Thanks for responses, yes we looking to better record bara pressure changes.
Most of our sailing is in South East Australia and we live and have the boat
moored in the Tamar Estuary which leads into Bass Strait. Three weeks ago we
had a local extreme weather event where the Bureau of Meteorology forecast
went from strong wind, to gale, to storm warning in a very short time
period. We were caught out with the boat on the mooring and no safe way to
get to it safely. About 20 boats were lost or damaged, we were lucky with
no damage but the mooring dragged 20metre. After this we reflected on what
would have happened if we had been in Bass Strait and we concluded we needed
to upgrade our weather forecasting and not to depend on waiting for the
official warning releases. We already have weather fax via HF but we are now
going to use an automatic scheduling programme to automatically download
faxes and at the same time want to data log bara pressure at the boat
position so as to better analyse whats happening.
So any info on a quality barametric sensor with capability for lap top
connection would be appreciated. We dont want to go to the complexity of a
data logger if we can avoid it, so we are looking for a smart bara sensor.
Thanks,
David.
"engsol" wrote in message
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Just curious...
The USB requirement suggests interfacing with a PC.
For what reason? Logging pressure during a voyage?
Norm B

On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 21:42:57 +1100, "David & Lynne"
wrote:

Can anyone recommend a good quality digital barometer with a USB
connection.
Looked at Conex Weather Jack on www.starpath.com but the Conex web site
is
"under construction" so I cannot verify accuracy from manufacturers web
site. I would appreciate any first hand experiances on this or similiar
devices.
Thanks
David