Holley-Navarre Weather

Launch A Station

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How To Get Started

1) Purchase a personal weather station

2) Purchase the computer software

3) Set up your station

4) Load your software onto your computer

5) Connect station by USB to computer

6) Launch software and sign up your station

Recommendations!

     There are a lot of stations to choose from on the market but take it from me, you don't have to get the high priced one to get a good one. We have had the expensive ones and there is no difference in the data, just the update times and it's not worth it, not for what you're doing.

The station that we currently use is a lower priced unit from Oregon Scientific (WMR 100).

It updates its weather data every 14 seconds, as opposed to the higher priced unit with a update time of 2.5 seconds. That means every 14 sec. you get updated wind, temp, humidity, baro and rain information. Thats pretty quick.

     Stay away from La-Crosse, they make good stations but their update times are to long

(from 1 to 2 min). Just try and figure out what that wind gust was with a 1 or 2 minute delay

before your station reports the data.

     We recommend Oregon Scientific!

Not the best, but very good for the price.

(we've had no problems 2 years running)

     As far as computer software we use and

recommend Virtual Weather Station made by

Ambient Weather. It works perfectly with our

weather station (Oregon Scientific WMR 100).

If you have questions email us at

hnweather@aol.com

or click contact hnweather on home page

We Need You!

   In order to completly cover our Holley-Navarre area bounds we are looking for people to launch their own Personal Weather Stations that will

stream live data to the internet and to us. Of course we will accept any launch within our boundry lines but we are looking for a few people in strategic locations to set up sites.

We need launch sites in the these areas:

North Holley Area

Country Breeze Area

Panhandle Trail Area

Okaloosa/Santa Rosa Line Area

Edgewood Drive Area

    The cost of launching a site can be relatively inexpensive depending on the brand and type of station and software you purchase.

As low as $149.00 to as high as $599.00

for the weather station equipment package

and around $100.00 for the internet software.

You can even find "free ware" software for some stations, but we recommend Virtual Weather Station software. It's worth the price.

     So in short; you're looking at around $250.00 to $300.00 to get up and running.

     You do need to have a computer with a

broad band internet connection to stream data.

I have listed some weather station choices on the left and an explanation on how to get started feeding weather data to the internet.

Note: Although we are looking for people to launch weather station sites and feed data to the internet that we can access, the cost of purchasing and maintaining a weather station is your's. We make no claim to reimbursement or payment toward your station, software, setup

or expenses incured.