Outages
April 2008 – Findu/CWOP
server got changed and only impacted graphs; took me a couple of days to figure
it out and update it in VWSaprs.
March 2008 – updated antenna; much
better!
July 25, 2007 – Getting some
sporadic data drop outs… I am
planning to upgrade the small, “stub” antenna on the
June 2-10, 2007 –
Extremely high false rainfall indications. Finally had a chance to open up the
bucket on June 10. Found a paper wasp nest the size of a tennis ball,
and a second one being built on the tilting bucket. Removed.
cleaned, sealed, and restarted.
March 27-30, 2007 – My personal
thanks to the squirrel who chewed through the temp/dew point and anemometer
cables on the sensor stack. Why you were looking for peanuts on a 25ft pole, I
will never know. Patched and restarted.
December 7 to 8, 2006
– My bad. Was
making some fixes on another computer on my network, changed some DNS settings,
and forget to ip release and renew my address on the
WX machine. Caught and resolved.
July 2006 - Still getting drop-outs overnight... turns out that something has changed in the neighborhood signal-wise....maybe some new cell antennas on the water tower? Anyway, despite being in one place for several years, moving the Vantage Pro console closer to a window seems to have significantly improved things. Resolved July 26
June 25 - July 2, 2006 (Approx) - Turned out I had a faulty anemometer cable that was aggravated by the battery change out. Some bogus temp and rainfall events on the 2nd when I was diagnosing/fixing the cable. Resolved.
June, 2006 - Finally had a chance to replace the lithium battery in the outside sensor... should address some of the spotty data that I have been seeing overnight.
January, 2006 - We have a "bad
node" in my neighborhood, and both myself and my
neighbor have had spotty Charter cable modem access starting January 14, hence
the data gaps. Resolved.
Events
March 2008 – Updated the receive
antenna on the
June 2006 - Completed
NWS SKYWARN training.
On-going issues with Charter (why isn't your page prettier?)
As much as I love VWS's ability to generate really nice, pretty, web pages, my page links to the APRS servers to generate graphs. Why? Because generating and maintaining my own WX page on Charter.net was more work than it was worth.
The old page would occasionally go "down" due to a memory leak on Charter's Apache server -- VWS would generate, send, and over-write the same number of jpegs (each roughly the same size) with each update into a nice pretty web page I had created. All worked well, but for some reason the overall quota usage of my Charter web space would increase slowly over several months until I max'd out (10MB) and the only solution was to re-create the entire account. Until Charter can fix this issue (and I usually have to work my way up to Tier 3 or Tier 4 phone support to find someone who even understands the problem, let alone the solution) I will use the APRS and Weather Underground Servers. Not as pretty, but the data is all there, and the whole thing takes about 40 KB of space (and stays that way).