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As you might have read elsewhere, I have been running a Davis Weather Station for some time. It consists of a suite of weather sensors (SOWS) that sit on top of a pole in the garden capturing wind, rain, etc data that is then periodically transmitted wirelessly to a console that sits on my desk. The console also displays the current that weather data in a meaningful manner. The received data is also stored in a flash memory that resides in a dongle that I plugged into the bottom of the console.

That data can subsequently be downloaded to a PC by connecting the PC to the dongle using a USB cable. Once the PC has the data it is invariable displayed on the PC and also uploaded to one of more web based weather stations where it is used to augment the data base the weather station uses to model/forecast the weather.

Unfortunately that forever troublesome dongle connection died about a year ago. Given its price and performance I will not be replacing it, Instead I am going to try and use a 833 MHz receiver controlled by my PC (or similar) to develop a system capable of capturing the weather data being broadcast wirelessly by the SOWS.

Don't hold your breath if you are going to be looking out for the appearance of this functionality.

Tx - Model: WL102-341 - Short Antenna

Rx - Model: RX470-4 (RX470-4 is WL101-341 upgraded version) - Long Antenna

If you have any comments, corrections, suggestions or plain criticism, I would appreciate it if you would communicate the same to me.

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