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Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -1- 03/07/06 Virtual Weather Station User's Manual For Davis Instruments Vantage Pro, Vantage

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -10- 03/07/06 Manufacturer Part Number Virtual Weather Station Reference Texas Weather Instruments

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -100- 03/07/06 Term Definition sun just disappears below the sea level horizon. In Great Britain, th

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -101- 03/07/06 Air speed Number and description Features kph mph 9 strong gale branches break from t

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -11- 03/07/06 6 Virtual Weather Station Base Edition Features 6.1 The Assistant Menu Shortcut: Help

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -12- 03/07/06 Figure 3 - Calibration 6.4 Precision Menu Shortcut: Settings uu Precision Precision is

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -13- 03/07/06 will automatically close. Virtual Weather Station will begin updating when all of the s

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -14- 03/07/06 Figure 8 – Stationless Operation 6.5.8.2 Displaying METAR Data in the Stationless Mode

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -15- 03/07/06 ^wsdescription^ For more information regarding tags, please reference Section 8.13.1. 6

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -16- 03/07/06 Corrections Virtual Weather Station includes a celestial calendar for calculating sunris

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -17- 03/07/06 6.10 Weather Displays Table 3 provides a list of the weather displays and a description

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -18- 03/07/06 Description Display 6.10.4 Cable TV Slide 2 Designed exclusively for WeatherCentral Ca

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -19- 03/07/06 Description Display 6.10.9 Thermometer Thermometer gauge with rate of change arrow and

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -2- 03/07/06 Ambient, LLC License Agreement READ CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SOFTWARE License Agreeme

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -20- 03/07/06 Description Display 6.10.13 Strip Chart Provides rapid real-time data (data is not sto

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -21- 03/07/06 6.11 Customizing Displays 6.11.1 Adding and Deleting Displays Menu Shortcut: Modify Di

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -22- 03/07/06 Attribute Description Add second plot Adds a second plot to the graph or strip chart.

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -23- 03/07/06 6.11.3.4.6 Reset Display at Midnight Memory leaks may occur with some operating systems

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -24- 03/07/06 10 minutes. Once the database reaches 20,000 records, is automatically resized to 15,000

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -25- 03/07/06 Column Number Parameter 47 Solar Radiation Rate 48 Wind Chill Rate 49 Indoor Heat Ind

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -26- 03/07/06 Channel Part No. Description Where to Buy THC-268 Waterproof temperature probe for

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -27- 03/07/06 6.15.3 Jpeg File Naming Convention To view the filename for the jpeg image, right-mouse

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -28- 03/07/06 season. The reason for the change was to improve upon the current WCT Index used by the

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -29- 03/07/06 Figure 19 - Rainfall Settings 6.16.9 Dominant Wind Direction Counter Menu Shortcut: Se

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -3- 03/07/06 Table of Contents 1 GENERAL DESCRIPTION ...

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -30- 03/07/06 6.17.1 Daily Highs and Lows Daily highs and lows are calculated by Virtual Weather Stat

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -31- 03/07/06 No. Parameter Name Measured by Station Calculated by Station Calculated by VWS Pressure

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -32- 03/07/06 No. Parameter Name Measured by Station Calculated by Station Calculated by VWS 42 Chan

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -33- 03/07/06 No. Parameter Name Measured by Station Calculated by Station Calculated by VWS 78 Indo

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -34- 03/07/06 No. Parameter Name Measured by Station Calculated by Station Calculated by VWS Low3 110

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -35- 03/07/06 No. Parameter Name Measured by Station Calculated by Station Calculated by VWS 128 Moo

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -36- 03/07/06 the text field (with the exception of the predominant wind direction). The display inclu

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -37- 03/07/06 You can create your own icons to replace the icons provided with the distribution kit. M

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -38- 03/07/06 sound when the rain rate is exceeded, or a bird chirp when the temperature is high enoug

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -39- 03/07/06 Outdoor Temperature Outdoor Humidity Wind Direction @ Wind Speed 6.26 Rainwise Settings

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -4- 03/07/06 6.8 MULTIPLE STATION SETTINGS...

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -40- 03/07/06 6.28 Vantage Pro / Weather Link Settings 6.28.1 Vantage Pro Settings Menu Shortcut: Se

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -41- 03/07/06 6.29.5.3 Cancel Download Data Cancels the current download 6.29.5.4 Last Download Reco

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -42- 03/07/06 continue the WeatherLink database. Enter Your Station Directory, the location of the Wea

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -43- 03/07/06 7 Virtual Weather Station Pro Edition 7.1 File Settings (Data Logging) Menu Shortcut:

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -44- 03/07/06 Wind Chill 76.3 2:18pm 60.0 3:09pm 63.4 In Heat Ix

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -45- 03/07/06 7.1.6 Summary Files This file provides a summary of the average, high and low values fo

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -46- 03/07/06 Column Identifier Prototype (°F) 15 Barometer (in) Floating Point 16 Total Rain (in

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -47- 03/07/06 Column Identifier Prototype Vantage Pro) 25 Channel 3 Humidity (WMR-968/WMR-918, Davi

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -48- 03/07/06 7.4.1 Modifying the Monthly Climate Report Menu Shortcut: Settings uu Monthly Archive

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -49- 03/07/06 8 Virtual Weather Station Internet Edition Virtual Weather Station Internet Edition fea

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -5- 03/07/06 6.16.8 Rainfall Settings ...

