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1. Select Stef Dale Select Start Tina Select Time Span Total Daba Pointa 73 When a database if you have been data ware housing you will need to unzip what you want to review is selected from the open window all of the menu selections will be enabled apr98log dbf Ac aug98log dbf feb98log dbf jul98log dbf ata lun98log dbf mar98log dbf may98log dbf oct97log dbf SKYWARN DATABASE While loading a database file a status bar will be displayed at the bottom of the graph window over the area of the horizontal scroll bar The data windows at the right side of the screen come alive when a database is loaded as well Skysamn fin TARASE WDA AAP SALME Outdoor Temperature Her 7 0071 0022 0 32 00 42 01 0220 02 ic a iT ar 0037 005 Bor 0205 meta Data from 88 04 01 at 00 01 58 to 88 04 01 at 11 50 32 otal Dia Paris 74 As soon as the database is opened its path and name will be displayed on the status bar at the top of the screen in the example you can see it says DATABASE OPEN C SKWARN DATA APR98LOG DBF You will also notice that the SELECT START DATE list box now has dates to select from you can scroll through the dates and select a data by double clicking on one In our example above we selected 98 04 01 April 1 1998 and a dataset start time of 00 01 59 and
2. True 3D Off Area Thick Lines OFF Ribbon Hide Graph 3D Pie Chart Graph Print gt 2D Bar Graph Print 3D Bar Graph Clear True 3D OFF This selection toggles 3D on and off in certain graphs Thick Lines OFF This selection switches between thick and thin graph lines Hide Graph This selection toggles the graph display on and off 55 Graph Print Mode Metering E mail Help Graph Menu ON Graph Time Span gt Time Labeling gt Graph Select gt Tool Bar Legends OFF Graph Resize Graph Type gt True 3D Off Thick Lines OFF Hide Graph Graph Print Mode Monochrome Graph Print Monochrome w Border Graph Clear Color Color w Border Graph Print This selection causes the current graph to be printed It is best for the graph to be displayed full screen for printing purposes All graphs except for the Wind Rose may be printed The Time Series graphs only print the view windows settings worth of data Graph Clear This selection clears all data up to the last 3 hours for the currently selected graph type It does NOT effect the last 72 hours worth of data which is retained separately The intent here is to provide a means to take the Wind direction data for instance and reset it from the current point in time 56 Metering E mail Help Compass gt Wind Speed gt Thermometers gt Lows Current Highs gt Compass Wind Speed Thermometers Lows Current Highs Compass Com
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4. 90 120 150 or 180 minutes Also selectable is the time markers as either 5 minute ticks or real time gradients as all graphs are updated every five 5 minutes real time gradients are spaced in 5 minute intervals All graphs can go from the default 1 3 screen foot print to a much larger 9 10s screen display which is the recommended size when doing graph printing Outdoor Temperature xiu D 1323 15 25 13 15 1304 1433 1443 1425 14 25 14 15 1404 1133 1143 1113 1123 1113 1204 1755 1245 1320 1320 1510 15DO 1450 1440 1420 1420 1410 1400 1130 1140 1320 1120 1340 1300 1230 1340 Last 180 minutes of data 1998 02 08 at 15 39 54 34 For every standard graph there is also its Time Series version of the base graph These Time Series graphs provide the same features as the normal graphs with the exception of the ability to scroll forward an backward through the last 72 hours of data using a horizontal scroll bar that comes on when Time Series graphs are selected Note that during Voice Spots the Time Series graph scroll bar is temporarily disabled The Prevailing Wind Direction Percentage and Wind Rose graphs which are also provided in Prevailing Wind Direction Time Series versions do not scroll they display all the data at one time In addition there is both the 3 Hour Meteogram Surface Graph display there is also the 72 Hour Spread Sheet display which are separate pop up screen displays of data Wind Rose Graph C
5. The first key areas of interest are the panels on the left labeled Data Logging Compress to Zip File Monthly Archive and Save Data To DAT File When Data Logging is set to Off all the other settings in this group are moot However if Data Logging is set to On then the other settings are important If Compress to Zip File is set to Yes then a monthly archive file is created and updated If the Monthly Archive Keeps Logs is selected then the DBF log files are retained monthly else they are deleted and would need to be extracted from the monthly Zip archive for reference The last setting Save Data To DAT File is really only of interest to those that are running in Complete Record mode it provides for the separate creation and update of a compressed file that retains the entire data returned from the instrument every five 5 minutes This permits the display of the Long Term data parameters that are not saved to the dBase file format log file The DAT file will save all data returned from any instrument and in any mode however it is really only of use in Complete Record mode It must also be noted that this 40 capability requires the release of a future version of the Report SWREPORT EXE module to decode the DAT file The Clock Settings panels provides a 12 or 24 hour clock supporting an offset from Greenwich time that is displayed on the GUI screen below the anemometer graphic button When enabled and running on a
6. single media distribution there will be multiple subdirectories and install programs If the software has been acquired via electronic transfer using BBS or Internet FTP it will be in a compressed format either in PKZIP compatible ZIP files or self extracting compressed EXE files When decompressed into a hand full of files which still include seven 7 or more DISKx ZIP files where the x in DISKx ZIP is 1 2 3 and higher These files may be unzipped onto individual floppy disks 1 7 or my be installed from the hard disk drive only unzip the ZIP files downloaded and then 1 5 first then later and separately the remaining two not the ZIP files contained within Next start the SETUP EXE program following all on screen prompts IMPORTANT YOU CAN NOT SIMPLY COPY THE SOFTWARE TO YOUR COMPUTER AND UNZIP THE COMPRESSED DISTRIBUTION FILES AND RUN THE SOFTWARE WITHOUT USING THE PROVIDED SETUP EXE PROGRAMS Before the software can be properly run and setup make sure that your Ultimeter is properly configured this includes all calibration required leap year settings date and time etc for those models that have such settings At the normal completion of the setup program and with a properly configured and attached Peet Bros weather station start the SkyWarn 2001 SKYW2001 EXE or SKYLOGGR EXE software by selecting the appropriate Icon according to the Ultimeter model being used Note that among the four models of Ultimeters so
7. 43 The Select Wx Parameters To Send button will bring up the e mail Wx Report Parameters screen It is important that selections be made from this screen if you want any weather data to be sent via e mail It is all rather self explanatory d r j H m Must Bims Note that for the Outdoor Temperature Feels parameter you must be using the NWS temperature bins The selection of temperature bins is made from the Voice Spots screen 44 The tab selection Hardware Calibration is provided for the user to provide offsets in case they find their weather station sensors to be off calibration and they would rather address the issue in software Be advised making use of this capability will cause the parameter s selected to display by the correction factor provided readings that will note coincide with the display of the instrument It is these readings displayed that will also be saved as recorded data from the instrument There is no way provided to later review the data saved and correlate to the offset factors you may select here We highly recommend that you have repaired or replace any sensors or control units that may be providing erroneous data rather than making use of this calibration capability as the error factor of a sensor in need of repair can erractically change plus or minus at any time and this calibration capability will not track such possib
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9. Date and Time notation in accordance with 1SO 8601 International Standard Date and Time Can be placed into Start Up for automatic starting with reboot of computer The splash screen will display for 30 seconds before the program starts Provided is both internal and external setup for the data monitoring programs THEORY OF OPERATION The SkyWarn 2001 software consists of a number of interactive MS Windows programs The three main utilities are 1 the interactive Graphical User Interface GUI near real time data monitor logger which provides on screen data display and graphing for up to the last 72 hours of data 2 a background logger monitor no graphing and very little on screen data display 3 a separate setup program for the configuration of the monitoring programs Also provided is an optional Report program for the Analysis Graphing and Report generation of data optionally saved during monitoring The Report program not originally planned for a the start of development is being provided as a install option at this time as it is not yet fully developed With respect to 1 and 2 above there are two main versions of each the first is are Internet aware SKYW2001 EXE and SKYLOGGR EXE and the second set SW2001NI EXE and SWLOGRNI EXE are NOT internet aware Then with respect to 1 there is both an Internet and Non Internet aware version SKY2001NB EXE that does NOT have the floating button bar We have found that in some M
10. Select 3D Bar graph Select Wind Speed to graph Select Wind Chill to graph Select Outside Temperature to graph Select Total Rainfall since midnight to graph Select Barometric Pressure to graph Select Humdity to graph Select Outside Temperature and Wind Chill to graph Select Heat Index to graph Select Dew Point to graph Select Wind Rose to graph Select to display graphs in 30 minute time span Select to display graphs in 60 minute time span Select to display graphs in 90 minute time span Select Time Series graph for currently displayed graph type Select Spread Sheet for up to last 72 hours of data Legends OFF This selection turns off the graphs legends Graph Resize This selection toggles the graph display from its default 1 3 screen display to virtually a full screen display and back again 54 Graph Type This selection provide the means to select Line Area Ribbon 2D Bar 3D Bar and 3D Pie Chart graph types in lieu of then default graph types for most graphs Not all of the provided graph types can be used with all graphs and some graphs like the Wind Rose can not be changed at all The 3D Pie Chart can for instance only be used with the Prevailing Direction Percentage wind graph Metering E mail Help Graph Menu ON Graph Time Span gt Time Labeling gt Graph Select gt Tool Bar Legends OFF Graph Resize Graph Type Line
11. air compared to the amount of water vapor the air can hold at that particular temperature and pressure 77 Snow a solid form of precipitation composed of ice crystals in complex hexagonal forms Temperature the degree of hot or cold of any substance measured by a Thermometer Thermometer an instrument for measuring temperature Wind air in motion relative to the earth s surface Wind Chill the cooling effect of any combination of temperature and wind expressed as a loss of body heat Also known as Wind Chill Index Wind Vane an instrument used to indicate the direction that the wind is blowing from 78 LAST MINUTE ADDITIONS GRAPH SAVE From the Graph menu the selection Graph Save will save the currently displayed graph as a BMP file to the SKYWARN GRAPHS directory with the file naming conventions of MMDDxxxx BMP where MM is Month DD is Day of Month and xxxx is 1 to 1000 rolling over to 1 every day at midnight If the graph is displayed full screen a larger BMP file is created 79
12. be achieved when the software is run on a system that has the basic operating system as shipped by Microsoft installed with any required service packs and no other software applications running This means no anti virus software no crash protection software no installation monitoring software etc You may of course have these and other softwares installed and running on your PC and still utilize the SkyWarn 2001 software however best results may not be achieved INTERNET CONNECTIVITY The software provides support for Internet connectivity in two very important areas First It supports web based time servers to keep your computer accurately set to the current Date and Time by making use of the Network Time Protocol RFC 1305 to synchronize with your choice of any one of thousands of world standard time servers over the Internet Also supported is the sending Internet e mail weather data messages by providing SMTP and POP3 capability which meets the complete specifications for POP3 RFC1725 and SMTP 0821 Supported are both automated messages of parameters the user selects and also provided is the capability to send messages that are manually edited to resemble NOAA Weather Watcher type reports via e mail The catch to the Internet support is that you must have a Winsock installed for versions of Windows prior to Windows 95 or the SkyWarn 2001 program will not run at all It is for this reason that we will provide multiple versions of
13. directory At 70 program load Missing or damaged INTERNET DBF file in x SKYWARN directory At 75 program load Missing or damaged ADDRESS LST file in xNSSKYWARN directory this file contains all e mail addresses for the program At 80956 10096 Missing or damaged CONFIG DBF files in x SKYWARN directory or missing or damaged currently active data files in x SKYWARN DATA directory or some problem having to do with the updating of information regarding the log files ERROR User Information Invalid The required LICENSE DAT file normally found in x NSSKYWARN is either damaged or is missing Copy the original from Installation Disk 1 or contact the author for a new copy GRID VBX is outdated An older version of GRID VBX not shipped with the software is in your path Find it and copy the version shipped with the software over it for all programs to use the newer version 64 Appendix B The following is a listing of warning messages that are displayed as required interlaced with alarm warnings in the drop down combo box above the Data Panels Graph display areas of the software Internet Time Server Error 0X 0X XXXX XX XX XX Unrecognized Error An Internet aware utility is running and your system is not currently connected to the internet or was not connected during an update period and has since be reconnected The best thing to do is exit the program make sure that your Internet connection is active and restart the prog
14. enabled the software will send a Wx Report when not connected to the web but enabled an error condition will occur and be trapped the software will return to sending Wx Reports when reconnected to the web So it is important that your configuration provides for the connection to the web prior to the interval selected for a Wx Report broadcast 37 EXAMPLE e mail Wx REPORT The following is a copy of an automated Wx Report actually generated by the software on the authors system addressed to himself The STATION line which we have underlined here is generated from the user provided information The Report Interval line which follows displays the interval selected by the user for the generation of Wx Reports The DATE line shows the Date and Time of the sending PC in UTC when the Wx Report is generated The next seventeen lines in this case are the weather parameters that have been enabled by the user for Wx Report generation As few as one parameter can be generated or as many as provided by the software the choice is yours X Delivered at request of n2ckh on raven Received from Steve cnjl 91 ppp cybercomm net 208 199 66 91 by raven cybercomm net 8 8 8 8 8 8 with SMTP id NAA27432 Sun 17 May 1998 13 48 25 0400 Date Sun 17 May 1998 13 48 25 0400 Message Id lt 199805171748 NAA27432 raven cybercomm net gt MIME Version 1 0 Content Type text plain charset us ascii From steve hajducek lt n2ckh cyberco
15. like this then your system needs work to be able to use for this application ERROR CODES Error 5 This error results from heavy use of an Internet browser program use or other operations that puts a strain on the computers resources It tends to occur most often during voice spots It is trapped but since data displayed and announced can become erroneous the program will be halted Error 13 This error can result from a number of different things the main two are as follows First make sure that you have the decimal place holder in regional settings set to a period not a comma as in some countries If not that it was probably from heavy CPU use like that of an Internet browser program use or other operations that puts a strain on the computers resources It tends to occur most often during voice spots It is trapped but since data displayed and announced can become erroneous the program will be halted 62 Error 48 This error results from not being able to load a specified DLL This is usually because the file specified DLL is missing or incorrect or there is not enough memory First try to reboot your computer and restart the software It that does not help Try reinstalling the software however be sure to back up any saved data Error 53 If this error occurs during Voice Spots or any alarm sound it is attributed to a missing WAV file Check the listing in Appendix C against the files in your WAV directory
