weather station smashed [Archive]

David Draun

10-13-2004, 04:15 PM

....be on the lookout for a tall, stocky, middle aged, balding, yellow skinned man with four fingers on each hand, last seen wearing blue jeans and a white polo shirt. He goes by the name Homer Simpson, and is wanted for multiple accounts of wanton destruction of weather stations in his home town of Springfield. He is believed to be connected to a recent event in Macomb, IL. Simpson allegedly used a baseball bat in the attack. He is considered armed and extremely stupid. :D :D :D :lol: :lol:

http://www.thesimpsons.com/bios/images/bios_family_homer.gif

David Drummond

10-13-2004, 08:54 PM

Originally posted by Amos Magliocco
These were no doubt outlaw chasers with nothing left to lose. Desperate people.

LOL, will probably be a huge public outcry to regulate chasing too eh? :lol: :wink:

Austin Ivey

10-13-2004, 11:28 PM

My weather station was also vandalized last week.

ALL of my cables (7 total to all the sensors) on my vantage wireless pro were cut with scissors while the unit was in my backyard. It's been in the same place for almost a year.

I had to mail it off to Davis Instruments in California. The repair has cost me $105!!! :twisted:

When I get it back this Friday, my friend and I are mounting it on a THIRTY foot pole, cementing it into the ground and strapping it into the side of my condo with large bolts.

Lets see anyone try and mess with it then!

Tim Vasquez

10-14-2004, 01:20 AM

Dan -- did the Prof fail anyone recently?

Austin -- any neighbors complain about your wind vanes being an eyesore?

I strongly believe that wx stn vandalism doesn't lend itself to random hooliganism, unless it's sitting out in the middle of a field or a parking lot. Or there are obvious bored 13 year olds nearby.

Tim

Dan Cook

10-14-2004, 01:28 AM

Tim: dunno.

David Drummond

10-14-2004, 08:08 AM

Ok it appears we have a serial station killer on the loose now.

Robert Dewey

10-14-2004, 09:35 AM

Originally posted by David Drummond
Ok it appears we have a serial station killer on the loose now.

:shock: Uh oh, my weather station is giving some funny readings... My guess is the battery needs to be changed (it's in wireless mode)

Austin Ivey

10-14-2004, 09:49 AM

Originally posted by Tim Vasquez

Austin -- any neighbors complain about your wind vanes being an eyesore?

No complaints related to that.

However, I did find out what happened. It turns out my neighbor has a mentally ill sister that lives with him. She's at home all day while hes working at the lab. He believes she came in the backyard and cut the cables to my weather station because of her disorder. Also, my satellite tv cables and internet cables were cut!

To take away my weather is one thing but to deprive me of satellite and internet over a weekend is another. It really pissed me off!

Apparently she's cut peoples cables before. Her ex-husband claims she punched holes in his septic tank and cut some telephone wires on his property.

How's that for a story??

Carrie Halliday

10-14-2004, 09:57 AM

Hey Austin, is this person who has the mentally ill sister going to reimburse you? Gee, sounds like she needs a nanny.

All this talk of the serial weather station killers has me wondering if I need to have surveillance on mine. Sure hope my neighbor who shares the fence that my station is mounted to is not mad at me....better bake him some cookies just to make sure he is happy! :D

And all this time I thought the squirrel was the only threat to my setup I had........... :shock: :lol:

Chris Frost

10-14-2004, 11:52 AM

Carrie, watch out for racoons. One turned an anemometer of mine into an ice cream scoop. :D Going back to Dan's situation, When will people grow up :cry: Now thats just stupidly stupid.

Carrie Halliday

10-14-2004, 12:00 PM

My anemometer is 17 feet up a PVC pipe, but my rain bucket is on the fence. Have seen the squirrel lookin' in there before and am a little concerned he may jump in and take a gander when he is going to come for some of his corn. So far, so good. Have yet to see a racoon in my area. *knocking on wood*

Tim Vasquez

10-14-2004, 05:11 PM

Sounds like we should start a coaxial cable fund for Austin! :)

Jeff Wear

10-14-2004, 10:06 PM

Living in an apartment complex where I sometimes have to deal with drunks pounding on my window and throwing beer bottles at my window at 3am, my weather station surprisingly hasn't fallen victim to any vandalism yet...then again all I have is a thermometer probe and 4-inch rain gauge that don't really draw attention to themselves. I actually don't think most people know what that stuff outside my bedroom window is.....one day I was startled to see someone come up to my window and say into my thermometer probe, "Why do you have a microphone on here?" Oh man I wish I got video of that!!!!

