While looking at weather related stuff on ebay, I saw a display and electronics box for AWS that I'd seen in the remote past.
It looks a lot like a Texas Weather Intruments display, with solar and a few other LED sections added, housed in a light oak colored frame, and in this case (different from other display-only ebay listings I've seen some years ago) had an electronics box associated with it. No sensor package seemed to have survived this one's life.
I was curious as to the history of this device. Was it a private company? I recall that it may have been part of a project to have installed and monitored by students in schools. With the modem connector it seems to be pre-internet, and designed to talk back to some central location to report, but how often and was that information available for viewing by other participants?
How widespread was it at the culmination? How many years did the project last? Did the organizers go under and these stations suddenly become boat anchors? Was it a Texas Weather hardware device, and what did the external sensors look like and were they very accurate?
I'm curious as to whether any of the members of this forum were participants and have any comments from real experience?
Dale