16. object on and off Lows Current Highs E mail Help Compass Wind Speed Thermometers urent Highs Hide Todays Lows Hide Current Readings Hide Todays Highs Hide UnHide Todays Lows Toggles the entire Todays Lows data panel on and off Hide UnHide Current Readings Toggles the entire Current Readings data panel on and off Hide UnHide Todays Highs Toggles the entire Todays Highs data panel on and off 59 E mail 996 1998 N2CKH All REI Send Mail ECEIVE iul Send Mail This selection provides the ability to manually generate Weather Watcher type e mail messages in conjunction with Ultimeter provided weather data and user observations or to just plain send an e mail message Help Help Introduction Overview Menu Graphing Wind Instruments Thermometers Data Panels E mail About Help for the application is provided in a series of individual help files to keep the amount of memory usage down when accessing help We have segmented into Introduction Overview Menu Graphing Wind Instruments Thermometers Data Panels E mail About This selection displays the program about splash screen and user information This is nearly the same screen that is displayed at program start with the exception that in use as an about screen it does not display a status progress bar or the globe and is does not disappear until the user clicks on the OK button or presses the Enter ke
17. selections in detail in a horizontal vertical order in this section System MAGUS Graph Metering E r Setup Long Term Data Quit Ctrl x lt The System pull down menu selection provides access to the menu choices of Setup Long Term Data and Quit At program startup and until data analysis is completed only Quit is available for selection The Long Term selection will only be active if the instrument in use in Complete Record mode Note In Windows 95 98 and NT we recommend that the task bar be set to ALWAYS ON TOP and AUTOHIDE Setup This selection provides access to the five menu tabs one each for Serial Ports Environment Harware Calibration Voice Spots and Alarms These menu tabs are provided in all the monitoring utilities except those with TINY in their name and are exactly the same configuration as the separate SWCONFIG EXE configuration program The first configuration parameters of interest were addressed when the software was first started the selection and saving of the serial port This can be changed from the Serial Ports menu while the program is running and saved but it will NOT take effect until the program is next started all other parameters take effect inmediately upon being changed from with in an actively running monitoring program The selection tab Environment provides access to a number of setup menus settings are selected directly and from submenus
18. system Also provided are distinct sound alerts to announce alarm settings being exceeded At present however there is one characteristic that we are working on in that if during voice alerts Windows its self or another application sends sound data to the sound board the SkyWarn 2001 voice alerts stop for that particular interval Speaking of voice announcements our design approach allows for easy user substitution of alarm sounds and foreign language support As well as either male or female voices at present we only offer a male voice in English but will be glad to act as a depository for user submitted voice libraries We already have one substitute voice library in English and in a pleasing female voice that can be downloaded from our website More information on creating your own set of WAV files can be found in Appendix C herein SOFTWARE INSTALLATION The software when supplied on electronic media will either be on seven 7 or more 3 1 2 inch 1 44 floppy disks or one 100MB IOMEGA ZIP disk ISO 9660 format compact disk CD ROM is planned also as ordered The media can be found in an anti static bag inserted at the back of this user s manual In any case insert the first or only disk of the media set into the appropriate drive and start the SETUP EXE program then follow all of the on screen prompts For the floppy disk distribution there are additional setup programs on the disks labeled REPORT and SUPPLEMENTAL For
19. the GUI and Background monitoring programs to be used depending on your Internet connectivity or desires For example the main GUI interactive SkyWarn 2001 program SKYW2001 EXE provides Internet support and requires Winsock support to operate However the SW2001NI EXE version works without the Winsock support The NI in the utilities command line name stands for No 11 Internet by the way It must be noted here that you MUST be connected to the Internet and properly configured for the Winsock capabilities to function Obviously to use these Internet connectivity options your copy of SkyWarn 2001 must be running on a machine that is connected to the web and must support these protocols The software is designed to work on systems that become disconnected from the web while the program is running In the future it is planned that the software will integrate its own dial up capability HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS The software should run on any Intel 80386 compatible system with enough resources that will support running the MS Windows 3 1 or better operating system NOTE Many MS Windows v3 x environments require using the versions of the software that do not have the floating button bar This is shipped with all orders at present on the supplemental disk The application requirements for a Windows v3 1 installation includes you manually installing SHARE EXE as specified from your AUTOEXEC BAT file as SHARE EXE L 500 F 5100 for
20. the OK button or presses the Enter key or waits 30 seconds The 30 second timer is provided to allow the software to be installed for automatic startup should the computer reboot By Waral20BT vll Dg 1996 1798 Stephen Fizzarend Poxi Bere Monger Mew Jerry 07751 ea reet Wubsite hip OTH n ng t ia oc Tho computer peger c aciei gd mo c ovari hen dikiro or th arc any poson ol mas proli n recen Cid cina pri and sel ae wr After the software is started for the first time when prompted select the serial port Com ports 1 8 are currently supported including Digicom compatible multiport boards from the list box this list box only appears the first time the software is run or after the COM port is Saved as None for which your Ultimeter is attached by double clicking on the COM port number Next you will be presented with the message Please wait establishing serial link and analyzing data stream Within a minute or two if all hardware is properly configured the main SkyWarn 2001 GUI screen shall appear and data will begin to display or else an error message will appear After a minute or two if no data is read on the serial port the message Check all cables and power connections then continue will appear if this occurs please refer to
21. the following commands ULTIMII Start in support mode for an Ultimeter Il LOGMODE Start in support mode for an Ultimeter 500 or 2000 in Log Mode ULTIMBOOL Start in support mode for an Ultimeter 500 in particular in Log Mode ULTIM500C Start in support mode for an Ultimeter amp 500 in particular in Complete Record Mode An example of supplying command line arguments within MS Windows 95 is shown below in selecting the operating characteristics for an Ultimeter Il which for a U Il is recommended Sk lcut Skys AHAM F oyunbe r Bird Shortcut Bleoricut io Taga tpe Appkeaten Ts gest Te CASE TA ASK ae UL TIHI leget m ABE Sn FIN Stow benc dorus Hur verso For normal operation except with a 11 with a U 2000 or for any model allowing the software to attempt to determine the model and mode in use this is true for any new models such as when I first tested the new U 800 simply select the main SkyWarn 2001 icon for the type of operation desired However for the Ultimeter 500 which does not support Barometer or Humidity sensors use the 23 ULTIM500L command for Logging mode or the UTIM500C command for Complete Record mode Selecting the ULTIM500L will disable all displays of data involving the barometer or humidity data Warning this would effect the display of data for normal operation of the Ultime
22. the next section in this manual entitled STARTUP PROBLEMS In most all cases if you have properly configured the instrument in accordance with the instruments documentation and your serial port is working properly the data will be received by the software Then the software begins to analyze the data flow to determine the model type applicable and display the mode as Data Logging or Complete Record on the caption bar and then begin displaying data from the instrument 18 Plo ahi v 4 af ej ida id After the instruments mode has been determined the main GUI screen appears without any data displayed until a sufficient amount of data has been read for about a minute or so During this time the data panels shall display Analyzing data and the Wind direction shall be indicated as North with no speed indication and both the Temperature and Wind Chill shall be mid scale Also the Outdoor Temperature Graph shall be displayed by default and all but the System and Help menu selections shall be disabled Note that the Outdoor Temperature graph is displayed by default whenever the software is started and that even after data begins to display on the data panels and virtual instrumentation that it will take exactly five 5 minutes of data monitoring before graphing of data will begin Furthermore all graphs are also u
23. the preferred mode is achieved by pressing and holding the CLEAR and RAIN icons for three seconds If you are also running a Weather Picture this is the required mode of operation You can test your connection between the Ultimeter amp and the PC by using an dumb terminal program such as the one supplied with Windows and setting the serial port to 2400 baud No Parity 8 data bits and one stop bit If the data is not continuously flowing and being displayed on screen as series of data consisting mostly of the characters 0 9 and A F with the possibility of some dashes thrown in then you have a problem with data flow from the instrument to the PC FEATURES This list except for a few features we have probably overlooked represents most of the softwares features Supports Ultimeter amp models II 500 800 and 2000 and any compatible instruments automatically or by direct selection also supports real time on the fly change from Logging mode to Complete Record mode for the 500 800 and 2000 models Supports all sensors currently available for all Ultimeter amp models Supports the full range of all parameters and modes supported by Ultimeter amp Supports all units of measure and ranges supported by Ultimeter Provides derived parameters from algorithmic calculations based on data provided by the Ultimeter amp depending on the model and mode and sensors in use for Dew Point Wind Chill Heat Index Cloud Height Possibility of
24. the suite with the exception of one or two major features At no time should you attempt to use more than one instance of any monitoring program on your computer The main suite of software disks 1 through 5 consists of three executable programs the GUI Monitoring Program SKYW2001 EXE the Background Monitoring Program SWLOGGR EXE and the stand alone Setup Program SWCONFIG EXE Both of these monitoring programs have internal setup capabilities that can be used as the programs execute The various other monitoring programs in the suite are stripped down versions of both without internal setup save graphing internet support toolbar and other capabilities to allow their use on a wider spectrum of PC configurations Provided for optional installation is the stand alone Analysis Graphing and Reporting program SWREPORT EXE found on the REPORT disk This program is intended for those that do not 10 make use of Spread Sheet Excel Lotus etc or Data Base MS Access Visual dBase etc applications to import and analyze their data but yet may want to look at more than just the last 72 hours of data This tool has not yet developed into what we decided to provide however in future updates we plan to further develop it into a more useful application It does however provide display of one months worth of data at a time and the types of graphs found in the monitoring software including time series along with formatted printed reports an
25. the winter you may want to turn the display of the wind speed or wind direction or both off Well you can but what we also wanted to do was allow the user to rearrange the screen location of these components as well That code is not in place and may not make until the 32 bit versions We recommend as an absolute minimum configuration dedicated only to running SkyWarn 2001 while it is running and without Internet support for running MS Windows v3 11 and one of the background SkyWarn 2001 logging programs an Intel 80386 DX25 with 8 MB RAM and one RS 232C serial port For the full screen GUI programs an Intel 80386 DX25 you will need 16 RAM Obviously the faster the PC and the more memory currently memory is cheap your System has the better the performance will be For MS Windows 95 Microsoft has release three updates to the operating system calling them OSR1 OSR2 and OSR 2 5 best results we be had using the latest version we recommend as an absolute minimum configuration an Intel amp 80486 compatible system at 33 MHz with 24 MB RAM and one RS 232C serial port The preferred system would be any Pentium class computer with at least 32MB RAM a 8MB video board and lots of free hard disk space if you are planning on saving and analyzing data over long periods of time For storage requirements the applications files alone require 10MB of available harddisk space 12 The storage of data is a variable The software can be operated w
26. world style wind vane graphics Note that the entire wind vane rotates not just the arrow GUI Screen Parameters Setup THERMOMETERS Wind Speed Heter Barpaph Peak Reading f Emih f Enobs C MPS mm hPa kPa v T MPS You will notice that any change you make on this page is immediately affected on the main GUI screen this can be seen as this menu screen is modal over the GUI screen but can be moved about This screen does not have its own SAVE button as the data is common with the main setup database so after clicking on the RETURN button you must click on SAVE from the ENVIRONMENT setup screen to affect a save of your selections 42 The E mail Data Readings Panel supports the sending of e mail weather broadcasts via an Internet connection You must enter your provider information and user name and password just as you do for your normal e mail program and be connected to your Internet provider for this capability to work Begin by selecting Enter Provider Information at the bottom of the panel its down out of the way since it is the least used selection The screen will look similar to the one pictured below I You must also enter your station information which is used identify your location for the wx broadcast receivers in case the person s at a large entity will know the physical location your observations pertain too Note The Elevation field is currently activated for use
27. 2 702 300 1 324 035 1 514 279 592 650 1 235 532 726 882 1 458 704 675 372 1 547 041 01 31 98 01 31 98 05 19 97 01 31 98 04 01 98 01 31 98 02 28 98 02 28 98 03 31 98 03 31 98 04 29 98 04 29 98 12 11 11 11 11 58p 58p 33p 43p 00a 43p 59p 59p 57p 57p 29p 29p SKYWARN DBF JAN98LOG DBF YEAR98 ZIP JAN98ULT FEB98LOG FEB98ULT MAR98LOG MAR98ULT APR98LOG APR98ULT DAT DBF DAT DBF DAT DBF DAT 25 Structure for table Number of data records O0 Date of last update Code Page 437 Field Field Name 1 READ_DATE 2 READ_TIME 3 ULTIM MODE 4 ULTIM SIZE 5 OUT TEMP 6 WIND CHILL 7 DEW POINT 8 WIND LOW 9 WIND HIGH 0 WIND AVER 1 WIND PEA 2 WIND_DIR 3 PREVAILING 4 BAROMETER 5 HUMIDITY 6 RAIN_FALL E SNOW FALL 8 IN TEMP 9 IN HUMID rotat 05 19 97 Type Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character Character C SKYWARN SKYWARN DBF Width 8 Note 8 Note 6 Note 3 Note 6 Note 6 Note 6 Note 5 Note 5 Note 5 Note 5 Note 5 Note 3 Note 6 Note 3 Note 6 Note 6 Note 6 Note 3 Note 102 YYYY MM DD The time host PC is set to Field 3 is for inter
