Weather Station W1BST
Our Lakes Region Repeater Association weather station is located at our repeater site on Bennett Hill, Walker Hill Road, Ossipee, New Hampshire.
The elevation of the weather station is 1280′. And broadcast telemetry into the APRS network for online viewing.
The town of Ossipee is located in the east-central part of the state, south of the White Mountains Region and extending to the Maine border. Ossipee’s elevation is 682′. It’s area is 75.3 miles
How many people get on the air and talk about the weather?
Weather is a part of our lives every day. If you are an amateur radio operator, then a weather monitor station is a MUST have. Most hams link their weather data to the CWOP servers.
CWOP says their observer program is a public-private partnership with three goals:
1) To collect weather data contributed by citizens.
2) To make these data available for weather services and homeland security.
3) To provide feedback to the data contributors so they have the tools to check and improve their data quality.
The number of North American CWOP stations sending data over the past several days is normally more than 7000 stations sending 50,000 to 75,000 observations every hour.
The number of world-wide citizen weather stations sending data to CWOP is shown increasing over the past decade.
CWOP members send their weather data by internet alone or internet-wireless combination to the findU server and then every five minutes, the data are sent from the findU server to the NOAA MADIS server.
The data undergo quality checking and then are distributed to users. There are over 800 different organizations using CWOP mesonet data.
Here is a partial list:
- NWS Weather Forecast Offices
- National Center for Environmental Prediction
- National Ocean Service
- National Transportation Safety Board
- National Center for Atmospheric Research
- Department of Homeland Security
- Denver Urban Drainage and Flood Control District
- Colorado Avalanche Information Center
- Kennedy Space Center
- NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
- University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- MIT Lincoln Laboratories
- University of Utah
- Penn State University
- Mississippi State University
- University of Alaska
- University of North Dakota
- Hampton University
- Texas A&M University
- University of Hawaii
- Florida State University
- Weather Underground