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W2MMD Weather Station

The weather station at the Clubhouse is a highly-customized set of Python code running on a Raspberry Pi computer. It reads and records the values of various sensors each minute and uses those values in several ways as described below. The Pi and several sensors are mounted inside of the Clubhouse and are connected to the outdoor sensors through a modified connection using CAT cable rather than the original telephone cable. This was provided using the outdoor-mounted box below that connects to the sensors and maps the multiple sensor lines to CAT connections. That box also provides two external ethernet connections into the Clubhouse network for use with AREDN radios and other future projects.

The weather station provides data to the APRS station which broadcasts the weather metrics as an APRS broadcast. It also populates the metrics on the weather station dashboard below. Temperature from other areas of the Clubhouse is provided by Raspberry Pi Zero computers connected to BME280 temperature sensors that communicate through Wi-Fi and update an Influx database running on the weather station Pi.

More information about the weather station is available here: https://wp.w2mmd.org/wp/aprs-weather-from-the-gcarc-clubhouse-2/

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      • Using DM-1701 CPS Program
      • Open GD77 on Baofeng DM1701
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      • Balloon Launch – 2025-03-17
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      • Fox in a Box Telemetry Receiver
      • Othernet Satellite Receiver
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    • Grounding Project
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    • Work and Test Bench
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    • AIS Ship Position Tracking
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