28. 6 12 07 97 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 04 09 98 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 02 14 95 12 26 96 12 26 96 12 26 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 07 97 01 20 97 12 28 96 12 26 96 12 26 96 02 14 95 04 09 98 01 20 97 12 26 96 02 13 95 12 26 96 9 56p 0 4 12 2 12 12 12 11 11 12 12 12 12 15p 37p 14p 52p 16p 16p 33p 48a 28p 46a 23p 32p 47p 00a 34p 47p 15p 46p 49p 17p 15p 18p 32p 41 59 54 19 40 54 21 ALARM WAV BARO WAV BITTER WAV CALM WAV CELCIUS WAV CELSIUS WAV CHILL WAV CHILLY WAV CLOUDHIT WAV COLD WAV DEGREES WAV DEWPOINT WAV E WAV EIGHT WAV EIGHTTEN WAV EIGHTY WAV ELEVEN WAV ENE WAV ESE WAV EXTREME WAV FALLING WAV FARENHGT WAV FIFTEEN WAV FIFTY WAV FIVE WAV flood wav FOG WAV FORTY WAV FOUR WAV FOURTEEN WAV 67 FREEZING WAV FRESH WAV GAIL WAV GENTLE WAV HECTO WAV HOT WAV HUMIDITY WAV HUNDRED WAV HURICANE WAV IN WAV INHUMID WAV INTEMP WAV KELVIN WAV KILO WAV KNOTS WAV KPH WAV LIGHTAIR WAV LTBREEZE WAV MBAR WAV MILD WAV MINUS WAV MM WAV MODERATE WAV MPH WAV MPS WAV N WAV NE WAV NEARGAIL WAV NEARGALE WAV NINE WAV NINETEEN WAV NINETY WAV NNE WAV NNW WAV 68 7 624 8 846 10 202 11 726 13 648 6 358
29. 7720 A less than 100 from most sources it comes complete with all required components and installation is simple have used this pairing for coding and testing the Snow accumulation algorithm over the winters of 96 and 97 The Davies hardware fits perfectly see the picture below the most effort involved is the cutting into pieces and fitting of the insulating material into the rain gauge cover The Davis unit provides a heavy gauge cable with fused control box that provides an ON OFF switch and power on LED indicator Weather Buffer Like other Weather Station manufacturers that provide memory buffer devices to allow the user to 15 log data but have their computer turned off Peet Bros has announced the soon to be released Weather Buffer They claim It will provide completely seamless operation just plug it in and enough storage capacity for the most demanding applications Peet Bros advertising on their website states that the data buffer will store more than two months of weather data at 5 minute intervals Every 5 minutes the buffer stores the highest wind gust over the last 5 minutes together with the associated wind direction and the instant value of all other variables Stored data can be downloaded to a computer at your convenience in an entirely seamless operation However as of the release of this software we have no information or experience with this device and can not state how it will work in conjunction with o
30. ALM WINDS TUS Orrin W Hs 35 LONG TERM DATA DISPLAY For the Ultimeter models that provide Long Term Data Mode currently that is the U 500 U 800 and U 2000 the SkyWarn 2001 software provides a Long Term Data display mode The display is broken down into five major groupings consisting of Outside Temperature Wind Speed Direction Outside Barometer Outside Humidity Rain Snow Fall Indoor Temperature and Indoor Humidity With the common characteristics of providing current data display parameters updated as often as data is returned from the instrument Many Long Term data readings can be clicked on to display the Date and Time the parameters last change Furthermore all parameters units of measure with the exception of Humidity can be clicked on to change the unit of measure being displayed min Jemm SEE mien TD HI Der WD Hi Dir TO Hi LT Hl Dir F ET 4 YI HE Terep LT Hi Temg TD LO Chill YD LO Chil LILO Chill TE LO Tampi VTE LO Tampe LT LO Targ LT L O Tijara HL 36 SWITCHING ULTIMETER MODELS You do not have to upgrade the software to another version to switch between any of the currently available Peet Bros Ultimeters If you have started using the software with say an Ultimeter amp Il or 500 and later upgrade to an 800 or 2000 the data saved from the units will interlace without any prob
31. Currently supported are Ultimeter amp models II 500 800 and 2000 as well as any other private label instruments i e West Marine Weather Base V 10 or 20 or new Ultimeter amp models made by Peet Bros that have serial data output or upgrade such as Ultimeter amp models 100 and 700 which meets the same specifications as the above listed models Also supported are all currently available sensors However only the U 2000 configured with all sensors attached will fully exploit all the features of the software The SkyWarn 2001 software provides full support for Data Logging Mode and Complete Record Mode using the proper Ultimeter amp The software provides user configured Graphical or Tabular data display screens for near real time display logging analysis and graphing of current and long term data The SkyWarn 2001 software is the only software known to the author that provides this level of support and flexibility for all modes of the Ultimeter amp weather stations We display long term data and the date and time of the last specific long term parameters update We are very confident that our software is the best you will find for use with the Ultimeter amp family of home weather stations now and certainly in the future The overall Skywarn 2001 software is made up of a number of individual programs some of which are designed to execute simultaneously In certain cases some of these programs are almost identical to other programs in
32. E E TT AT 55 E a E O T T E E TT 55 E a a T E 56 E A on EE cH 56 1 Fe E A E O E TAT TA E T OTE 56 METER A E ET EE A T ETP ETET 57 l L e UM AEE S E A ETO A AT 57 AEE a E D a E ET T E AE O TAT 58 EE ESLAR a EE d b E E a N E 59 I eR CUM 60 a Dr Me A SE HR 60 HEIP er Tee 60 TRADEMARK AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE The name SkyWarn 2001 is the trademark of Stephen B Hajducek N2CKH The Skywarn 2001 program s all materials associated with software product any data conversion utility tools help files printed or on line documentation without limitation which make up the enclosed software product are copyrighted 1996 1997 and 1998 as an unpublished proprietary work by Stephen B Hajducek N2CKH Ultimeter is the registered trademark of Peet Bros Co LICENSE AGREEMENT User License PRINTED BELOW IN ITS ENTIRETY IS THE LICENSE AGREEMENT GOVERNING YOUR USE OF THE SOFTWARE PLEASE READ THE LICENSE AGREEMENT IMPORTANT STEPHEN B HAJDUCEK IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE ENCLOSED SOFTWARE TO YOU ONLY UPON THE CONDITION THAT YOU ACCEPT ALL OF THE TERMS CONTAINED IN THE LICENSE AGREEMENT PRINTED BELOW PLEASE READ THE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE MAKING CONTINUED USE OF THE SOFTWARE THE INSTALL AND CONTINUED USE OF THE SOFTWARE SHALL INDICATE YOUR ACCEPTANCE TO ALL OF THE TERMS OF THIS LICE
33. Error 61 Disk is full There isn t enough room on the disk for the completion of a data write from saving data or updating the data archives Move some files to another disk or delete some files Error 91 This error results from heavy use of an Internet browser program use or other operations that puts a strain on the computers resources It tends to occur most often during voice spots It is trapped but since data displayed and announced can become erroneous the program will be halted Error 1070 The file XBS110 DLL found in the CASKYWARN subdirectory or where ever you installed the software to is specified in the SKYW2001 INI file as well as some of the other Sxxxxxx INI files depending on the EXE in question The XBS110 DLL may be found on your system in other locations depending on what software you have installed You may also find an XBS200 DLL as well If one of these is in your path one or more other programs depend on them being there so you can edit the SKYW2001 INI file to point to these others file this way what ever other software you have installed will still be happy Another problem that can cause this error code is the existence of multiple versions of the VBRUNS30O DLL in the path on the system Make sure that the latest version you have is in the path and delete the older versions Error 3163 This error results from heavy CPU use like that of an Internet browser program use or other operation
34. Fog Rain Fall Rate Snow Fall Rate Snow Fall Accumulation Comfort Index Barometer Rate of Change Barometer Direction of Change Provides real time on the fly selection of a selected parameters unit of measure by clicking on the unit of measure or graph displayed Provides graphical virtual instrumentation for the display of data on moving panel meters for Wind Speed Wind Direction Temperature and Wind Chill 20 Provides real time update of Current Today s Highs and Lows for all key parameters with the date and time of each provided by clicking on the data Provides over 30 types of graphs for both display 1 3 screen to full screen and printing of data from 5 minutes to 3 hours back in 5 minute increments The graphs available provide for graphing from one to four parameters Regular graphs can be displayed within Time Span Windows of 30 60 90 120 150 and 180 minutes and are updated every five 5 minutes and provide viewing up to the last 3 hours of data Provides Time Series graphs which plot a stream of data scrollable for reviewing up to the last 72 hours of collected data within a time span window Provides standard Wind Rose Time Series also type graph which is a flower like diagram indicating the relative frequencies of different wind directions and forces for a given location and period of time The wind rose depicts the frequency of occurrence of winds and their force in each of the 16 direction wind sectors north
35. NSE AGREEMENT IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS STEPHEN B HAJDUCEK IS UNWILLING TO LICENSE THE SOFTWARE TO YOU IN WHICH CASE YOU MUST IMMEDIATELY RETURN THE PACKAGE AND ALL ACCOMPANYING MATERIAL TO STEPHEN B HAJDUCEK OR YOUR AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR A FULL REFUND OF THE PURCHASE PRICE ONLY MINUS SHIPPING COSTS AND 40 RESTOCKING FEE This License Agreement Agreement is a legal agreement between Stephen B Hajducek Publisher s principally located at U S Post Office Box 8 Morganville New Jersey 07751 0008 and you the user Licensee and is effective the date Licensee opens the package containing the diskette s or CD ROM s or other media or installs the software or otherwise uses the enclosed software product This Agreement covers all materials associated with software product any data conversion utility tools help files printed or on line documentation without limitation which make up the enclosed software product herein the Software 1 GRANT OF LICENSE The Publisher grants the Licensee a non exclusive non transferable personal and worldwide license to use one copy of the Software in object code form and one copy of the associated user documentation contained in the accompanying user manual on line help and Documentation for non commercial use This license grant is expressly conditioned upon Licensee s compliance with all of the terms of this Agreement The license granted thereunder applies only to the designated ver
36. PC connected to the Internet this panel also provides configuring the software to make use of an Internet Time Server of the users selection to keep the PC set to the proper date and time This is a good idea considering the continuous flow of data on the serial port can cause some computers to clocks to loose time due to stolen clock states The Error Messages panels controls the display of a pull down display of error and warning messages on the GUI screen When graphs are supported the pull down is over the graph otherwise it is over the data panels All messages displayed in this window are not system critical you will see messages that address Internet services when your connection to your provided has terminated and Automated e mail or Time Server resources are active all of your Alarm warning messages as displayed here as well NI UUI SETUP Ember Tara Serer URL Adhara nee Ul Erat On A dinar To 41 The Select Units of Measure panel provides selection of the GUI Screen Parameters Setup page as seen below Here all data panels and thermometers default units of measure may be set and saved Always remember that changing any units of measure or other setting is only temporary no matter where you are when you change it unless you click on SAVE from Setup when you are running any of the monitoring programs Double clicking on the Wind Direction meter even selects between the modern and old
37. S Windows v3 x installations the button bar code was in conflict with undetermined resources so we are providing versions without the button bar The main full featured SkyWarn 2001 monitoring programs SKYW2001 EXE and SW2001NI EXE provide for the monitoring of the continuous flow of serial data at 2400 baud from the Peet Bros Company family of Ultimeter Home Weather stations attached to one of the users RS 232C serial ports This fully interactive data rich environment provides the user with near real time display and analysis support for all data received Depending on user configuration the data flow from the Ultimeter amp can be decoded displayed and graphed on screen in near real time for review and analysis and optionally saved to disk for later review and analysis The SkyWarn 2001 Background Logging program has NO graphing but otherwise provides graphical on screen data and Long Term data display screens There are two additional executables SW2KTINY EXE and LOGRTINY EXE which are stripped down to also remove Internet support Long Term data display and internal Setup Save to run on a minimally configured system All programs provide automatic detection of the currently known mode model is also known in some cases in use For instance the user of an U 2000 can change between Data Logging and Complete Record modes on the fly and the software will auto detect and follow the change for proper data decoding and storage Also a user
38. TIC Wx REPORTS NOTE As with any Internet capability a Winsocket must be loaded for versions of windows prior to Windows 95 Unattended Automatic Wx Reports are sent to all parties on your addressee list at the interval selected from every 5 minutes to once an hour when Enable e mail Data Broadcasts on the Setup Environment screen is checked as long as your computer remains connected to your Internet provider If you have a T 1 line Cable TV Modem 2 Way Satellite or Microwave Radio link for Internet access then you have it made however you probably have ISDN at best or standard phone line dial up access as most people do Thus your provider or phone bill will prohibit being connected twenty four 24 hours a day If you want to call your host log you in and start your TCP IP package for you automatically while your PC is unattended on some period that you select to allow for Automated Wx Reports We suggest a shareware program called NetDial as an Internet dialer for Microsoft Windows v3 x NetDial was made to replace packaged TCP IP dial up programs it will also work with Windows 95 for more information visit their website at http www sanderssw com However we suggest the shareware program called DUNCE for Windows 95 There are two versions once entry level shareware and the other Dunce Gold For more information visit there website at http www vecdec com or call 1 913 271 2175 for more information When connected and properly
39. The goal of this manual is to provide the user of the SkyWarn 2001 software with the required instructions for the installation and the proper use of the software We have provided within this manual most of the information that is provided within the on line help files however there is additional information contained herein that is not in the on line help files We have kept the size of this manual as small as possible please make an attempt to read the entire manual as only then will you get the most from your use of the software The SkyWarn 2001 utilities were design and developed to provide support of the Peet Bros Company family of Ultimeter Weather stations for the best possible near real time data display and analysis of current and saved data for educational and hobby use only One instrument using one serial port on one PC is supported by this software NOTE You can NOT run two or more copies on a PC using multiple serial ports to monitor multiple instruments Should you have this or other special needs please contact us with your requirements for our consideration The SkyWarn 2001 software is a comprehensive set of MS Windows applications that provide support for the near real time and optionally saving data to disk for later data display and analysis graphing and reporting of the data collected as output and data derived via an RS 232C serial link from the Peet Bros Ultimeter amp family of home weather stations
