[wxsig] Lost Wind Direction

[William Beals]

Butch:

Hmm...  This is a new one to me, but it does look like you may be on to
something.  Can you tell me what wind sensor you have.  There are two kinds
out there.  Best way to tell is during the programming sequence for the wind
direction do you have to turn the wind vane around three times then point
north, or  are you just asked to point north?

I've been using modem mode for many years now (and suspect many others have
too), so am pretty sure it is not an "everywhere" bug.  Hence I'm suspecting
there may be something else about your setup that when combined with Modem
mode is making this happen.  Some basic questions:

1) What software revision are you using.
2) Are you on findu.com?  If so, what callsign?  I get to see some good
debug data if so.
3) What other sensors do you have?
4) How long are your cables?
5) I get the impression the station worked for a while, anything change from
when it used to work?
6) Does the wind direction error counter increment on the error display
page?

will

-----Original Message-----
From: wxsig-bounces at lists.tapr.org [mailto:wxsig-bounces at lists.tapr.org] On
Behalf Of Butch Seaman
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 8:13 AM
To: TAPR Weather Station SIG Mailing List
Subject: RE: [wxsig] Lost Wind Direction

Here is something else I have learned after doing a little testing.  It
appears that I lose the wind direction on the 238+ display when i have
selected MODEM in the UART settings menu.   It looks as though if I set this
to TNC-DIR for example that the wind direction on the display returns.By
this I mean I get no wind direction on the LCD display in modem mode (e.g.
NNE, SE, N)  I am sending this data out over my radio (APRS) so it needs to
be set to modem if I understand things correctly.  If I am wrong about any
of this will someone please clear things for me.Any help on this issue would
really be appreciated... 
Butch Seaman > From: butchseaman at hotmail.com> To: wxsig at lists.tapr.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:44:55 -0500> Subject: [wxsig] Lost Wind Direction>
> I noticed today that I have lost wind direction.  Temp, MPH all seem to
work fine.   I tried resetting my sensors but that did not fix the issue.
I need a suggestion of what this might be or where to look for the
problem...>  > Thanks>  > Butch Seaman >
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