Dan Cook

10-14-2004, 10:53 PM

You should setup a webcam. :D

AdrianElizabethParker

10-22-2004, 06:50 AM

HAHAH @ the microphone comment. It kinda does look like a microphone..mine does anyway, a white microphone. I often worry for my wx cables because of opposums and racoons that like to dig around the area where the cables lead up to the anemometer. The day after I installed it I had a bit of a scare because I had twist ties (strong ones too) to secure the wire to the pole and I came out to find that the cable had been ripped from the ties like someone had tripped over the wire on the ground. I know no one had tripped because I installed it in the late evening and no one is walking around in my backyard at night. Who knows what did that but thank goodness nothing happened to it. So, I retied them and they have stayed in place ever since.

Austin Ivey

01-09-2005, 02:30 PM

I know this is an old topic but I got my weather station back up recently.....it now sits 40 feet above the ground out of the reach of crazy neighbors!

Its official elevation (ASL) is 7,275 feet.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation...sp?ID=KNMLOSAL2 (http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNMLOSAL2)

Robert Dewey

01-09-2005, 03:00 PM

Originally posted by Austin Ivey
I know this is an old topic but I got my weather station back up recently.....it now sits 40 feet above the ground out of the reach of crazy neighbors!

Its official elevation (ASL) is 7,275 feet.

http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/WXDailyHistory.asp?ID=KNMLOSAL2

That's cool... I didn't know you could put your own weather station on Weather Underground (maybe that's because I never messed with it, LOL?). I just signed up, and will have my weather station up and running on that site soon. My station is located on the top of the garage on a 20 foot pole (so it's about 30 feet AGL), so no destruction by whacky neighbors :wink:

Austin Ivey

01-09-2005, 03:42 PM

Putting your weather station on Weather underground is a good deal. They give you a free member account when you setup your station on their page which means no pop-ups or imbedded ads.

I use WxSolution version 1.6 connected to my Davis Vantage Pro. WxSolution sends my stations data to Wunderground every 15 minutes.

FYI: Ambient weather (www.ambientweather.com) has a good package deal for all types of weather stations that includes the Davis weather logger and their proprietary virtual weather station. The data logger is required to upload your stations current conditions to the internet. The price for this package is $139 which is about $30 less than you can get the logger from Davis for....plus your get their free virtual weather station software.

Andy Wehrle

01-09-2005, 04:01 PM

UWGB also has a weather station. It hasn't been vandalized yet, but with some of the idiots we have on campus it's probably only a matter of time. Maybe a protective electric fence is in order...

Kurt Hulst

01-09-2005, 05:36 PM

I find punching holes in to a septic tank is alittle hard to believe. The ones that i have put in the ground are 2- 3inch thick cement boxes. kinda like a really big cement coffin. But aleast there clean when they go in, I have never had to take one out of the ground hope i never will either might be a bit stinky. oh i dont have a weather station so i thought id coment on the septic tank :roll:

Later

Robert Dewey

01-09-2005, 05:51 PM

Austin Ivey

01-09-2005, 05:54 PM

Originally posted by Kurt Hulst
I find punching holes in to a septic tank is alittle hard to believe. The ones that i have put in the ground are 2- 3inch thick cement boxes. kinda like a really big cement coffin. But aleast there clean when they go in, I have never had to take one out of the ground hope i never will either might be a bit stinky. oh i dont have a weather station so i thought id coment on the septic tank :roll:

Later

I found this hard to believe as well. The neighbors are Laotion so maybe when her brother was telling me this he meant something else. I didn't delve into her past history too much. Regardless, she has a track history of neighborhood vandalism!! :shock:

Robert Dewey

01-09-2005, 06:04 PM

Originally posted by rdewey+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rdewey)</div><!--QuoteBegin-Kurt Hulst
I find punching holes in to a septic tank is alittle hard to believe. The ones that i have put in the ground are 2- 3inch thick cement boxes. kinda like a really big cement coffin. But aleast there clean when they go in, I have never had to take one out of the ground hope i never will either might be a bit stinky. oh i dont have a weather station so i thought id coment on the septic tank :roll:

Later

Huh, I don't get it, LOL...[/b]

Okay, I should have read the thread from post #1... Clearly my mistake, LOL...

Carrie Halliday

01-09-2005, 09:20 PM

Originally posted by Austin Ivey
Putting your weather station on Weather underground is a good deal. They give you a free member account when you setup your station on their page which means no pop-ups or imbedded ads.

I use WxSolution version 1.6 connected to my Davis Vantage Pro. WxSolution sends my stations data to Wunderground every 15 minutes.

FYI: Ambient weather (www.ambientweather.com) has a good package deal for all types of weather stations that includes the Davis weather logger and their proprietary virtual weather station. The data logger is required to upload your stations current conditions to the internet. The price for this package is $139 which is about $30 less than you can get the logger from Davis for....plus your get their free virtual weather station software.