40. These two parameters are handled by large high contrast fast acting eye catching graphical panel virtual instruments From the left side of the screen top to bottom are the large autoranging Wind Speed meter and the large calibrated 0 360 degree compass points Wind Direction meter By double clicking on this meter an old world style Wind Vane is substituted which rotates about center indicating direction This virtual Wind Speed indicator provides the user a selection of Wind Speed units of measure on the fly by clicking on the units of measure being indicated currently in the above example that would be MPH This modern instrumentation panel type wind direction meter can be substituted for by and old world style type by double clicking with the left mouse button as seen below When the old world style is used the direction needle remains in the 12 o clock position while the compass points rotate about it to indicate the current direction that the wind is blowing from 28 As an additional eye catching instrument for Wind Speed we have nestled just under the Wind Speed meter a moving bar graph which is also autoranging We found that this aids in the user when only a quick glimpse of the screen can be made and is also handy when using the meter in locked ranges and monitoring wind peak alarm conditions N Current Wind Speed 6 2 MPH Peak Wind Speed 0 0 Winds are 21 SW FO GENTLE BREEZE Also provid
41. Users Manual SkyWarn 2001 v1 0 0 for the Ultimeter amp Copr O 1996 1999 Stephen B Hajducek U S Post Office Box 8 Morganville New Jersey 07751 0008 All Rights Rerserved Worldwide Revision 1 0 March 11 1999 Ultimeter is the registered trademark of Peet Bros Co TABLE OF CONTENTS LICENSE AGREEMENT sse 4 puc P3 E l OEE ANT 8 IR Qr Mee 9 epe 10 INTERNET CONNEC itt S 11 HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE 8 2 sivos 12 C I eec 14 14 522 M 15 WIL 00 insana RRR R 15 wid pen e POA 15 HEATED E2700 15 VOICE SPOTS AND OTHER 5 5 seen seen seen Sesa toss R kr 16 SOPT WARE INSTALLATION T 16 DATA LOGGING MODE sirri 17 COMPLETE RECORD S LR e 17 555285505 19 PE WD t
42. XTY SNOW SSE SSW STEADY STORM STORMY STRONG SW TEN THIRTEEN THIRTY THOUSAND THREE TIMEIS WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV 11 752 4 464 13 816 11 420 6 500 2 710 17 002 6 902 52 270 7 190 6 484 7 106 8 314 6 698 6 938 79 918 143 356 7 626 8 368 6 206 15 690 13 128 11 458 6 690 11 912 11 690 11 434 8 568 2 940 5 060 5 300 4 562 4 726 61 924 12 28 96 02 13 95 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 10 16 95 12 28 96 12 28 96 04 09 98 01 20 97 12 28 96 12 28 96 02 13 95 12 26 96 12 26 96 04 09 98 04 09 98 02 13 95 12 26 96 12 26 96 01 20 97 12 28 96 12 28 96 01 20 97 12 28 96 12 29 97 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 26 96 12 26 96 12 26 96 12 26 96 02 13 95 04 09 98 08p 51p 11p 23p 25p 08p 23p 28p 52p 15p 03p 58p 55p 31p 46p 56p 31p 07p 29p 45p 18p 01p 05p 14p 57p 58p 01p 05p 14p 19p 38p 08p 53p 55p NW WAV ONE WAV OUTHUMID WAV OUTTEMP WAV PERCENT WAV POINT WAV PREVAIL WAV RAINFALL WAV rainrate wav rising wav S WAV SE WAV SEVEN WAV SEVENTEN WAV SEVENTY WAV severe wav sever
43. a time span of 19 hours Also notice that the Data Points box list 6903 this means that 6 903 entries are in the April 1998 database file or 24 days of data saved every five minutes This data may or may not have been saved continuously for 24 days from the 1 of the month to the 24 of the month but it does total up to 24 days worth of data Looking at the bottom of the selected Outdoor Temperature graph it can be seen that the data displayed is from 98 04 01at 00 01 59 to 98 04 01 at 11 50 32 although this is not 10 hours as one may expect it to read 10 01 59 or there about the software was not running for a portion of that time span thus no data was collected one can extrapulate that there was a down time of about an 1 hour and 49 minutes All graphs in the Report program are Time Series graphs in that you can scroll each graph displayed should there be enough data in the database and the time span selected does not exceed the amount of data stored to date A time span up to 240 hours 10 days can be selected at one time limitation of 16 bit tools however you should be aware that selecting time spans greater than the amount of data available is hazardous in this version of the program The Spread Sheet works just like it does in the monitoring program with the exception that it will display an entire months worth of data at one time The currently provided reports are meager compared to what is planned there are selected from a m
44. aph Type True 3D OFF Thick Lines OFF Hide Graph Graph Print Mode Graph Print Graph Clear Graph Menu ON This selection turns on the pop up graph menu of the 18 most commonly used graphs This pop up menu occupies the same area as the Todays Highs while active 50 Graph Time Span This selection allows for setting the time span window of most graph types Choices are provided from 30 minutes to 180 minutes in 30 minute steps Metering E mail Help Graph Menu ON Graph Time Span gt 30 Minutes Time Labeling gt 60 Minutes Graph Select gt 90 Minutes Tool Bar 120 Minutes Legends OFF 150 Minutes Graph Resize 180 Minutes Graph Type gt True 3D Off Thick Lines OFF Hide Graph Graph Print Mode gt Graph Print Graph Clear Time Labeling This selection provides for the choice of labeling the bottom horizontal axis of most graphs with either the real tine or in 5 minute elapsed time markers Metering E mail Help Graph Time Span gt Time Labeling 5 Minute Increments Graph Select Actual Time Tool Bar Legends OFF Graph Resize Graph Type gt True 3D Off Thick Lines OFF Hide Graph Graph Print Mode gt Graph Print Graph Clear 51 Graph Select This selection provides a sub menu with over 30 graph selections to choose from Grouped from top to bottom into six groups as Temperature Wind Barometer Precipitation Long term surface and Indoor 52 Tool Bar This se
45. be sharing the same IRQ I wanted to choose a menu item but it was grayed or not present know the menu item exists what s wrong Some menu and toolbar buttons are only active for a particular view or window The view that has the focus as evidenced by the title bar of that window being highlighted will control what menu items are available to you To give a window focus simply click in that window What is the upgrade policy anyway As a registered user of the product your upgrade cost will always be 5096 of the then current list prices irregardless of how many versions old you purchase was This also applies to the 16 bit to 32 bit or 64 bit update scenario as well or whatever the world may hold Should we offer a version for Unix or whatever in the future it will be 5096 of the list price of the version for that OS Even if you own a 16 bit v1 0 0 for MS Windows version and want the new v1 0 0 for Linux if will be 5096 of that versions list price Can I create my own WAV files Yes We look forward to a library of different language male female WAV files to be created They should say what the current ones say and for the best results they must be created as PCM 11 025 Hz 8 bit mono WAV files 72 APPENDIX G The REPORT program SWREPORT EXE that is being included with this release is an installation option as it is not yet a completed product it has been provided as a first look as what is to come We understand
46. ck up hang This problem is completely unrelated to the comm drv issues discussed above although they are 61 frequently confused To establish whether your computer has the SMC 665 controller you will need to inspect the motherboard Look for a chip with SMC in large lettering and FDC37C665GT just below it If you are unable or unwilling to inspect the motherboard you should check the system documentation of contact the manufacturer Solutions to this problem are available but depend on the version of Windows and the comm drv you are using Users of Windows 3 1 or 3 11 should replace the comm drv file in the Windows System directory with an updated version see below Users of Windows for Workgroups 3 11 should replace the serial 386 file in the Windows System directory with an updated version see below In fact all Windows for Workgroups 3 11 users with or without the SMC 665 controller should install the updated version of serial 386 since it also corrects another communications problem Both of these files together with a DOS utility and readme s are included in the file serial zip available from ftp ftp smc com pub chips superio serial zip All users should consider upgrading to Windows 95 or Windows 98 which have much better RS 232 serial I O support If using or upgrading to Windows NT 4 0or later be sure to install all the service packs to date The best way to see if your system will support proper ser
47. d Chill are provided above we have them displayed side by side User configurable for the display of temperature and wind chill in either degrees Celsius Centigrade or Farenheight and both feature Minimum and Maximum readings displayed since midnight textually at the top and bottom of the instrument display and via vertical sliding pointers with the high temperature point yellow and the low temperature pointer in light blue The current temperature is indicated by the current Red level on the calibrated scale The units of measure in addition to being selected from a setup screen can also be changed on the fly by clicking on the currently displayed unit of measure Thus in the example above clicking on the F at the bottom of the thermometers would change the unit of measure to This can be done independently of each virtual instrument The full range of the thermometers for this release is 32 to 160 F calibrated for display from 0 to 150 F auto ranging in 20 degree bins above the current temperature about 50 F and 32 to 70 calibrated for display from 0 to 60 Between the thermometers is a textual message regarding the feel of the outside temperate to the human skin taking into account air moving greater than 4 MPH The messages read from VERY HOT down to BITTER COLD with FREEZING in between These terms correspond to the ranges in the default NWS or or User Provided temperature bins whichever is in use These
48. d F for Falling with the F changing to the color Red when the Barometers falls greater than 18 inches of mercury within a 3 hour period indicating stormy weather Furthermore for the Days Highs or Lows by clicking on the reading of interest the time of the reading is displayed These readings are cleared at midnight daily when all instruments are reset as is the Ultimeter amp 2000 daily total register for rain The Heat Index is always derived from Temperature and Humidity data returned by the instruments the Wind Chill is derived from Temperature and Wind Speed data returned by the instruments unless the model of Ultimeter and mode provides Wind Chill The Heat Index or Apparent Temperature is calculated and displayed when the outside air temperature is at least 70 degrees farenheight Below this LOW is displayed in addition when the Heat Index apparent temperature reaches the dangerous level starting at 90 degrees farenheight the reading is displayed in the color RED and stays so until LOW or midnight comes 31 HEAT INDEX 0 2 Relative Humidity 40 90 0 70 Apparent Temperature Air Temperature The apparent temperature is a measure of relative discomfort due to combined heat and high humidity It was developed by R G Steadman 1979 and is based on physiological studies of evaporative skin cooling for various combinations of ambient temperature and humidity The apparent temperature equals the actual air tempera
49. d data exported to various standard data file formats see Appendix G for more details The other monitoring programs are provided for optional use and are supplied on the SUPPLEMENTAL diskette The current release of the SkyWarn 2001 software will work under MS Windows 3 x and higher with certain restrictions when using the proper version of the program from the suite as detailed in the appendices Under MS Windows v3 1 the SHARE EXE utility supplied with MS DOS must be installed in memory by adding to the AUTOEXEC BAT file the line SHARE L 500 F 5100 for proper operation The software requires no special configuration for MS Windows v3 11 For Workgroups MS Windows 95 Windows 98 or MS Windows NT however for Windows NT Service Pack 3 must be installed for the Intel amp processor However not all utilities will function under the MS Windows v3 x and some utilities require a Windsock driver installed to run and an active Internet connection to utilize all the utilities features The current 16 bit version of the SkyWarn 2001 software should function on future versions of MS Windows beyond Windows 95 as long as Microsoft continues to support 16 bit applications The SkyWarn 2001 software may also work under Windows emulation s for Apple Computer and Unix systems as well as others and operating systems on other other than Intel processor based systems however we have NOT tested this In all cases the best results will always
50. data will save all changes from a top level tab screen 48 Long Term Data The Long Term Data selection only appears on the System menu panel when an attached Ultimeter is in Complete Record mode thus the Ultimteter 100 500 800 and 2000 or compatible units can be in use When chosen it brings up the textual Long Term data screen The Long Term Data Screen is broken down into five 5 major panels Outside Temperature Wind Speed Direction Indoor Temperature Barometric Pressure and Indoor Humidity The current and derived readings are updated constantly as data is processed from the instrument For instance below is the Long Term Wind Speed Direction panel Grouped together in this one panel is all Wind Speed and Wind Direction information provided by the instrument and derived from the data provided by the instrument The Average Wind Speed for the day is derived by averaging all the Wind Speed readings for the day since midnight Wind Speed Direction Data 1 min vg YD HI Dir LT HI Dir Note although you can select units of measure different than the default the selections that you make even if you access Setup and Save settings under the current release of the software are not saved for the Long Term Data screen Quit This selection is the only proper way to terminate the program 49 Graph Graph Menu ON Graph Time Span Time Labeling Graph Select Tool Bar Legends OFF Graph Resize Gr
51. e Prevailing Wind Direction normal graph you will often encounter the North bar being labeled CALM and the other bars being labeled in 5 minute time increments with the horizon scale labeled 10 through 100 Response Just reselect the graph a second time for normal display Thermometer Outside Temperature Description At midnight the thermometers are suppose to reset to day s high and low readings and pointer indicators The day s high reading MAX and pointer Yellow are not resetting However the Wind Chill thermometer is properly resetting Response No work around Will fix in future update 66 Appendix D The following are the WAV files current at the time of release of version 1 0 0 of the software The voice is male and the language is English 0 WAV ALARM WAV BARO WAV BITTER WAV CALM WAV CELCIUS WAV CELSIUS WAV CHILL WAV CHILLY WAV CLOUDHIT WAV COLD WAV DEGREES WAV DEWPOINT WAV E WAV EIGHT WAV EIGHTTEN WAV EIGHTY WAV ELEVEN WAV ENE WAV ESE WAV EXTREME WAV FALLING WAV FARENHGT WAV FIFTEEN WAV FIFTY WAV FIVE WAV FLOOD WAV FOG WAV FORTY WAV FOUR WAV FOURTEEN WAV 6 938 8 550 9 416 12 628 5 880 15 270 15 270 8 312 4 846 126 820 9 000 7 882 9 720 6 834 5 602 8 022 6 798 6 004 16 248 14 458 12 786 4 674 14 824 5 144 4 068 8 314 40 082 16 190 6 102 9 002 4 336 02 13 95 06 12 92 12 28 9
52. ed are textual displays between the Wind Speed and Wind Direction instruments for Current and Peak Wind Speed Prevailing Wind Direction and Wind Force in both Beaufort and Fujita Wind Force Scales Depicted above the Fujita reading is FO and the Beaufort reading is Gentle Breeze The Beaufort Scale was originally devised in 1806 by Admiral Sir F Beaufort British Navy the scale has twelve 12 force bins ranging from a Force of 0 at less than 1 MPH Knots winds described as Calm to a Force of 12 at greater than 73 MPH 64 Knots described as Hurricane The Fujita Scale was devised by Professor T Fujita of the University of Chicago The Fujita Tornado Scale is based upon damage caused by very high winds on land It classifies these twisters into six 6 categories as FO through F5 ranging from 40 MPH to 300 MPH winds The Peet Bros anemometer is rated well into F3 158 206 MPH and may be good beyond Another scale of interest that we may implement in the future is the Saffir Simpson Scale which was developed by two meteorologists to better rate hurricanes on a one through five scale Category Wind Speed Storm Surge 1 74 95mph 4 to 5 feet 2 96 110mph 6 to 8 feet 3 111 130mph 9 to 12 feet 4 131 155mph 13 t018 feet 5 156mph or greater than 18 feet 29 TEMPERATURE T Wind Chill Wind Temp Two Graphical Thermometers are displayed on the GUI screen one at bottom for outdoor Temperature and the other at top for outdoor Win
