The anemometer is mounted about halfway up a 5-foot mast, itself held up by a 3-foot tripod. The wireless transmitter is mounted below the anemometer. If you look in the background, you can see a second anemometer; it's from our older Davis Weather Monitor II. It has worked great since 1996, and we have it in our den to display weather data to more than one room!
A slightly different view of the anemometers with the antennas that also share the masts. The antenna installer put up the first anemometer in 1999; I did the second one myself. Note the wireless transmitter's antenna points down; the base unit is inside the house in our upstairs office.
Now we're back on the ground. Here's the view of the integrated sensor suite. The rain gauge is atop the radiation shield, which houses the temperature and humidity/dew point sensors. The solar-powered transmitter is pointed south to maximize the daily recharging by sunlight, and unlike the roof unit, the antenna points upward. On the shelf by the rain gauge is the solar radiation sensor. The sensors are mounted at the top of a 10-foot mast which I hammered (in the middle of winter mind you) about 2 feet into the ground. While it rocks a bit in the wind, it still works great! The mast is around 25 feet away from the house in the middle of our back yard.
The base unit of the Davis Vantage Pro 2 sits atop our desktop computer monitor. A USB line off the back of the unit allows the Weatherlink 5.5.1 software to automatically download the weather data and update the web page. While the sensors are atop and in the back yard, the base unit is in the office which faces the front yard. We've had no problems at all with reception through the roof or the house. We're very pleased with the wireless Vantage Pro 2!
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