(200805.19)
Equipment I was expecting to show up on Friday never arrived, outside temperature was in the 100s over the weekend, the computer room, due to the towers I moved in for the sensors and WX station, was 102f degrees, and little was completed over the weekend.
If the equipment I am waiting for arrives today, and it is before it gets too hot, ARPSN will shut down for a short period of time while upgrades are incorporated; including installation of WeatherLink APRS.
I tried an experiment with the Davis VP2, hooked up to a Mac G4 tower running 10.3.9, with a Keyspan Serial to USB adapter using WeatherTracker Beta. The beta software had expired and I did not have time to download it again (dial-up was very slow). You can read about WeatherTracker here:
http://www.afterten.com/products/weathertracker/index.html
For 'all practical purposes' ARPSN is almost finished; from a model point of view, and what remains are (imo) 'rough edges', with seismic shed rebuild being number 1 and the paperwork number 2.
(fwiw/repeat) What is manifesting here is actually model construction, which will be used to reconstruct everything mentioned (here) using low-cost 'home-brew' methods. For example, in regard to a WX Station:
TAPR T-238+MODEM2 Kit - A Low-Cost APRS WeatherStation
http://www.tapr.org/kits_t238plus.htmlTecnologia Aplicada 1-Wire Weather Station
http://www.aagelectronica.com/aag/index.htmlWeather Software Supporting CWOP/APRSWXNET Protocol
http://home.comcast.net/~dshelms/cwop.htmlRabbit Powered 1-Wire Weather Station Controller
http://www.lightningnetwork.org/rabbitweather/XastirWIKI
http://www.xastir.org/wiki/index.php
[XASTIR is FREE for Mac OS X, freeBSD, Linux variants, Solaris, Windows, etc.]