53. enu that lists them as report 1 through 6 as seen below These reports are created using Crystal Reports v4 5 thus should anyone have a copy of crystal reports 4 5 you too can create and add reports to the REPORT directory At this time we plan to continue the use of Crystal Reports in the future however this may change We would like to be able to offer a custom report capability at some point that would mean a change from the current method File name Folders c skywarn reports Cancel 01 ec 2 E skywarn 03 Network report04_rpt lt reports report 5 rpt report06 rpt Read only List files of type Drives SKYWARN REPORTS c v 75 Below is a screen capture of REPORT01 RPT being selected and displayed When you use the reporting capability they are first displayed to screen then you have the option to export the report to a number of various file formats or to print the report As can be seen at the bottom of the Report display window this is page 1 of 692 landscape pages for the months worth of data A number of file formats are supported for the exporting of data However be aware that until some additional coding is done explicitly for the export of data the header for each report page is also exported no problem for say Word but not necessarily wanted for an Excel spread sheet where just the raw data is desired Printing just one
54. ety of graph types live data as it is being received is analyzed and optionally stored for later review A graph window that occupies about one third of the screen always displays at least one user selected parameter and may be enlarged for full screen viewing and printing on the fly We began development in October 1996 and started the baseline for the first Alpha release in April 1997 for third party testing we entered Beta testing in November 1997 The SkyWarn 2001 software has been under development and in conjunction with a loyal following of Alpha Beta testers throughout the United States and overseas which we are very grateful to have tested the software for over one year now It has been used in a variety of environments and under a variety of conditions and has stood up well working on systems with a multitude of other applications running As stated above the software is not yet perfect and may never be however we fully intend to continue refining the software and developing new versions until either perfection is achieved or we cease to sell this product As for this manual am sure that many users will think it is too big and requires to much reading while others will probably be of just the opposite opinion Probably everyone will think ran over or left out a particularly important facet of the software However just like the software itself the documentation will only get better with future revisions Please do not hesi
55. ewx wav SIX WAV SIXTEEN WAV SIXTY WAV SNOW WAV SSE WAV SSW WAV STEADY WAV STORM WAV STORMY WAV STRONG WAV SW WAV TEN WAV THIRTEEN WAV THIRTY WAV THOUSAND WAV THREE WAV timeis wav 69 TWELVE TWENTY TWO WAV WAV WAV VERYCOLD WAV VERYHOT VIOLENT W WARM WIND WSW ZERO WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV WAV 70 5 274 5 830 3 974 10 664 6 316 11 440 4 706 5 952 7 090 12 098 13 276 6 938 12 26 96 12 26 96 02 13 95 12 07 97 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 12 28 96 02 13 95 11 12 16p 37p 52p 21p 51a 55p 07p 49a 34p 08p 06p 56p TWELVE WAV TWENTY WAV TWO WAV VERYCOLD WAV VERYHOT WAV VIOLENT WAV W WAV WARM WAV WIND WAV WNW WAV WSW WAV ZERO WAV Appendix E Snow Fall The software provides both rate and accumulation information for snow fall just as it does for rain fall The snow fall information is provided by graphs spread sheet display voice spots and e mail Wx weather reports We have done a great deal of research over the past few years into Snowfall and Melt Water with respect to the electronic measurement or approximation of snowfall derived from melt water in a heated rain gauge In two years of testing we have to our satisfaction been able to provide the capability under specified conditions provide a relative indica
56. f the Publishers and or its suppliers and therefore Licensee agrees that it shall not modify decompile disassemble or reverse engineer the Software or attempt to do so except as permitted by applicable legislation Licensee may not use the Software as the basis to develop ideas for an application development effort that directly or indirectly competes with the Software in the market place If the Licensee needs an application developed with additional capabilities beyond the Software s current configuration the Licensee should contact the Publishers to determine whether a custom version of the Software with a special license may be obtained 5 PROPRIETARY RIGHTS NOTICES Except for the limited license granted herein the Publishers retain exclusive ownership of all proprietary rights including all ownership rights title and interest in and to the Software Licensee agrees NOT to represent that the Publishers is affiliated with or approves of Licensee s use of the Software in any way Except as required hereby Licensee shall not use the Publishers name trademarks or any of the Publishers designation in association with Licensee s use of the Software without specific case by case written permission The only exception is that of any printouts that the Software may create in that the Software places any identification as to the source of the printout the ultimate use of those printouts containing the name of the Software or whatever is embedded
57. h portion will be severed from this Agreement and the remainder of the Agreement will continue to be fully enforceable and valid This Agreement and the rights thereunder may not be assigned by Licensee whether by oral or written assignment sale of assets merger consolidation or otherwise without the express written consent of the Publishers Licensee agrees to be responsible for any and all losses or damages arising out of or incurred in connection with the Software Licensee agrees to defend indemnify and hold the Publishers harmless from any such loss or damage including attorney s fees arising from the use operation or performance of the Software or Licensee s breach of any terms of this Agreement Licensee shall be responsible for paying all state and federal use sales or value added taxes duties or governmental charges whether presently in force or come into force in the future related to the distribution and sale of the Software and will indemnify the PUBLISHERS against any claim made against the Publishers relating to any such taxes or assessments WELCOME The SkyWarn 2001 software began development to meet the authors need for MS Windows software to meet his demands for use with his then new Ultimeter amp 2000 After realizing the market need for good software for use with the entire Peet Bros family of Ultimeter amp weather stations the decision was rapidly made to produce a product that would support all models So
58. here is our first software product aimed at the home weather station user This first release will probably not be perfect but then what is however we will continue to improve and enhance the software and documentation over the course of time We are confident that the SkyWarn 2001 software is just what every Ultimeter owner that has had the desire to connect their Ultimeter amp to an MS Windows based computer system for near real time display and analysis have been waiting for to arrive We have designed an integrated application which makes the best use of the Windows Graphical User Interface GUI environment The software provides many features that are not yet found in any other software for the Ultimeter or for that matter any home weather station that we know about The software provides full support of all parameters monitored and units of measure supported by the instrument In addition a number or parameters are derived from data returned by the instruments Fully supported is data logging to disk for later review and analysis All units of measure can be changed on the fly temporarily or changed and save while the program is running These multiple means of configuration offers the maximum in flexibility furthermore units selected for display and units selected for alarms and units selected for voice announcements can all be different and mixed and matched between English and Metric In addition the software provides a wide vari
59. hich two or three pins to insert in the required numbered holes of the adapter 4 Connect only the required wires and individually insulate all unused wires However we recommend that you purchase the cable required for your instrument Peet Bros or any other source that offers a compatible product and that will stand behind the Peet Bros warranty we know of no one except Peet Bros These cables are available from Peet Bros Company 1308 Doris Avenue Ocean New Jersey 07712 Phone 1 908 531 4615 Fax 1 908 517 0669 Ultimeter Il The Ultimeter 11 is fully supported by the software However it offers the least amount of data parameters to monitor and log Many of the softwares features are not available when the Ultimeter amp 11 is in use All data logged while using an Ultimeter amp II can be retained and coexist with data from any other Ultimeter amp should you update to a newer unit in the future You can even go backwards and substitute the U Il for a newer model and then switch back again Ultimeter 500 The Ultimeter amp 500 is fully supported for Data Logging and Complete Record modes to the extent it provides data out Since it does not support any Barometric Pressure or Humidity sensors thus certain parameters will return 0 0 or will be inaccurate if enabled such as Heat Index 14 Ultimeter 800 The Ultimeter 800 is fully supported for Data Logging and Complete Record modes to the extent it provides data out Si
60. ial I O suitable for use under MS Windows with this software is to monitor the serial port with any MS Windows terminal program Hyper Terminal under Windows 95 is just fine First set your Ultimeter to Data Logging mode or Complete Record mode For an Ultimeter II there is only one mode note that the Ultimeter II data output pauses occasionally especially under increasing wind speeds Next configure the terminal program for 2400 baud 8 data bits no parity and 1 stop and set the capture to ASCII file on and connect to get data flow started You will see data flowing on screen mostly combinations of the characters 0 9 and A F going by rather fast and continuously Now go off and perform whatever normal MS Windows operations that you plan to perform while using the SkyWarn 2001 software Then after the required time that you normally get an error close the data file and load into an ASCII editor or Word Processor What you will probably see is the data will start on the left and go to the right and begin and end on even boundaries except for the first and last lines of data if you have any lines that are shorter or longer usually shorter or have characters after the first few first few amp CR amp depending on instrument and mode if you are in the wrong mode you will not get data continuously that are not in the range of 0 9 A F or a dash then you have bad serial 1 O flow If you have lots and lots of this almost all is
61. ion that the files CONFIG DBF CONFIG2 DBF INTERNET DBF and CALIBRAT DBF not be modified in any way even viewing them during the operation of the software can be problematic When data logging is enabled the data is logged on a monthly file naming basis with the possibility of two files being created and updated during the month The first follows the naming convention of mmmyyLOG DBF and the second file is named as mmmyyULT DAT Where mmm is the standard three character abbreviation for Month and yy is the major part of the current year The DAT file is optional it is only created if Data Logging is checked and Save all data to DAT file is checked in setup If you operate your Ultimeter amp in Complete Record mode most of the time and are interested in being able to access the saved Long Term data parameters in the future then Save all data to DAT should be checked Note The current Report program does not yet support the DAT file this support is planned for a future update As an example for the month of January in the 1997 the files were JAN97LOG DBF and JAN97LUT DAT for example The DBF file as mentioned previously is a standard dBase 111 compatible file containing the parametric data common to all instruments However the DAT file is a proprietary compressed format that contains the complete data record returned from the Ultimeter every five 5 minutes during logging This applies to all known models and modes of Ultimeters Howe
62. ithout any data being saved to the computer at all If this is the case then no additional storage space is required however if data is not saved then the softwares Report Module SWREPORT EXE will have not data to use for analysis graphing and reporting you will only be able to perform analysis on the most recent 72 hours of data available in monitoring mode and not beyond The software has been run on everything from the old trusty 386 to the latest Pentium II 300Mhz MMX systems and under MS Windows v3 11 MS Windows 95 and MS Windows NT v4 0 with excellent results It should also function under MS Windows v3 1 with SHARE EXE installed The best results will be achieved with a dedicated computer when running the software to its fullest The various Ultimeter amp models come shipped in their minimum configuration with a bunch of cables however they do not provide as standard the required Ultimeter amp to PC interconnecting cable We also do NOT provide with the SkyWarn 2001 software this required cable We recommend that the cable be purchased from Peet Bros to keep your warranty from being void For the Ultimeter the Peet Bros 4 pin serial cable with a pull up resister is required For the Ultimeter 500 Ultimeter 800 or Ultimeter 2000 either the 4 pin cable or a 6 pin serial cable can be used for logging data but not for modem mode command or packet or telephone modem control For the Ultimeter 2000 the 6 pin serial cable is re
63. l as on age health and body characteristics Wind chill temperatures near or below 0 F indicate that there is a risk of frostbite or other injury to exposed flesh The risk of hypothermia from being inadequately clothed also depends on the wind chill temperature APPARENT WIND CHILL 4 40 35 30 2 20 15 10 5 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 40 35 301 25 201 15 10 5 0 5 10 15 20 25 f 301 35 40 Smph 43 37 32 27 22 16 w 6 of 5 10 26 31 36 42 47 zen 15mph 29 15mph 2Omph 10 DEED 20 25mph 23 25mph Sh 21 13 BET DA 20 12 4 422 20 27 35 48 52 56 35mph 4Omph 19 11 5 pd 40mp 45mph 18 10 6412 ua eae 45mgh _ Frostbite Exposed flesh will freez e within possible Outdoor activity half a minute for the average becomes dangerous person 33 GRAPHS GRAPH MENU Temperature Wind Speed Wind Chill Temp hill Barometer Prevail Speed VAR Rain Fall All Indoor Indoor Temp Rain Snow Indoor Hurnidity Approximately 1 3 of the GUI screen is allocated to the full time display of a user configurable graph The user can select from over thirty 80 individual graphs with user selected units of measure by clicking on the graph The user can select to display up to the last three 3 hours of data on a standard graph in time slices of either the last 30 60
64. ld under the Peet Bros 11 500 800 and 2000 model numbering scheme there also exists many private label units having different model numbers that have serial output that will work just fine with the SkyWarn 2001 software Data Logging Mode For the Ultimeter II this is the only mode it is not even referred to as such since it is the only mode When using the Ultimeter 500 800 or 2000 this mode is only recommended should the user desire the fastest near real time updates on the computer screen for Wind Speed and Direction Also when the user desires a smaller amount of data saved to the system storage media and not care about long term data when creating DAT files Complete Record Mode When using the Ultimeter amp 500 this is the recommended mode to use for full data review and logging It is the only mode that supports long term data Since the 500 does not support the Humidity sensors not all parameters on screen are active As for the 800 barometric Pressure is not provided by the instrument but an 800 may occasionally provide erroneous Barometric data output When using the Ultimeter amp 2000 this is the recommended mode to use for full data review and logging It is the only mode that supports long term data This mode is required if a Peet Bros Weather Picture is being used SOFTWARE STARTUP The program splash screen with user information and data load progress will appear It does not disappear until the user clicks on
65. lection toggles on and off the dockable tool bar Note that the Toolbar is not present in all of the utilities that comprise the SkyWarn 2001 software suite This tool bar or button bar if you like can be left at its default position or moved to the bottom of the menu bar area docked to the sides or just left floating Where ever it is if save setting on exit is on its position will be retained for the next use of the software Above is a floating toolbar layout Skywarn72001 1996 1998 N2CKH Rights Reserved Complete Record Mode System Graph Metering E mail Help 8 0 Hattin RRR ees o e EE Above is the toolbar docked at the top of the screen It can be docked on top bottom and the sides or turned off Above is yet another floating toolbar layout The combinations of floating toolbar appearances are numerous The Toolbar from left to right provides seven major functions Graph associated Resizing and Hiding Printing Clearing Type selection Graph Mode selection Time Span selection and 72 Hour Time Series graph or Spread Sheet data display selections A single click on any of the Toolbar icons immediately initiates the functions selected 53 Display Graph full screen and back to one third screen Hide Graph Hide graph panel menu Print graph to graphics printer Clear graph Select Line graph MD 5 j se Select Area graph Select Ribbon graph Select Pie graph Select Bar graph
