m3php.com/?p=361 Last weekend was the yearly Historic Churches sponsored walk and cycle ride, and like normal Harry (G3NGX) and a team of helpers put on a special event station on the broad walk outside Christ Church College in Oxford. This year I only had a short visit due to health problems but enjoyed my time at the station, conditions did seem poor and 20m was a no go zone due to the WAE Contest on at the time.

We had 3 stations on the go one on 70cms, and two HF stations these being on 40 and 80m using a Kenwood TS570 and a Yaesu FT897, for antennas it was a 80m doublet was great to see interest from people walking past to.

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]]> http://www.m3php.com/2009/09/17/gb2ccc-special-event-station-oxford/feed/ 0 MyDel WX2008MK11 Weather Station http://www.m3php.com/2008/11/14/mydel-wx2008mk11-weather-station/ http://www.m3php.com/2008/11/14/mydel-wx2008mk11-weather-station/#comments Fri, 14 Nov 2008 17:17:24 +0000 Peter http://m3php.com/?p=220 At the last Kempton Radio Rally M3JFM picked up one of the MyDel WX2008MK11 weather stations from Martin Lynch and Son, for the reasonable price of £79.95. Inside the box it came with

  • 23 x 14.5 x 3.5cm LCD touch screen extra-bright illuminated and monitor
  • Wind speed sensor
  • Wind direction sensor
  • Rain gauge
  • Outside temperature / humidity sensor with transmit module
  • Cable harness to connect sensors to transmitter
  • Mounting arms for sensors and hardware
  • Short stub mounting mast
  • USB Cable

On arriving home the sensors we’re connected up and Terry G0LUQ and myself placed them on top of our biggest mast in the garden at around 26ft, as they are all wireless it was just a matter of switching on the LCD touch screen and letting it start communicating with the sensors 30ft away.

The sensors seem to provide correct reasonably correct data and how with it logging all the time we’re starting to see trends in the data collected.

Once this was done and data was being displayed, it was time to give the software easyweather a go which was supplied on CD, on first install it was fine but after leaving it a while it was clear that it had bugs and an obvious one was memory leaks.

One downside of the supplied software as also the fact it didn’t allow you to do anything with the data apart from providing a .dat file which was similar in looks to a CSV file with all the data included. What i really wanted to do was get all this data online so I can monitor it anywhere i feel like after searching around on Google I came across a program called Cumulus by Sandysoft.

Which works just like easyweather just with less bugs and what I’d say was a nicer user interface, what was most important though was the fact it included the option to upload the data from the weather station to a website using FTP.

Our page can be found at http://wx.prettygoodprojects.com this is updated very 5 minutes normally apart from when its a contest weekend and the software might not be running.

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