Station Log

Station/Data Problems

1/7/08 Weather station offline (wind only) from 11:10am to 12:15pm, OFL error fix, cable run in earthed copper pipe
26/6/08 Have bought 10mm copper tubing to run Anemometer cable in
26/6/08 Data - wind OFL from 13:55 to 14:20 and 14:40 to 15:00 approx
25/6/08 Anemometer OFL readings again, looking into copper tube, rather than cat 5, screened
6/6/08 TX 20 replaces TX12 anemometer at 11.15am
26/5/08 till late 29/5/08 Data problems please be aware wind data may not be reliable
26/5/08 Anemometer looks to have gone faulty again / or interference, cat 5 required (ordered)
19/5/08 Station been up and running for one year today
12/5/08 WS2300 cabled to sensors now, updates every 8 secs
29/4/08 Some data loss 3am to 7am, wireless communication lost
11/4/08 Data loss 2am to 7am, wireless communication lost
16/3/08 Replacement anemometer fitted data lost from 13:05 to 13:45 approx
              Excellent service from SKYVIEW, no quibble replacement.
14/3/08 WS2300 wind speed reading low or none, direction ok, replacement anemometer ordered
              ring magnet broke up on fan.
8/3/08 PC restart (unknown) approx 3am and corrupted data files for march, restored from
              backup and logger. Data loss from 3.01am to 3.48am.
7/3/08 Garden tidy, sensor catching direct sunlight for a couple of hours in afternoon, fixed
4/8/07 Data Loss 3pm to 4-30pm and 5:15pm to 6.45pm approx
27/7/07 Data Loss 5am to noon approx

General/Website/Hosting

20/7/08 Streaming / beach cam down for 1hr 30 mins, RCB tripped
12/7/08 Added Uk Shipping forcast and help/donation links
4/7/08 Pinnacle Capture card fitted, improved streaming image
12/6/08 Testing Streaming with beach cam, daytime only
29/5/08 Added Auroara Activity - Northern Hemisphere to astronomy page
27/5/08 Added Solar X-rays / Geomagnetic Field to astronomy page
22/5/08 Beach webcam up - testing and adjusting
18/5/08 Headland Hotel, kindly donated a webcam for beach view, coming soon
13/5/08 Permission and Licence granted - Tide Page online, graph for today + 6 days tides
12/5/08 Applied for permission to display tide times from UKHO / Bellfield Software
10/5/08 New, Pond Cam online plus compare page, yesterday to last year graphs
7/5/08 Added print feature to months tide table page
5/5/08 New tide page and script, gives day tide graph and current month tides table
1/5/08 Added extra graphs page
20/4/08 Added photo banner top of page, world day/night map and surfing contest page
19/4/08 Corrected minor issues with monthly data display
13/4/08 Added Contact and Logo pages to site
9/4/08 Installed USB 2 PCI card for new SweeX webcam, webcam now on same PC again
7/4/08 Replacement Sweex webcam fitted
6/4/08 site transfered to www.newquayweather.com
1/4/08 Obtained newquayweather.com domain, currently re-directed to existing site
25/3/08 Sweex Webcam failure, using lower resolution cam till replacement arrives
20/3/08 My website host had server issues approx 5 hrs, no data lost
16/3/08 Weatherbonk page added, showing Cornwall and UK.
15/3/08 Theme and style switcher options added plus Data by monthly page and log updated.
12/3/08 Working on Newquay tides page
11/3/08 UK Earthquake and new mobile page added
8/3/08 GuestBook, new gallery script and RSS/Wap Pages added.
7/3/08 This station log page added
2/3/08 Site converted to php, thanks ken
29/2/08 Change went without a hitch, no data lost.
29/2/08 Changing ISP there may be no updates between 8am and 10pm, no data will be lost.
27/2/08 Added Station log page
25/2/08 Added Buoy page
18/5/07 Station up and running

Things to do

Add script for hi/low tides for 12 months using WXTide
Improve surfing events page
Pan and Tilt unit required for beach cam streaming, to allow full beach view when sun not in shot