66. lems Conversely should you need to go backwards say your U 800 gets hit by lightening and you need to go back to your older U II no problem just switch units and in the case of the U II command line arguments for starting the software TIME SERIES GRAPHS The Time Series graphs are different from the normal graphs in that for most of the graphs provided they allow you to scroll through up to the last 72 hours of data The exceptions are the Percent Wind Direction and Wind Rose graphs these simply show up to a full 72 hours of data at one time It must be noted that if a Time Series graph is selected it will not be updated automatically if left in Time Series mode as normal graphs are Due to the intensive nature of a Time Series Graph with respect to a possible accumulation of 72 hours worth of data during voice spots when active the selection or scrolling of a Time Series Graph is temporarily disabled This is denoted by the normally flashing scroll bar tab momentarily disappearing and the scroll bar color washing out Immediately after the voice spots complete the scroll bar will again become active The Time Series graphs with the exception of the Wind Rose graph can be printed as normal graphs can with the exception that only the data currently displayed by the graph is printed not the entire 72 hours or however much has been accumulated except for the Percent Wind Direction as all the data is displayed at once UNATTENDED AUTOMA
67. ly random and erratic changes Provided on this screen is the selection for the resolution of the rain gauge in use This is not a calibration setting just a selection You must selection the resolution of the rain gauge that you are using if any for an accurate display of rain accumulation 45 The selection tab Voice Spots will provide the user the capability to select which parameters will be announced if any and in what unit of measure and how often The units of measure selected do NOT have to be the same units of measure selection for the display of the parameter in question If you want to display wind speed in Knots but want it announced in MPH then that is what you can configure The spots can be made in 5 10 20 30 and 60 minute increments or randomly By default for Outside Temperature Feels Range we use the National Weather Service Temperature Bin Ranges You may configure your own custom range bins however only the NWS ranges mode will result in this parameter being e mailed 46 When View Edit Custom Bins is selected the screen below will be displayed As can be seen here you may easily create your own custom bins should you desire You will not be expressing this parameter to others with a common perception around the world if you use custom bins Range 100 0 10 100 0 i Since we only accept user entry in degrees C for this release we have provided for user c
68. messages are color coded with reference to the temperature spectrum 30 DATA PANELS TODAYS LOWS CURRENT READINGS TODAYS HIGHS Three Data Panels are provided From left to right they are Todays Lows Current Readings and Todays Highs They share the common parameters across the board of outdoor Temperature Outdoor Humidity Barometer Heat Index and Wind Speed The last parameter across for Todays Lows and Current Readings is Wind Chill whereas for Todays Highs it is Rain Fall Except for Humidity the unit of measure for each parameter is not only user configurable but it can be chosen on the fly by simply clicking on the currently display unit of measure e g click on C and it will change to F The exception is when there are more than two choices then a menu will pop up with the appropriate selections to choose from such as for Barometer However for Humidity there is obviously no options to select As a matter of fact this clicking on the units of measure or graphical objects program wide may achieve a change of some sort In all cases a four pointed arrow as seen below is substituted for the standard mouse cursor except for the Graph and Wind Compass which you can also click on P On the Current Readings panel the Humidity reading also displays the letter D N and H where D equates to Dry N equates to Normal and H equates to Humid On the same panel the Barometer reading displays S for Steady R for Raising an
69. minutes and scrolled from the current reading back to the last 72 hours while maintaining the time span of view selected when in Time Series graph mode The GUI screen display has been logically broken down into three sections The first is the left hand side of the screen which shows current Wind Speed Direction and Temperature Wind Chill on graphical virtual instruments with interlaced textual updates and a moving Wind Speed bar graph Next is the upper right hand side of the screen display which provides the graph display as user configured which can be selected to display full screen Lastly we display on the bottom left side of the screen the Data Panels which have both Current Today Low and Today s High readings date and time for High s Low s by clicking on data box for Temperature Heat Index Wind Chill Humidity with Dry Normal and Humid indicators Barometric Pressure with Raising Steady and Falling indicators Wind Speed Rain Fall Total The stand alone Analysis Graphing and Reporting module SWREPORT EXE supports up to one full month of data at one time Featuring both single and multiple parameter graphs of Line Area Bar and Ribbon types along with combinations such as the Climograph and the specialty Wind Rose graph as provided in the monitoring program 27 WIND The most fluid of parameters are Wind Speed and Wind Direction without exception these experience the most change and are the most exciting to watch
70. mm net gt To kipdee isla net Subject Automated SkyWarn 2001 tm Weather Report 17 1998 17 51 04 UTC X Mailer SkyWarn 2001 v1 0 0 by N2CKH X UIDL 3f6aa9152ee31cd89a53f6e0d65458b5 STATION N2CKH Lakewood New Jersey Lat 40 066 Lon 074 218 Grid Sq FN20vb Report Interval 1 hour report cycle DATE May 17 1998 17 51 04 UTC Current Temperature 71 5 F Today s Low Temp 56 8 F Today s High Temp 73 0 F Temperature Feels HOT Wind Chill 71 5 F Dew Point 48 6 F Humidity 44 4 Comfort Range Normal Heat Index 75 6 F Barometer FALLING 29 9 in 38 Wind Speed 4 0 MPH Wind Speed Peak 5 8 MPH 1 Min Wind Average 3 7 MPH Wind Direction SSE Wind Beaufort Scale LIGHT BREEZE Wind Fujita Scale FO Cumulus Cloud Height 5084 Feet This weather report has been generated automatically during the use of SkyWarn 2001 tm SkyWarn 2001 tm v1 0 0 Copyright 1996 98 by N2CKH All Rights Reserved Worldwide Note Send e mail for information or to be removed from the recipient list 39 SkyWarn 2001 Menus Skywarn72001 1996 1998 N2CKH All Rights Reserved Complete Record Mode System Graph Metering E mail Help e The pull down menu selections consist of System Graph Metering E mail and Help We shall cover all five of the top level menu selections going down though the drop down menu
71. must be retained and may be used by the Licensee The only exception is that of any printouts that the Software may create in that the Software places any identification as to the source of the printout the ultimate use of those printouts containing the name of the Software or whatever is embedded must be retained and may be used by the Licensee Furthermore all images exported to graphic file formats either directly saved copied to the clipboard or otherwise captured and used in any publications either printed to paper or film or electronically published to the Internet must bear the caption This image was created using SkyWarn 2001 tm by N2CKH in no finer than number 6 pitch 6 EXPORT LAW Licensee agrees and certifies that the software shall NOT be shipped transferred or reexported directly or indirectly into any country 7 U S GOVERNMENT USE This software is NOT intended for use by the U S Government This software is intended only for Non Commercial educational and hobby use For any user with special requirements please contact the Publisher 8 TERM The license granted hereby is effective until terminated Your license to use this software will automatically terminate if you fail to comply with the terms of this Agreement If this license is terminated you agree to destroy all copies of the software Upon such termination Licensee shall cease using the Software All restrictions prohibiting Licensee s use of the Sof
72. nal use only Field 4 is for internal use only Fahrenheit Fahrenheit Fahrenheit km h km h km h km h 0 360 degrees N NE E etc 16 points Milibars RH Inches Inches Fahrenheit RH As you can see with the exception of fields three and four you can easily utilize any Data Base or Spread Sheet program that supports dBase 111 files to import and manipulate the data 26 OVERVIEW The SkyWarn 2001 Graphical User Interface GUI Display has been developed to provide the best visual display of both the current data and the days weather Highs and Lows to date We have kept the display clean and clear making the most of the graphical environment as it benefits the user in viewing and interpreting the data I emm m jm md Dike Tenperasure The software utilizes standard Windows pull down menus and toolbars floatable and dockable toolbar which can be docked at the top bottom and sides or left floating for the selection of various features and parameters Also provided is a Graph Menu Panel which can be toggled on or off for the most common graphs which when active obscures the Today s Highs panel Full featured graphing and printing capabilities are provided which support views of data up to a three 3 hour time span on screen and also scrollable through the last 72 hours of data collected The actual graph window can be configured in time view spans of 30 60 90 120 150 and 180
73. nce it does not support Barometer all barometric output from the units data stream is invalid The main barometric reading is returned as which we interpret as 0 0 however the Long Term data stream contains data which will be inaccurate should data be returned Ultimeter 2000 The Ultimeter amp 2000 is fully supported for Data Logging and Complete Record modes This instrument fully exploits the complete capabilities of the SkyWarn 2001 software Sensors For all Ultimeter amp models the 500 800 and 2000 when a sensor is not attached or supported the software will automatically detect that the sensor is missing and return 0 0 for the given unit of measure for the missing type sensor It is up to the user to their hardware limitations and realize that 0 0 inches of rain when you are experiencing a down pour is correct since at that time you have no rain gauge attached Heated Rain Gauge Peet Bros now offers the Heated Ultimeter amp PRO Wired Rain Gauge NOTE this gauge is NOT compatible with ULTIMETER 11 This is the recommended Heated Rain gauge for use with a new Ultimeter 500 800 or 2000 instrument However the long time standard Peet Bros Wired Rain Gauge is usable with all Ultimeter models and can be modified for heated operation It is a self emptying tipping bucket design measures in 0 01 inch 2 5 mm increments It is easily adapted to heated operation by using the Davis Rain Collector Heater model
74. north northeast northeast etc and six wind speed classes for your location and time period Also included is the percent frequency of calm winds Provides a Prevailing Wind Direction graph using a horizontal bar graph which depicts the percentage of time wind has been blowing from the 16 major compass points and the percentage of time wind has been calm for up to the last 3 hours Provides both Temperature Rain Climograph and surface Meteogram type graphs Provides a single screen display of current and Long Term data for the U 500 U 800 and U 2000 with the provision for Date and Time display of Long Term readings when available Provides the user an option of saving all data output from an Ultimeter amp just the most needed data or not to save any data at all Provides an algorithm for Snow accumulation from melted snow in accordance with National Weather Service snow melt table when using a Heated Rain Gauge Provides an algorithm to display the height of Cumulus clouds which is also used to indicate the possible presence of fog conditions Provides near real time autoranging indication of wind speed with Low High Average and Peak displayed Provides a Wind Speed meter with an auto ranging feature that is calibrated from 0 to 300 in the user selected units of measure of MPH Km h MPS or Knots The wind speed range can also be locked into a user selected range Also provided is a selectable visual warning range which sounds a
75. onvenience is a temperature calculator that accepts either a value in degrees C top box or degrees F bottom box and displays the same value in the other unit of measure Note that the range provided of 100 to 100 C slightly exceeds the current rating on the Ultimeter sensors however it was convenient for our purposes and leaves open the door for future sensor capability 47 The selection tab Alarms will provide the user the capability of setting alarms for 21 parameters which include both Outdoor and Indoor Temperature and Humidity Highs and Lows Dew Point Barometric Pressure Highs and Lows Wind Chill Low Heat Index High Wind Peak High Sustained Wind High both Rain Rate Per Hour and Rain Accumulation High and Flash Flood T IX Ep ik In ihiz elnare mie Temperalucs in degrees Farenheighl Peecipatian in Intex Picara i in mha Eid Speed in 5 Warning Snow Rate Per Hour and Snow Accumulation High The values entered for any particular parameter are checked against the range of that parameter for the Ultimeter and will not allow an excessive value to be entered Entries may be made and save for any parameter at any time but will not be acted upon unless the check box for that parameter is selected Entries and check boxes may be selected as in any other parameter in the program for that given session if no data is saved however remember that when any changes are made that saving
76. page or a range of pages is supported Sky arn poc EBERT Complete Out Dror Dein Ascending Order Leg Report TIMF SND CHL LOY AD PEA DOA EE TTR AC FALE KT ml fet ZI 4 11 7 IROL EH ae 76 GLOSSARY Anemometer an instrument that measures wind speed Apparent Temperature the temperature derived from the Heat Index scale as a function of temperature and humidity Barometer an instrument that measures atmospheric pressure Celsius a temperature scale where at sea level water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees This is the standard unit of measure for surface temperature in most of the world Cumulus Cloud Height clouds can float from a few feet above the earth Fog all the way up to 40 000 and higher Cumulus cloud height can be derived algorithmically from the current known Temperature and Dew Point When less than 150 feet there is a possibility of Fog Data Warehousing Assembling large amount of data for analysis Dew water that condenses on objects near the ground when their temperatures have fallen below the dew point of the surface air Dew Point the temperature at which air must be cooled for saturation to occur When the Dew Point falls below freezing it is called the frost point Fahrenheit a temperature scale where water f
77. pass Type Hide Compass Compass Type Toggles between the default modern panel instrument type and an old world style wind vane Hide Compass The compass as all other objects on the GUI interface can be hidden from view What ever is active if save setting on exit is on it will be retained for the next use of the software 57 Wind Speed Hide Air Speed AutoRange On Range Select Warning Select On Alarms Off Alarm List ON Hide Meter UnHide Meter Toggles the Wind Meter object on and off Autorange On Autorange Off Toggles autorange on and off Note When off wind in excess of the current range will pin the meter at full scale should it exceed the currently selected range Range Select On Range Select Off Enables Disables a list box to select the meter range when not in autorange Warning Select On Warning Select Off Enables Disables a list box to select the wind speed 1 alarm speed trip point Alarms Off Alrams On Toggles the 1 wind speed alarm on or off Alarm List On Alarm List Off Enables Disables the alarm tripped pull down combo box which records the last 1000 alarms 58 Thermometers E mail Help Compass gt Wind Speed gt Thermometers Hide Temperature Lows Current Highs gt Hide Wind Chill Hide UnHide Temperature Toggles the Outdoor Thermometer object on and off Hide UnHide Wind Chill Toggles the Wind Chill Thermometer
