{"id":1297,"date":"2006-08-16T14:48:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-16T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2006-08-16T14:48:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-16T14:48:00","slug":"quick-dirty-aprs-wx-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/16\/quick-dirty-aprs-wx-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick &#038; Dirty: APRS WX Station?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/aprs_logo.gif\" align=left> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/pictures\/usaradar.gif\" align=left>I want to put together an inexpensive APRS WX station for my dad, KD6EUG, to install up at his cabin in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-data.com\/city\/Mi-Wuk-Village-California.html\">Mi-Wuk Village<\/a>, CA.  There was an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pvrc.org\/Newsletters\/Extended_Content\/Feb05\/weather.htm\">article<\/a> in the July 2006 <i>QST<\/i> that talked about one solution.  But the big price tag comes with the weather station itself.<\/p>\n<p>Today I found a nice, inexpensive solution from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tapr.org\/kits_t238plus.html\">TAPR<\/a>, the T-238+MODEM2 Kit.  Not only is it APRS ready, it also incorporates it&#8217;s own TNC.  The weather station components that it works with, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aagelectronica.com\/aag\/index.html\">1-Wire\u2122 Weather Instrument Kit V3.0<\/a>, and also doesn&#8217;t break the bank.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see how this project comes together.  For the radio, I will use either an FT-1500M (ideal for the job) or an HTX-242 if I can ensure it&#8217;s capable of the task.  I like  the W3BW (see QST article) solution of using a gel cell with a trickle charger.  Should the shore power drop out, the APRS weather station should function for quite some time.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of WX stations&#8230;. you can go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ni0l.com\/wx\/wx.html\">here<\/a> to see the weather at the home QTH.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.aprsworld.net\/map\/near-switch.phtml?name=Mi-Wuk+Village%2C+CA&#038;maps=yes\">APRS activity<\/a> around Mi-Wuk, I&#8217;m seeing the following nearby stations:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/db.aprsworld.net\/datamart\/switch.php?call=K6TUO-3&#038;table=position&#038;maps=yes&#038;search=Search\">K6TUO-3<\/a>: looks like a digipeater in Sonora, sponsored by the Tuolumne County Amateur Radio &#038; Electronics Society (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lodelink.com\/tcares\/index.html\">TCARES<\/a>).<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/db.aprsworld.net\/datamart\/switch.php?call=K6NFL&#038;table=position&#038;maps=yes&#038;search=Search\">K6NFL<\/a>: over in the town of Arnold, Dave has a very nice <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnoldweather.com\/\">wx page<\/a>.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/db.aprsworld.net\/datamart\/switch.php?call=KE6KYI&#038;table=position&#038;maps=yes&#038;search=Search\">KE6KYI<\/a>: located in Groveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to put together an inexpensive APRS WX station for my dad, KD6EUG, to install up at his cabin in Mi-Wuk Village, CA. There was an article in the July 2006 QST that talked about one solution. But the big price tag comes with the weather station itself. Today I found a nice, inexpensive &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/2006\/08\/16\/quick-dirty-aprs-wx-station\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quick &#038; Dirty: APRS WX Station?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[30,115,135,179,187,259],"class_list":["post-1297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio","tag-aprs","tag-htx-242","tag-kd6eug","tag-packet-radio","tag-periodicals","tag-weather"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9vUOZ-kV","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.n0zb.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}