I am working on getting mine on Wunderground right now too. I got Weatherlink for Christmas and waiting for the WG admin to email me back to get me all set up. Have my ID and password already. I can't get my info to download automatically every 30min (my setting), what am I missing? I asked my hubby about the data logger and he said he installed it in the base station. Anyone familiar with Weatherlink?

Robert Dewey

01-09-2005, 09:52 PM

Originally posted by Carrie Halliday+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Carrie Halliday)</div><!--QuoteBegin-Austin Ivey
Putting your weather station on Weather underground is a good deal. They give you a free member account when you setup your station on their page which means no pop-ups or imbedded ads.

I use WxSolution version 1.6 connected to my Davis Vantage Pro. WxSolution sends my stations data to Wunderground every 15 minutes.

FYI: Ambient weather (www.ambientweather.com) has a good package deal for all types of weather stations that includes the Davis weather logger and their proprietary virtual weather station. The data logger is required to upload your stations current conditions to the internet. The price for this package is $139 which is about $30 less than you can get the logger from Davis for....plus your get their free virtual weather station software.

I am working on getting mine on Wunderground right now too. I got Weatherlink for Christmas and waiting for the WG admin to email me back to get me all set up. Have my ID and password already. I can't get my info to download automatically every 30min (my setting), what am I missing? I asked my hubby about the data logger and he said he installed it in the base station. Anyone familiar with Weatherlink?[/b]

If you just signed up to Wunderground, it will take 24 hours before you start seeing the data on their site. Once the data finally hits their site, it should be current.

Austin Ivey

01-09-2005, 10:07 PM

Originally posted by Carrie Halliday

I am working on getting mine on Wunderground right now too. I got Weatherlink for Christmas and waiting for the WG admin to email me back to get me all set up. Have my ID and password already. I can't get my info to download automatically every 30min (my setting), what am I missing? I asked my hubby about the data logger and he said he installed it in the base station. Anyone familiar with Weatherlink?

Bad news Carrie. I got the newest version of Weatherlink 5.5.1 and it was a nightmare trying to get my station data uploaded to Wunderground.

It turns out the software engineers at Davis decided to take out the Wunderground capability in this latest version of Weatherlink, much to many peoples dismay. So, luckily, weather underground does provide a free "extension" for weatherlink to add in weather underground uploading capabilties but I could not get it to function correctly within the weatherlink interface.

After spending nearly an hour on the phone with Davis and Weather Underground tech. support I decided to give in and download WxSolution which works great! Davis actually suggested going back to Weatherlink 5.4 (which still had Weather underground capability) but I didn't want to waste time doing this.

Good luck to you and let me know if you figure out how to make weather link 5.5.1 work!

Carrie Halliday

01-09-2005, 10:23 PM

Originally posted by Austin Ivey+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Austin Ivey)</div><!--QuoteBegin-Carrie Halliday

I am working on getting mine on Wunderground right now too. I got Weatherlink for Christmas and waiting for the WG admin to email me back to get me all set up. Have my ID and password already. I can't get my info to download automatically every 30min (my setting), what am I missing? I asked my hubby about the data logger and he said he installed it in the base station. Anyone familiar with Weatherlink?

Bad news Carrie. I got the newest version of Weatherlink 5.5.1 and it was a nightmare trying to get my station data uploaded to Wunderground.

It turns out the software engineers at Davis decided to take out the Wunderground capability in this latest version of Weatherlink, much to many peoples dismay. So, luckily, weather underground does provide a free "extension" for weatherlink to add in weather underground uploading capabilties but I could not get it to function correctly within the weatherlink interface.

After spending nearly an hour on the phone with Davis and Weather Underground tech. support I decided to give in and download WxSolution which works great! Davis actually suggested going back to Weatherlink 5.4 (which still had Weather underground capability) but I didn't want to waste time doing this.

Good luck to you and let me know if you figure out how to make weather link 5.5.1 work![/b]

I finally found what I have (version 5.5). Did you have problems with your information to download to your computer automatically? Or did you have to manually download the "packets"? Since I am DSL and my computer is on 24/7, I thought the data logger would download the information for me by itself. Am I asking for something it can't do?

Carrie Halliday

01-09-2005, 10:29 PM

Originally posted by rdewey+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rdewey)</div>Originally posted by Carrie Halliday@
<!--QuoteBegin-Austin Ivey
Putting your weather station on Weather underground is a good deal. They give you a free member account when you setup your station on their page which means no pop-ups or imbedded ads.

I use WxSolution version 1.6 connected to my Davis Vantage Pro. WxSolution sends my stations data to Wunderground every 15 minutes.

FYI: Ambient weather (www.ambientweather.com) has a good package deal for all types of weather stations that includes the Davis weather logger and their proprietary virtual weather station. The data logger is required to upload your stations current conditions to the internet. The price for this package is $139 which is about $30 less than you can get the logger from Davis for....plus your get their free virtual weather station software.