78. pdated at five 5 minute intervals rather than continuously all other data displays are constantly updated as data is decoded Now that data is being displayed the menu selections are all active At this point you can sit back and watch the parameters change in unison with the displayed data on the Ultimeter display and if you wait long enough you will also begin to see data displayed in the graph area as well Note that the instrument updates its display then sends data out the serial port thus the computer screen updates especially in Complete Record mode lag way behind the Ultimeter amp should you attempt to visually watch wind speed and direction on the instrument and computer at the same time However being that this is the first time the software is being used now is the time for the next step of the installation and configuration At this time click on the System menu and click on Setup and proceed to the Setup section of the manual STARTUP PROBLEMS The most common problem is the serial cable between the Ultimeter amp and the computers serial port Assuming that you have the required cable Peet Bros does NOT provide one by default most often the cable is simply not connected or not connected to the correct serial port on the PC so start there and if you find a lose connection or wrong connection retry the software NOTE We do not provide this cable with this software package nor do we sell this cable at this time The ins
79. proper operation However we recommend running MS Windows v3 11 as the minimum operating environment From our experience during the development cycle of the SkyWarn 2001 software we must recommend for many reasons that the SkyWarn 2001 software is the only application in use when using the full screen GUI SkyWarn 2001 SKYW2001 EXE executable and MS Windows 3 x As this program can require a full 8MB of RAM for its own use at startup and an additional 2MB for data after left running for 72 hours The CPU cycles that another application may be using can easily cause problems do to the nature of the non protocol data flow NOTE The main problem that we have experienced involves Internet usage performing intensive operations such as FTP transfers or lots of browser graphical screen updates in rapid succession The result is an erroneous reading of one more parameters attributed to data overrun loss or changed data bits The software is designed and is best used on a Super VGA SVGA system in 1024 x 768 with small fonts A 800 x 600 video display in small fonts is usable smaller is not recommended Even though you can resize the program down to 640 x 480 and into the dirt it is not at all usable at those resolutions NOTE We had originally planned to allow for the user to decide which GUI components would be turned on or off this code is in place at any time for instance should you not have a completely working anemometer in the middle of
80. quired if you want to be able to access modem mode features to send data to the instrument NOTE According to Peet Bros published information they are sharing the serial connector with one of the their sensors and a potential for damage to your Ultimeter amp exists if mis wiring of the serial cable occurs You can visit the Peet Bros website at http www peetbros com to get information and wiring diagrams as seen below for making your own cable in all cases use the appropriate 9 or 25 pin D connector to mate with your PC s RS 232 port MOM I MODEL fn PIN AND PI AND FUNCTION FUNCTION DEF is DH ZE ne IMH 9 IMH 25 de COMPUTER COMPUTER Tht HC Be aware that a regulated D C voltage is brought to the serial output receptacle on the ULTIMETER 2000 and 500 The regulator is likely to be damaged if you accidentally reverse the sequence of serial cable wires If you plan to make a serial interface cable we urge you to take the following steps to avoid malfunction and possible damage when wiring a DB 9 or DB 25 modular adapter 1 Examine the standard modular phone cord you intend to use to determine on which end the color sequence of wires matches the color sequence of wires on the adapter 2 Plug the matching end of the cord into the adapter 3 Wire color will now be continuous from the modular plug at one end to the adapter insert pins at the other end so you can use wire color as a guide determining w
81. ram However usually just reconnecting to your Internet provider will correct the situation Internet e mail Server Error 0X 0X XXXX XX XX XX Unrecognized Error An Internet aware utility is running and your system is not currently connected to the internet or was not connected during an update period and has since be reconnected The best thing to do is exit the program make sure that your Internet connection is active and restart the program However usually just reconnecting to your Internet provider will correct the situation Graph Control Error The following will appear on screen in order after pressing the OK button for each part Part 1 Need Graphx Series 4 00 or later OK Part 2 SkyWarn 2001 Can t load Custom Control DLL C SKYWARN GRAPHX VBX OK Part 3 SkyWarn 2001 Unexpected Error Quitting OK This Graph control error is caused by a problem loading the GraphX custom control by Pinnacle software which we use for most of our graphs It happens on program start usually after the program has been improperly shutdown It can also be caused by a damaged GRAPHX VBX file or by an improper version being substituted for the version shipped with the software The answer here is to reboot and or reinstall the software rebooting usually clears the problem 65 APPENDIX C KNOWN ANOMOLIES Prevailing Wind Direction after Time Series Description When switching from Time Series graph mode immediately to th
82. reezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 Developed in the early 1700 s by G Daniel Fahrenheit it is the standard for surface temperature measurements in the United States Fog a cloud with its base at the earth s surface that reduces visibility Freezing The change of liquid into ice Heat Index a function of temperature and relative humidity The result is Apparent Temperature which provides one with an idea of how dangerous it may be outdoors Heated Rain Gauge a Rain Gauge with a built in heating device to melt frozen precipitation Knot a unit of speed equal to 1 nautical mile per hour 1 Knot is equal to 1 15 MPH Melt Water Table a table compiled by the National Weather Service that provides a statistical relationship between the amounts of snow fall and the corresponding water equivalent at specified temperature ranges The table is only approximate actual values for a specific storm can vary significantly from the table Milibar mbar a unit of measure for atmospheric pressure Sea level pressure is nominally 1013 25 mbar Rain precipitation in the form of liquid water drops that have diameters of 01 inches and greater Rain Gauge an instrument designed to collect and measure the amount of rain that falls during a given time interval It should be mounted relatively level and away from all objects that obstruct the wind Relative Humidity the ratio of the amount of water vapor actually in the
83. rs when the snowflakes are deflected away from the collector by the Chimney effect The warmed air rising from the rain gauge when the heaters are operating causes deflection of snowflakes that would otherwise have entered the gauge It is very important that your rain gauge be located in the open and clear from your buildings and trees Nothing is worse than water or snow chunks or ice falling into the gauge Furthermore wind in not a friend when it comes to rain and especially snow collection A wind shield of some type is preferred over none However even with a wind shield when the winds start to increase above 4 MPH the point that Wind Chill begins and especially gusty winds the precipitation falling into the rain gauge can not help but be affected 71 Appendix F Frequently Asked Questions SkyWarn 2001 doesn t see my Ultimeter on the serial port There many possibilities to cause problems 1 Make sure the cables and connections are all correct 2 Make sure that you have selected the correct serial port 3 Make sure that your Windows hardware configuration for address and IRQ are set correctly 4 Make sure your serial card is configured correctly for IRQ and Address 5 If you are using Windows 95 NT does it recognize your hardware as being in working state in hardware configuration 6 Is some other program also trying to use the same serial port simultaneously 7 Do you have an internal modem which might
84. s arising out of use of or inability to use the Software even if the Publishers or its dealer have been advised of the possibility of such damages Some states do not allow the exclusion or limitation of certain implied warranties or the exclusion or limitation of incidental or consequential damages in which case and to the extent such exclusion or limitation is not allowed some of the foregoing limitations and exclusions may not apply to Licensee 12 GENERAL This Agreement shall be interpreted construed and enforced according to the laws of the State of New Jersey United States of America In the event of any action under this Agreement the parties agree that federal and state courts located in Newark and Trenton New Jersey will have exclusive jurisdiction and that a suit may only be brought in Newark or Trenton New Jersey and Licensee submits itself for the jurisdiction and venue of the state and federal courts located in New Jersey This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and understanding of the parties and may be modified only in writing signed by both parties No officer salesman or agent has any authority to obligate the Publishers by any terms stipulations or conditions not expressed in the Agreement All previous representations and agreements if any either verbal or written referring to the subject matter of this Agreement are void If any portion of this Agreement is determined to be legally invalid or unenforceable suc
85. s based on the S3 chip causing data loss and dropped characters The author has experienced this problem with a Number 9 GXE64 Pro video card Updated drivers are available and you are encouraged to contact your video card manufacturer Video cards and drivers are a source of many problems always ensure that you have the latest version Other hardware drivers and DOS Terminate and Stay Resident TSR programs have also been known to cause comm overruns and other errors Generally these problems arise when the program hogs the processor and prevents the processor from servicing the comm port in a timely fashion Communications software that utilizes INT14 i o can also cause comm overruns Check your System ini for the presence of an int14 driver Other rare sources of overrun problems include bad disk drivers especially Promise drivers and BIOS firmware check for available updates screensavers disable them sound drivers check for updates and other problems related to disk activity disabling smartdrv and or 32 bit i o might help depending on the version of windows in use Certain newer models of computer especially PCI local bus Pentium machines are equipped with SMC 665 i o controllers These devices serve the same purpose as the 16550A UART in addition to other functions Furthermore the MSD program will report them as a 16550A UART Unfortunately there is a problem with this 16550A UART implementation which may result in system lo
86. s that puts a strain on the computers resources It tends to occur most often during voice spots It is trapped but since data displayed and announced can become erroneous the program will be halted Error 3219 This error results from heavy CPU use like that of an Internet browser program use or other operations that puts a strain on the computers resources It tends to occur most often during voice spots It is trapped but since data displayed and announced can become erroneous the program will be halted Couldn t find installable ISAM An older version of VBRUNSOO DLL is in the path on the system Make sure that the latest version you have possibly the version shipped with the software is in the path and delete the 63 older versions During Comm1 Top Trapped Error This error usually results from heavy CPU use like that of an Internet browser program use or other operations that puts a strain on the computers resources It tends to occur most often during voice spots It is trapped but since data displayed and announced can become erroneous the program will be halted The number that follows Error x can be an aid in determining the exact problem During Program Load 0 to 100 At 10 program load Missing or damaged CALIBRAT DBF file in x SKYWARN directory At 1590 5090 program load Missing or damaged CONFIG DBF file in x SKYWARN directory At 60 program load Missing or damaged CONFIG2 DBF file in x SKYWARN
87. seagull alarm each instance of a high wind alarm and adds the last 1000 new alarm gusts read with the data and time to a drop down combo box for later review Provides both Beaufort Scale and Fujita scales of wind force ratings on screen and in voice spots Beaufort Scale Originally devised in 1806 by Admiral Sir F Beaufort British Navy the scale has twelve 12 force bins ranging from a Force of 0 at less than 1 MPH Knots winds described as Calm to a Force of 12 at greater than 73 MPH 64 Knots described as Hurricane Fujita Scale Originally devised by Professor T Fujita of the University of Chicago The Fujita Tornado Scale is based upon damage caused by very high winds on land It classifies these twisters into six 6 categories as FO through F5 ranging from 40 MPH to 300 MPH winds The Peet Bros anemometer is rated well into F3 158 206 MPH and may be good beyond 21 Provides National Weather Service temperate scale ratings from Bitter Cold to Freezing to Very Hot both on screen and in voice spots In addition a method is provided for the user to substitute their own temperature bins for use instead of the NWS bins Provides user selectable voice spots on a random interval and every 5 10 20 30 and 60 minutes using Sound Blaster compatible board with all parameters selectable on or off and units of measure separately selectable from the units used for display The software is Y2K Year 2000 compliant and provides support for
88. sion of the enclosed Software Licensee may use the Software to monitor and or save data from one Ultimeter instrument on one 1 IBM or compatible personal computer which is either a stand alone work station or a networked work station that does not permit the Software to be shared with other networked work stations If Licensee wishes to use the Software simultaneously on more than one personal computer Licensee must license additional copies of the Software The Licensee may however install and use the software on a second computer for the purpose of analyzing the data gathered by the software from an Ultimeter instrument 2 SINGLE END USER APPLICATION As the Licensee of the Software you may NOT redistribute the application or copy it other than for archival purposes Upon Licensee s end of use of the Software the licensee agrees that they are prohibited from reselling redistribution or copying of the Software The Licensee can retain the Software for future use or destroy the Software 3 REDISTRIBUTION OF SOFTWARE No redistribution of the Software is permitted 4 OTHER RESTRICTIONS Licensee may not use copy other than for archival purposes only rent lease sell sublicense assign or otherwise transfer the Software or any copy modification or merged portion in whole or in part except as expressly provided for in this Agreement Licensee acknowledges that the Software in source code form remains a confidential trade secret o
89. tate to inform us of any errors or suggestions for improvement regarding the documentation and the software SUPPORT Please do not hesitate to contact us with any anomalies or suggestions for improvement by any means we have available We prefer e mail as it is the fastest and will allow us to respond usually within 24 hours your e mail please state SKYWARN 2001 in the subject line of the message However by what ever means possible please provide us with your feedback as user feedback is our best means to find any deficiencies and to make the software more of what you and all the users really want it to be We maintain the following points of contact Website http www QTH com n2ckh ByteWise org e mail n2ckh cybercomm net mail Stephen B Hajducek U S P O Box 8 Morganville New Jersey 07751 0008 We also have a moderated mailing list that any interested party can subscribe to for the exchange of questions comments and tips from all subscribed parties as follows Subscribe using browser at http SKYWARN2001 listbot com Send a post using e mail to SKYWARN2001 listbot com UPDATES Here we are discussing updates and you only just purchased the software Well the times that we live in are rapidly changing and computer hardware and software are prime examples of this paradigm The SkyWarn 2001 v1 0 0 software is an MS Windows 16 bit application We plan to continue the development of the SkyWarn 2001 soft
