Nerd in the Sky Detail Page

My best man dubbed my weather station the "Nerd in the Sky" when he saw it last fall during my wedding, and the name has stuck ever since.

Here are the details:

Standard off the shelf Radio Shack WMR-968 Wireless weather station, with slight modifications. I added a Davis passive radiation shield to the temperature sensors to keep the sun from beating directly on the sensor. I was seeing highs of 100 plus degrees, which seemed ridiculous for northern Vermont, even in the summer. The outside half is shown below, mounted on a fence post for our pool fence.

Here's a closeup of the sensors and mounting details:

The inside half is basically unmodified. It exports it's data to an old IBM Thinkpad 200Mhz Pentium MMX laptop, which runs the program Weather Display which collects the data, records it, and updates my webpage every 10 minutes. The laptop has a Linksys 802.11b wireless card which makes this possible without stringing wires everywhere throughout my house.

Here's the inside half, with the Radio Shack control head sitting next to an old 1941 Stewart Warner broadcast radio:

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