Topic: Goldstar Stations

[Jáchym]

It's 4 am but I wouldn't fall asleep if I didn't check mine... It's there aaahhhhhh

[WheatonRon]

It...it...it's gone..... my Gold Star..... gone........what happened????? Please......

Mine too! I called the local hospital to alert them how distressed I am and to get the appropriate doctors on call!

My WU Goldstar designation is back! I will be able to sleep tonight! Now I need to alert my hospital that I won't be checking in! 😃

[PaulMy]

I have been very good the past 5 days


  Komoka Village IONTARIO226

About Goldstar Stations:
This is a high-quality weather station that has passed our quality control process for 5 consecutive days.


Enjoy,
Paul

[Eccomi09]

I remember I read that it depends on data availability from the last 5 days - which is not great quality check, but ok, then people posted here their brand new station got a gold star after less than 24 h

Mine was given a gold star after 3 days. I felt special.


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[Jáchym]

Your station is now worth 5 times its original value

[Phelina]

To add to the mystery of Gold Star QC, I just got our station (WS 1001) online for the first time yesterday, and we now have a Gold Star, despite the hover description saying '5 consecutive days of data'. So I think its the interval of data - have set ours to 1 minute refreshes.

[WheatonRon]

To add to the mystery of Gold Star QC, I just got our station (WS 1001) online for the first time yesterday, and we now have a Gold Star, despite the hover description saying '5 consecutive days of data'. So I think its the interval of data - have set ours to 1 minute refreshes.

No, nothing to do with uploading intervals. WU lives in its own world and to them, one day equals 5 days if they think so. The designation of the Goldstar by WU is nothing short of a joke with no offense to you or anybody else, myself included, that have such a "prestigious" award assigned to his or her PWS. A better and more reliable QC test is the one used by MesoWest at the University of Utah. My station, CW5020, is analyzed by MesoWest here:

http://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base.cgi?stn=C5020

To view your station change the C5020 at the end of this link to your CWOP station number and see the results.

[CW2274]

To add to the mystery of Gold Star QC, I just got our station (WS 1001) online for the first time yesterday, and we now have a Gold Star, despite the hover description saying '5 consecutive days of data'. So I think its the interval of data - have set ours to 1 minute refreshes.

To view your station change the C5020 at the end of this link to your CWOP station number and see the results.

Only if he/she has a Madis ID #.

[Phelina]

Thanks for the replies, and indeed I have no Madis ID so can't check - so have been watching airport station for correlation.

[WheatonRon]

Thanks for the replies, and indeed I have no Madis ID so can't check - so have been watching airport station for correlation.

Then join! Link below:

http://www.wxqa.com/SIGN-UP.html

[Phelina]

Then join! Link below:

http://www.wxqa.com/SIGN-UP.html

Will do, thank you - just as soon as figure out how to get the data reporting correctly from the PWS - right now just going straight to WU. And lost the Goldstar this morning for no apparent reason - but I did re-site the sensor array this afternoon given a very tall tree 100ft away causing a shadow in the early morning.

[WheatonRon]

Then join! Link below:

http://www.wxqa.com/SIGN-UP.html

Will do, thank you - just as soon as figure out how to get the data reporting correctly from the PWS - right now just going straight to WU. And lost the Goldstar this morning for no apparent reason - but I did re-site the sensor array this afternoon given a very tall tree 100ft away causing a shadow in the early morning.

Do not lose any sleep when your station loses it Goldstar status. It happens to mine and most other PWS owners for no apparent reason. What software are you using to send to WU?

[Phelina]

Do not lose any sleep when your station loses it Goldstar status. It happens to mine and most other PWS owners for no apparent reason. What software are you using to send to WU?

Indeed - it was odd to begin with

I'm just using the display console that shipped with the WS 1001 which has WiFi and transmits direct to WU.
Hence trying to learn from this forum what other options there are so I can participate in CWOPS etc.

[crawdad62]

Do not lose any sleep when your station loses it Goldstar status. It happens to mine and most other PWS owners for no apparent reason. What software are you using to send to WU?

Ha. No joke. I updated the firmware on my Ambient display and it lost barometric pressure reading for about 3 minutes and I lost my Goldstar status. My BloomSky was off line all weekend last week and retained the star the whole time.

[SLOweather]

Here you all go. Everyone gets a gold star...



https://icons.wxug.com/graphics/pws_signup/pws-goldstar-27x21.png

[Jáchym]

Now I get it.....

No-one here understands the algorithm behind assigning gold stars, and since this algorithm must therefore be very complicated, no wonder everything else on WU does not work, all developers are busy perfecting the gold star algorithm

[vreihen]

[vreihen]

[Jáchym]

LOL, exactly, who cares about stations showing offline, radars not working, radios not working, maps inaccurate, API not working... as long as we get the GS algorithm right, all users will surely be content

[Cutty Sark Sailor]

Here's My Gold Star:

[PaulMy]

Here you all go. Everyone gets a gold star...



https://icons.wxug.com/graphics/pws_signup/pws-goldstar-27x21.png

Fortunate I still have my WU Gold Star, but as a backup the Gold Award will do and can add 2016 https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/observations/details/20170205p4gzis8mere6pr99yyb96sc5co


to my collection http://sandaysoft.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=15358&hilit=wow+gold+award&start=15#p120296


Enjoy,
Paul

[vreihen]

It looks like WU found the incorrect NOT in their gold star algorithm.  I got mine back, and almost all of the PWS's around me have them as well..... 

[DanS]

To help build confidence in WU's Goldstar rating system, I just saw a PWS  down the road at Chiang Mai University Engineering Facility on the WU map and it had a goldstar rating when I checked.
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[Bashy]

I am forever losing goldy due to data flatline, although the UK Met O are quite forgiving as i still have gold on WOW

[Billyram]

My gold star comes and goes. My Madis rating is more important to me. As long as I'm seeing 2 thumbs up on everything I'm OK.
Billy