Good morning, Jim!
Ahh, so that's why you made the Rainwise suggestions in the various "What to buy" threads. Are you a distributor, vendor, or factory rep?
Hi Steve
In answering your question...none of the above. I'm just another weather geek like most everyone else here on the forum. I've been interested in weather for years. I used to plot daily highs/lows from the newspaper back in the 70's. Whoa!
About the mid-late 80's I started to see some interesting weather stations. The weather guy on D.C. TV (I lived in Dc 89-92) had a nice Heathkit in the studio. After returning a wired Radio Shack, I settled on the Rainwise. This was in 1999 when the wife and I made the trip to Bar Harbor, ME. The folks there were real nice, even got a tour of the factory.
Back then there weren't many of us on the web. The station I bought (WS-2000) came with the WV32. I've even had the opportunity to visit Dave Heider in Oregon. He has quite a setup as he writes software for many different stations.
Although I own a couple of other stations (Davis & Lacrosse), the Rainwise remains the Godfather. As I think back to my research of buying a station, what sold me on Rainwise was their LED displays. As much as I like the Davis and Lacrosse displays, they are fairly useless from across the room and when the lights go out, well it's 'lights out'.
I've notified Lonnie White that we now have a Rainwise area in the WXForum. Frankly, I was surprised when I joined here back in 2009 that Rainwise didn't have their own area. It just didn't seem right to find Rainwise topics buried inside the 'Others' folder.
I'm glad this area is open and will contribute in anyway I can. Glad to see the activity and lets keep it going.
Thanks to all!