Hello everyone, this is my first post, so here goes. I owned a cabled Davis Vantage Pro for about 18 years with essentially no issues. After a lightning strike took it out, I needed a new station. I've ordered a WS2000 to be delivered tomorrow. I am most nervous on the reception issues. The mounting location is on pole about 10 feet off the ground and 50 feet from the house. It is in a residential neighborhood with neighbor all around. I have a couple questions on console location:
1) Is it better to go on 2nd floor or first floor? 2nd floor is above the sensors, 1st floor is below.
2) I guess a window is best location, but will the windowsill be OK enough? Where in the console is the antenna?
3) I have window screens but they are non-metallic (at least non-magnetic). Has anyone seen an issue with window screens?
4) Is line of sight as important as width of site. Meaning if I can put a string between the console and the sensors, is that line of sight? Or is the angle (or pie slice) open to the sensors important?
Finally, I have some questions on the signal drops. I see there is just that indicator of how many good packets were sent, so I'm assuming there's no measure of percentage good packets received. Also, when a packet is dropped, is the data lost forever? Is it saved into the next packet? I had an issue like this on the old Davis system and had it converted to cable to get around the pesky reception issues. It would just lose the data forever, most annoyingly when it was raining hard!
Thanks for your time...
Jeremy