My station, KILPLAIN41, used an Ambient Weather WS-1401 for the last 2 years. Due to various occasional issues with the rain bucket sticking as well as my meteostick occasionally losing signal I decided to replace it with a Davis Vantage Vue station. The new station has been up for about 3 weeks and despite an issue for the first 4 days with the wind vane reading 180 degrees the wrong way (I assembled it wrong) the station has now been up 2 1/2 weeks reporting to WU every 60 seconds and with no issues. The data has been spot on, both with my old station, the surrounding (gold badge) stations, and local NOAA stations. Barometer, Temp, Dew Point, Rain all spot on. Wind direction is accurate but it reads low on speed due to where I mounted the station but ALL the local gold badge stations do also.
WU says gold badge is based on accuracy and being up 5 straight days... well I feel like my station has been very accurate, reporting every minute, and up 2 1/2+ weeks... any ideas what could be wrong? I don't care so much I "don't have the badge" as much as I would love to know what WU thinks is wrong?
Thanks!