I am working on getting mine on Wunderground right now too. I got Weatherlink for Christmas and waiting for the WG admin to email me back to get me all set up. Have my ID and password already. I can't get my info to download automatically every 30min (my setting), what am I missing? I asked my hubby about the data logger and he said he installed it in the base station. Anyone familiar with Weatherlink?

If you just signed up to Wunderground, it will take 24 hours before you start seeing the data on their site. Once the data finally hits their site, it should be current.[/b]

Been at this for 8 days, finally am sending emails and commencing to calling. I am trying to learn this but am in over my head on this software.
May have hubby take it back and get me Ambient Weather. Will see how I do tomorrow on the phone. :roll: Hate to do this, he really pinched some pennies to get me this software for Christmas. :)

Robert Dewey

01-09-2005, 11:21 PM

Originally posted by Carrie Halliday+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Carrie Halliday)</div>Originally posted by rdewey+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rdewey)<!--QuoteBegin-Carrie Halliday@
<!--QuoteBegin-Austin Ivey
Putting your weather station on Weather underground is a good deal. They give you a free member account when you setup your station on their page which means no pop-ups or imbedded ads.

I use WxSolution version 1.6 connected to my Davis Vantage Pro. WxSolution sends my stations data to Wunderground every 15 minutes.

FYI: Ambient weather (www.ambientweather.com) has a good package deal for all types of weather stations that includes the Davis weather logger and their proprietary virtual weather station. The data logger is required to upload your stations current conditions to the internet. The price for this package is $139 which is about $30 less than you can get the logger from Davis for....plus your get their free virtual weather station software.

I am working on getting mine on Wunderground right now too. I got Weatherlink for Christmas and waiting for the WG admin to email me back to get me all set up. Have my ID and password already. I can't get my info to download automatically every 30min (my setting), what am I missing? I asked my hubby about the data logger and he said he installed it in the base station. Anyone familiar with Weatherlink?

If you just signed up to Wunderground, it will take 24 hours before you start seeing the data on their site. Once the data finally hits their site, it should be current.[/b]

Been at this for 8 days, finally am sending emails and commencing to calling. I am trying to learn this but am in over my head on this software.
May have hubby take it back and get me Ambient Weather. Will see how I do tomorrow on the phone. :roll: Hate to do this, he really pinched some pennies to get me this software for Christmas. :)[/b][/quote]

Yikes, you might want to double check the return policy on where you bought the software. Almost every place I have been to will not accept software returns... I have been in many lines where people are trying to return some sort of software, only to be shot down by the store manager... I guess they have to do that though, to prevent pirating, but what if the disc is scratched or in your case, that version of the software is defective?

Austin Ivey

01-09-2005, 11:27 PM

Originally posted by Carrie Halliday+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Carrie Halliday)</div>Originally posted by rdewey+--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(rdewey)<!--QuoteBegin-Carrie Halliday@
<!--QuoteBegin-Austin Ivey
Putting your weather station on Weather underground is a good deal. They give you a free member account when you setup your station on their page which means no pop-ups or imbedded ads.

I use WxSolution version 1.6 connected to my Davis Vantage Pro. WxSolution sends my stations data to Wunderground every 15 minutes.

FYI: Ambient weather (www.ambientweather.com) has a good package deal for all types of weather stations that includes the Davis weather logger and their proprietary virtual weather station. The data logger is required to upload your stations current conditions to the internet. The price for this package is $139 which is about $30 less than you can get the logger from Davis for....plus your get their free virtual weather station software.

I am working on getting mine on Wunderground right now too. I got Weatherlink for Christmas and waiting for the WG admin to email me back to get me all set up. Have my ID and password already. I can't get my info to download automatically every 30min (my setting), what am I missing? I asked my hubby about the data logger and he said he installed it in the base station. Anyone familiar with Weatherlink?

If you just signed up to Wunderground, it will take 24 hours before you start seeing the data on their site. Once the data finally hits their site, it should be current.[/b]

Been at this for 8 days, finally am sending emails and commencing to calling. I am trying to learn this but am in over my head on this software.
May have hubby take it back and get me Ambient Weather. Will see how I do tomorrow on the phone. :roll: Hate to do this, he really pinched some pennies to get me this software for Christmas. :)[/b][/quote]

Carrie,

Go to:
http://www.thunderheadtech.com/WxSolution/

You can download their Windows software program (make sure its compatible with your weather station) to upload your data to Wunderground. You can use it free for 20 days....then it costs $39 to buy.

If you buy the ambient internet package it will cost you at least $79.

After all my aforementioned Weatherlink problems, I'm using WxSolution and its working great.