Cumulus Support

HI,

Firstly I would like to introduce myself as i'm new here and new to the whole home weather station thing.

I recently bought a Waters & Stanton W-8681 MkII station, I have not set it up yet and was looking for some advice. I'm not 'technically daft' I make a living as a 3rd line Technical Support Engineer, however after some reading around on the net I have seen a lot of mention that the LCD panel has to have a line of sight to the weather station in order for it to receive data.

I was under the impresion that as the weather station is broadcasting the data at 876Mhz radio frequencey that this will not require line of sight.

Can anybody clear this up for me, in my head the whole line of sight makes no sense but I just want to be sure before I go to the bother of climbing up on the roof to mount the station on the chimney stack.

Thanks very much in advance,

Mark L

This appears to be the usual Fine Offset station - so "sight" is not required, just the usual RF limitations
(don't mount either end of the link in a grounded metal box )

I thought that would be the case, but the other post I had seen got me doubting myself

I guess I should say I choose to post in these forums as I plan to use cumulus software as it seems the best I have seen on the internet. I look forward to be part of this community and hope to be able to offer my own advice someday.

Thanks again

Hi Mark and welcome.

like most users, i have found the range of my FOSH good over 20m and thru 2 rooms, albeit wooden dividers.

But you should take the usual precautions to maximise the signal. Height, height and height.

If you do plan to run over an extended range then look at aerial enhancement. Loads of stuuf here in the forum.

Mine runs at about 5m so is high enough but also allows access, albeit on a shed roof.

Its not ideal for the wind sensor but makes it easy to get bugs out of the rain gauge and replace batteries every 18 months so far !

Good luck.