I see they are now in the $80 range ...oh well for once I am an early adopter? I am thinking that this was made for Celestron by LaCrosse. It has that look and feel to it. There are another bunch of cheap wx stations appearing in various catalogues. I picked up a wireless Rain Gauge at the Home Despot ...for about 30 bucks when I put in my new lawn to monitor the watering last year. It stopped working after about a week.
Anyway, I hope to see the familiar 44-bit packets as shown in Jean-Paul ROUBELAT - F6FBB (a Fench Ham) post at : http://www.f6fbb.org/domo/sensors/tx3_th.php
The wireless snoop will give me a second source of wind speed and direction, and an extra outdoor temp located in that sensor as well. Pressure and RH% are most likely locally measured in the console.
The pressure and RH% were real easy to read on the PIC weather station using an A/D converter and a couple OpAmps. I should have no problem porting these to the new APRS WxServer.
I am a little cautious of relying entirely on this station's wind sensor it seems more flimsy than the Dallas Semi 1-Wire, which started having issues after about a year of operation, the speed sensor would "stick" and when it broke free again it would sometimes give a huge false wind spike (50+ MPH) When I took it down I found that the plastic around the bearings simply went out of round causing the axial to wobble.
It will be a happy day if I see these as there is a Practical Adrino Post by Marc Alexander and Jonathan Oxer ~that should do most, if not all, of the heavy lifting on the decode!
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