EMWIN

[Joey Ketcham]

I've read about EMWIN over the years, but I'm not 100% sure on what I need hardware wise and software wise to get EMWIN on my computer.

What hardware/software would I need to do so and for what price does it cost to do this?

Thanks,

Joey

[Tyler Allison]

depends if you are okay with getting EMWIN via the internet, or if you want a satellite dish in case the Internet goes *boom*

Rob Dale is the guy to talk too...he's a member here (rdale) and his software and services are available here: http://sky.radioweather.us/realemwin.html

[rdale]

Internet has been very reliable lately and is certainly cheaper... A dish will run you about a grand, but then you don't worry about any connections or someone else's dish because it's all in your own backyard.

- Rob

[Joey Ketcham]

Yeah I looked at the hardware for the EMWIN and that's an expensive route, for now I'd probably go with internet based.

What software would I have to buy to get it all going?

[Dan Cook]

rdale's Real emwin is pretty straight forward. I used it briefly last year and enjoyed it.

http://radioweather.us/realemwin-v17.exe

[Ryan Szekeres]

I use Weather Message with the internet feed. http://www.wxmesg.com/ Usually beats the weather radio. By a few seconds only but still beats it! :lol:

[Morgan Palmer]

I have used Rob's Real Emwin with the internet connections for the better part of a year now, and desire nothing else.

I had been through the Weatherdish fiasco, which cost me a thousand bucks for a system full of bugs (they're out of business now)... and found Rob's program to be much more reliable, and perfect to meet my needs.

Only one time in the past year or so has there been an internet feed outage and that was for about an hour or so. It appeared to be a network problem, having nothing to do with the program.

Enjoy! I do! 8)

Morgan