Hi! I've been reading and searching with interest and I can see that most of y'all are pretty danged serious about your weather stations. We're coming from the other side of things -- our little $40 wireless rain gauge bit the dust and I thought maybe we'd upgrade to something with some wind data. We have all the space in the world, and, from reading the guide on sensor placement, the best spot to put an integrated sensor mount would be about 250 feet, easily visible, from the kitchen windowsill, which is where we had the display from the rain gauge, and it was very convenient. I see a couple of manufacturers talking about a "maximum" of 100 meters -- 330 feet -- and LaCrosse makes a big deal out of their IT-915 technology, although I know many on here dislike LaCrosse rather a lot.
Is anything in the <$200 range going to reliably reach 250 feet? My concern with the Vantage Vue is that it is seriously over-budget when I add in mounting options, plus we could then get sucked into logging and reporting and we need another "interest" around here like we need another hole in our heads...
Thank you!
--Kristi, in Iowa, where only giddy optimists need a rain gauge these days...