RE: Why are the reports useless?

From: David St. John (david@windcall.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Fri Jul 23 1999 - 13:20:16 PDT


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From: "David St. John" <david@windcall.com-DeleteThis>
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Subject: RE: Why are the reports useless?
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:20:16 -0700
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> How about having COTW always report the wind, even when it is below
> threshold. Sometimes, a light breeze, or the right temperature is a good
> indicator that it will blow later in the day.

That's something we'd like to have too. The only way to do this is to
actually lower the threshold on the windtalkers, which would drastically
increase the number of messages sent, and would increase our costs (and
therefore the rates we'd have to charge) considerably. The good news is
that our next-generation sensor will use a different transmission technology
and will allow us to hopefully set the thresholds at 0 mph for all sites.

--
David St. John
Call of the Wind
http://www.windcall.com/



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