90. ter 800 or Ultimeter 2000 There is no command argument selection for the Ultimeter 800 it is used as if it was a U 2000 that does not have a working Barometer If you do not have the Humidity sensor then use the U 500 command selections appropriately Note some U 800 units return erroneous Barometric readings when the software is operated in normal U 2000 mode SAVED DATA When data logging is enabled all data is saved to the x directory DATA subdirectory where is either the default CASKYWARN drive or whatever the user selected at installation The software can be installed on any drive on the users PC but the subdirectory hierarchy must be adhered too The install program creates the required subdirectory structure of WAV REPORTS and GRAPHS for you If you decide that you want the software on another drive or base directory other than were you originally installed it it is recommended that you reinstall from the master disks and then copy and data saved to the DATA directory and then delete the original subdirectory tree NOTE We do not support the use of network drives in this version of the software We have chosen to utilize the industry standard dBase 111 compatible file structure for both our program configuration data and standard saved data file types In the following paragraphs we will fully document the logic and structure of the files used for the saved data However we must caut
91. that most users of the software are not interested in reviewing more than the last 72 hours or data and are not even interested in printing reports lf that is the case with you then skip this aspect of the software at this time as it is not as user friendly or as useful as we intend it to become However we also understand that those who are interested in more elaborate data analysis reporting and printing now and will continue to import data into third party database and spread sheet software We feel that there does exist the need for a separate Report program to be included with our package even though the competition does not provide one provides strong Graphing Reporting and Printing capabilities as a usual utility to round out our product It is our goal to provide a Report program that will cause even the sophisticated user of Database and Spreadsheet software to find the capabilities in our program to be of interest However at present the 16 bit tools used to create Skywarn 2001 are limited in what they do and do well for instance we can only support the manipulation of one months worth of data at a time The future 32 bit version of the software will be a big advancement in this and other areas When the Report module is started the screen will appear as seen below The only menu options that are enabled are System and Time Span until a monthly database file is opened TimeSpan Piori eye
92. that starts using the software as an owner of a U II or U 500 can upgrade to a U 800 or U 2000 and the software will detect the change and immediately start working with he new unit or for that matter the opposite is true as well All data saved can be intermixed between the different models so changing from an older model to a new or back again at times is fully supported 22 Of particular interest to Ultimeter II owners is the nasty characteristic is the output stops in mid stream as wind speeds increase and then continues again This often makes it difficult for the software to tell that the unit is even attached to the PC at startup So we do recommend that the software be started be selecting the appropriate icon for the model that you are using it will speed up the start of the software rather than having the software analyze the data stream as long and possibly fails to detect the instrument ICON SELECTION To start the monitoring of data with the main SkyWarn 2001 GUI program SKYW2001 EXE and an Ultimeter 2000 simply click on the provided main SkyWarn 2001 icon selection The program at startup will attempt to auto detect the model and mode in use For users of models other than the Ultimeter 2000 the user may want to customize or create a new startup icons with specific command lines arguments that will help start the software faster and also address certain model to model differences in the Ultimeter family line We provide
93. tion of accumulated snow fall about the heated rain gauge being used We have followed guide lines provided by the National Weather Service on approximate snowfall amounts at specified temperature ranges for melt water equivalent capture The NWS tables used provide a statistical relationship between amounts of snow fall and the corresponding water equivalent at specified temperature ranges It must be remembered however that this table and its values are only approximate actual values for a specific storm can vary significantly due to many variables Basically when the air temperature drops below 34 degrees Fahrenheit any precipitation will begin to register as snow fall If the temperature raises again it will turn back into rain fall The relationship between precipitation and snow fall at decreasing temperatures is not linear The ratios of precipitation or melt water to snow fall accumulation will with decreasing temperature increase from a 10 1 ration to over a 100 1 ratio at 40 degrees Fahrenheit It has been our experience that Freezing Rain has not been interpreted as snow fall more than about 596 of the time and this is usually during the change over period when the accumulation is just beginning and account to no more than about 3 inches Several factors affect the heated tipping bucket s performance with snow The biggest loss of snow tips is due to evaporation when the collector heaters attempt to liquefy snow Another loose occu
94. truments do not attach to the computer via a standard RS 232 serial port cable a special cable must be purchased or wired for use with a PC There are two types of cables a 4 wire cable for the Ultimeter II compatible units and a 6 wire cable for the 500 800 and 2000 compatible units NOTE According to Peet Bros Published information they are sharing the serial connector with one of the their sensors and a potential for damage to your Ultimeter amp exists if mis wiring of the serial cable occurs You can visit the Peet Bros Website at http www peetbros com to get information and wiring diagrams for making your own cable however we recommend that you purchase the cable required for your instrument from them or any other source that offers a compatible product and that will stand behind the Peet Bros Warranty we know of no one except Peet Bros The next most common problem with the exception of the Ultimeter II series of units which has only one type of serial data output mode is the current operating mode of the instrument Refer to the documentation for your instrument however for Ultimeter amp 500 800 or 2000 or any compatible unit there are many operating modes possible for a given instrument to be in after its initial power on With respect to the Ultimeter amp 550 800 2000 and compatible units the Data Logging Mode is achieved by pressing and holding the CLEAR and WIND SPEED icons for three seconds Complete Record Mode
95. ture when the dew point temperature is 57 2F 14C At higher dew point temperatures the apparent temperature exceeds the actual temperature and measures the increased physiological heat stress and discomfort associated with higher than comfortable humidity When the dew point is less than 57 2F on the other hand the apparent temperature is less than the actual air temperature and measures the reduced stress and increased comfort associated with lower humidity and greater evaporative skin cooling Apparent temperatures greater than 80 F are generally associated with some discomfort Values approaching or exceeding 105 F are considered life threatening with severe heat exhaustion or heatstroke possible if exposure is prolonged or physical activity high The degree of heat stress may vary with age health and body characteristics 32 The Wind Chill temperature is a measure of relative discomfort due to combined cold and wind It was developed by Siple and Passel 1941 and is based on physiological studies of the rate of heat loss for various combinations of ambient temperature and wind speed The wind chill temperature equals the actual air temperature when the wind speed is 4 mph or less At higher wind speeds the wind chill temperature is lower than the air temperature and measures the increased cold stress and discomfort associated with wind The effects of wind chill depend strongly on the amount of clothing and other protection worn as wel
96. tware and intellectual property provisions relating to Software running to the benefit of the Publisher will survive termination of the license pursuant hereto 9 EXCLUSION OF WARRANTIES The Publishers offer and the Licensee accepts the Software AS IS The Publishers do NOT warrant that the Software will meet Licensee s requirements or will operate uninterrupted or error free WARRANTIES EXPRESS OR IMPLIED ARE EXCLUDED FROM THIS AGREEMENT AND SHALL NOT APPLY TO ANY SOFTWARE LICENSED UNDER THIS AGREEMENT INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT 10 LICENSEE S REMEDIES LIMITATIONS LICENSEE S SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDIES AGAINST THE PUBLISHERS ON ANY AND ALL LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORIES OF RECOVERY SHALL BE FOR A PERIOD OF NINETY 90 DAYS FROM THE DATE OF PURCHASE AS EVIDENCED BY A COPY OF YOUR RECEIPT AT THE PUBLISHERS SOLE DISCRETION A REPAIR OR REPLACEMENT OF DEFECTIVE SOFTWARE OR B REFUND OF THE LICENSE FEE PAID BY LICENSEE MINUS A 40 RESTOCKING FEE WHEN ALL MATERIALS ARE RETURNED AT THE LICENSEES EXPENSE AFTER OBTAINING A MATERIALS RETURN AUTHORIZATION MRA NUMBER 11 NO LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES In no event shall the Publishers or its suppliers be liable for any damages whatsoever including without limitation damages for loss of business profits business interruption loss of business information or other pecuniary los
97. ually have GUIO or GUI1 or Data Log Top in the error message This is NOT a problem with our software but rather any software attempting to perform non handshaking protocol serial under MS Windows Other manufacturers of software supporting any device that communicates under Windows without handshaking protocols will suffer from the same problem This is especially true when the data stream is both non handshaking and continuous as in the case of the Peet Bros instruments In normal RS 232 communications the data flow is controlled by the handshaking lines referred to as Request to Send RTS and Clear to Send CTS The problem is that the Peet instruments do not make use of these lines to control data flow and they do not make use of any protocol not even a simple checksum method to validate data integrity as some other instruments do In the days of single tasking DOS these factors were not a big problem however we are now well beyond those days The industry is well aware of how the multitasking time slicing prioritized MS Windows is a poor choice for continuous non handshaking serial This is magnified when multiport operations are attempted using modem communications at high baud rates and data flow This is a complicated problem in that it is not limited to just the serial I O drivers A number of data communications and other problems with Windows have been associated with video drivers There have been many instances of video card
98. ur software Weather Picture The Weather Picture from Peet Bros when used with a splitter cable to a PC will not have any effect on any PC based software working with an Ultimeter as far as we know Please note that Complete Record mode operation is required for the Weather Picture WEATHER MODEM We have no experience with the Peet Bros Weather Modem However should you have a need for remote weather retrieval with a Peet Bros U 2000 or any model that has Modem Mode we can help We developed and tested this capability and our WxRemote software back in 1996 prior to anything from Peet We can use almost any standard external modem and a dumb cable For additional information request our TECH NOTE 9701 03 or visit our website at http www QTH com n2ckh bytewise org for an on line copy Our software calls in and downloads one Complete Record Mode data record and hangs up This usually takes less than one minute depending on line quality The software then displays all the data downloaded a screen display similar to the Long Term Data screen is provided VOICE SPOTS AND OTHER SOUNDS While we are on the subject of hardware requirements for all users but of great interest to the vision impaired the software also supports user configurable voice announcements of all major parameters at user defined five minute minimum intervals To make use of this capability your system must have installed and properly working a sound card and speaker
99. ver it really only makes sense to create the DAT file when using a 500 800 or 2000 and then only in Complete Record mode and then only if you are interesting in the Long Term data parameters being accessible from a future version of the Report program For data warehousing an entire years worth of data is archived into a PKZIP amp however PKZIP software is not required compatible file format on a monthly basis The file is named YEARyy ZIP where yy is the major part of the current year Although software is provided for the creation and update of these archives the user must manually extract DBF and DAT files using any available PKZIP compatible file format tools when extraction is required An entire years worth of both DBF and DAT file that takes about 26MB of storage space when stored to this ZIP file will only require about 4 MB or storage when the individual files for that year are deleted 24 Here is the first four months of 1998 saved data as found on the authors test system Take note that the SKYWARN DBF file must NOT be deleted from this directory as it is used as the template file to create the required monthly DBF files Volume in drive D has no label Volume Serial Number is 115B OADF Directory of D skywarn data SKYWARN JAN98LOG YEAR98 JAN98ULT FEB98LOG FEB98ULT MAR98LOG MAR98ULT APR98LOG APR98ULT DBF DBF ZIP DAT DBF DAT DBF DAT DBF DAT DIR DIR 64
100. ware with the next full release being a 32 bit application We will discontinue coding in 16 bit tools as 16 bit Windows has now been surpassed by newer versions and we really cannot squeeze in very much more functionality with the 16 bit environment and tools However we will continue to provide bug fix updates and add a few new features to the 16 bit baseline until we feel it is no longer a viable use of our efforts All updates to the SkyWarn 2001 software beginning with v1 0 1 as required will be FREE of charge when downloaded from the current support site that we maintain on the Internet at http www QTH com n2ckh bytewise org or when an e mail attachment request is made if the size of the update allows for sending via e mail An update of the v1 x x variety via floppy disk will be sent via the same methods and current postage and handling costs as all new orders at the time of the request for the update All updates that represent a full version release for instance the planned release of v2 0 0 as a 32 bit enhanced version of v1 0 0 will be sold at 5096 of the then current new purchase price plus the then current full shipping and handling costs to any registered user of any previous version We plan many enhancements and new features for the planned future 32 bit releases of the software some of which we worked real hard on for the 16 bit version but just could not squeeze them in or make them work with the 16 bit tools INTRODUCTION
101. y The importance of this screen is listing of the persons name and address that the software is licensed to and contact information to get in touch with us via snail mail or e mail 60 Appendix A This Appendix lists Error codes or statements in numerical alphabetic order that have occurred during the stress testing of the software along with recommended remedies The best recommendation right up front is that your PC have a clean installation of the version of MS Windows that it can run and that no Anti Virus Installation Tracking Anti Crash or other software be installed and running when using our monitoring software This is of course the best scenario possible highly unlikely that many people will operate a dedicated PC however so read on First and foremost we have decided to trap all errors then halt the program to keep erroneous data from being saved In all cases we provide you with the Error information for you to look up here or communicate to us in an effort help figure out the cause of the error situation Most of the Errors below can be generated as the result of to many programs running and heavy Internet Browser use while connected to the Internet via a dial up modem or from using software that causes a similar strain on CPU processing A characteristic of this strain in CPU processing is distortion in the speech of Voice Spots if enabled Another characteristic is erroneous data readings being displayed These errors will us

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