Maybe openvista could eyeball some relative RSSI values (from the 2nd diagnostic screen) from VP2 vs Vue console.
Sorry, just saw this thread now.
Over in the other discussion on signal dropouts (
https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=33496.150) I had noted that the average RSSI on my VP2 console for the ISS was upper 50s and for the wind was mid 40s. Given that 60 is the theoretical maximum value, that would equate to above average to near perfect signal strength for both transmitters.
On the Vue the ISS reception averages upper -60s (dBm) to low 70s and the wind transmitter averages mid to upper -70s when its 10F or colder. So the Vue would seem to indicate the overall signal quality is actually worse (scale from 0 to -100 where 0 is the strongest signal), but still well within the range of connectivity.
A complicating factor is that when it's really cold, and the VP2 console disconnects from, for example, the ISS transmitter (the closest, strongest signal), often it won't reconnect unless you manually throw the VP2 console into setup mode (or, according to ValentineWeather, use WeatherLink to reset). This is despite the fact that the console attempts to reconnect automatically every 15 minutes. Even stranger is that if you let the outage go long enough (several hours) eventually the console will reconnect. Yet, I've always been able to get it to reconnect immediately if I place it into setup mode.
One would assume that the wind transmitter would be subject to the longest outages since it's the furthest transmitter and measures weaker in both consoles. However, while its outages tend to be more frequent, they typically don't last nearly as long (minutes) as the ISS outages (hours).
Also, I've never lost both transmitters' signals simultaneously. If this problem is the result of poor signal strength in cold weather, why would one transmitter always stay connected regardless?
So, it would seem that the VP2 console outages aren't simply due to signal sensitivity. There would seem to be some firmware issues in play too.