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -50- 03/07/06 Figure 42 – Webpage example created with the Virtual Weather Station Weather Website Bui

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -51- 03/07/06 8.4 Connecting to the Internet Most Internet service providers provide the following fe

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -52- 03/07/06 8.7 General FTP Settings The following general FTP Settings allow you to control each F

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -53- 03/07/06 Parameter / Display Color Spectrum High/Low Wind Direction Thermometer Gauge Graph Alpha

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -54- 03/07/06 Parameter / Display Color Spectrum High/Low Wind Direction Thermometer Gauge Graph Alpha

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -55- 03/07/06 Parameter / Display Color Spectrum High/Low Wind Direction Thermometer Gauge Graph Alpha

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -56- 03/07/06 Parameter / Display Color Spectrum High/Low Wind Direction Thermometer Gauge Graph Alpha

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -57- 03/07/06 Parameter / Display Color Spectrum High/Low Wind Direction Thermometer Gauge Graph Alpha

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -58- 03/07/06 Parameter / Display Color Spectrum High/Low Wind Direction Thermometer Gauge Graph Alpha

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -59- 03/07/06 Parameter / Display Color Spectrum High/Low Wind Direction Thermometer Gauge Graph Alpha

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -6- 03/07/06 6.29.6 Reset ...

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -60- 03/07/06 Parameter / Display Color Spectrum High/Low Wind Direction Thermometer Gauge Graph Alpha

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -61- 03/07/06 To create a template file, save the template with an htx file extension with any text ed

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -62- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description ^vmh###^ vmh = Virtual Weather Monthly High ^vmd###^ vmd = Virtu

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -63- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description Temperature. Example: ^mtrKLAX005^ ^mtr005ABCD^ ABCD = METAR iden

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -64- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description Example: ^mtrKLAX014^ ^mtr015ABCD^ ABCD = METAR identifier, 015 s

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -65- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description # = location (1 to 15) ^almmtd#^ almmtd - Almanac normal month-t

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -66- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description # = station number (1 to 30) meso_loc# meso_loc – Mesonet Station

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -67- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description # = station number (1 to 30) meso_barom# meso_loc – Mesonet Stati

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -68- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description pa = Pacific Ocean, USA, Mexico and Central America at = Atlantic

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -69- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description # = station number (1 to 4) forecast_country# 5-Day Forecast count

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -7- 03/07/06 8.8 VIRTUAL WEATHER STATION JPEG IMAGES...

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -70- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description Mostly Cloudy Mostly Sunny Partly Cloudy Partly Sunny Rain S

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -71- 03/07/06 Tag Name Description background color, based on Figure 47 - Color spectrum for the HTML

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -72- 03/07/06 Figure 49 - Creating Web Pages with Virtual Weather Station Tags 8.14 HTML File Tags F

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -73- 03/07/06 Figure 51 - Ftp Login Panel This information will be permanently saved for automaticall

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -74- 03/07/06 server). Menu Shortcut: Internet uu FTP Upload File (Send) Figure 53 - Sending Files

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -75- 03/07/06 messages and attachments when alarm limits are exceeded. You can also send periodic weat

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -76- 03/07/06 and as inputs to global weather models for both analysis and forecasting. It is this glo

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -77- 03/07/06 Figure 59 – METAR Icon Display Settings 8.17.6 METAR Settings Menu Shortcut: Modify Di

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -78- 03/07/06 8.17.8.1 METAR Summary Text Report The METAR summary text reports are located in the fo

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -79- 03/07/06 by registering your weather station or select the following link: http://www.wundergroun

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -8- 03/07/06 8.18.1.7.2.1 Longitude and Latitude ...

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -80- 03/07/06 Text reports are generated for each location (numbered 1 through 15) in the following lo

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -81- 03/07/06 Figure 68 – Five Day Forecast 8.18.1.6 Mesonet Mesonet is a combination of the words &q

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -82- 03/07/06 To create a map background, you must determine the longitude and latitude of all four co

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -83- 03/07/06 8.18.1.7.3.4.1 Title and Date Stamp This feature adds a title and a time and date stamp

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -84- 03/07/06 Figure 74 – APRS Settings 8.19 Internet Status and Log Menu Shortcut: Help uu Interne

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -85- 03/07/06 ü Control sprinkler systems after a rain. ü Control your irrigation system ü Monitor

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -86- 03/07/06 http://www.ambientweather.com/ExtDesc.asp?id=113 9.2 WeatherVoice (Internet Version of

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -87- 03/07/06 Table 17 – Text to Wav File Conversion takes tag information and converts it to text fi

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -88- 03/07/06 9.2.4.9 Sample Rate The sample rate of the converted speech (wav) file. The output samp

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -89- 03/07/06 9.3 WeatherFlash (Internet Version of Virtual Weather Station Required) WeatherFlash i

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -9- 03/07/06 1 General Description Virtual Weather Station is a software package that allows you to c

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -90- 03/07/06 http://www.AmbientWeather.com/WxFlash/ 9.4 Image Salsa ImageSalsa captures images from

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -91- 03/07/06 Problem Solution Your serial port is defective Your weather station serial port is defe

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -92- 03/07/06 Problem Solution The celestial calculator is a close approximation of the sunrise and s

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -93- 03/07/06 Problem Solution cause long delays. The font size is incorrect after changing the font

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -94- 03/07/06 Problem Solution The Daily Rain is not correct The program must be running at midnight

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -95- 03/07/06 Problem Solution If your computer is running other utilities, the clock speed may be af

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -96- 03/07/06 Problem Solution 4.00.950 Install Service Pack 1 first, then install the Kernel 32

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -97- 03/07/06 Problem Solution System Socket Web Server Error Check to make sure you are connected t

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -98- 03/07/06 10.1 Advanced Communication Troubleshooting Tips for Oregon Scientific Weather Stations

Virtual Weather Station User's Guide -99- 03/07/06 Term Definition GUST A sudden significant increase in or rapid fluctuations of wind sp