Wednesday, September 19, 2007

presented on weather station

At the RASC Toronto Centre's members' night meeting, I delivered a presentation on the Oregon Scientific eb313hg Portable Weather Station. I relayed the details of the "group buy" offer made by Radio World. Got 2 people signed up on the spot...

Theresa and Brian came out. They brought their Kestrel 4000 weather station—the Ferrari of portable weather analysers! We showed it beside my "low end" unit.

itemKestrelO.S.
model4000eb313hg
costUS$400*CDN$45
batteries2x AAA2x CR 2032
battery life12 months+5 months
air pressureyesno
pressure trendyesyes
altitudeyesno
relative humidityyesyes
wind speedyesno
temperatureyesyes
dewpointyesno
date timeyesyes
moon phasenoyes
backlit displayyesyes

Good questions during the presentation. For example, one person asked if my Oregon portable unit used the atomic time clock signals. I said I didn't think so and promised to remove the batteries to try it.

* Not that that means anything...

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Uploaded the presentation to the companion site (390 KB). Originally, a PowerPoint 2003 file; converted to Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF). Enjoy.

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