I ended up installing quite an eleaborate setup to allow the station to be properly sited as well as mow around it and being able to raise everything to keep it above the snow.
Lew
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Since the Honeywell unit has a wireless transmitter for each sensor, it lends itself to having the various sensors in their most optimum location, typically in different places. I found that the temp sensor worked fine about 30 feet away but failed when I put it into a Sorenson Screen about 100' away.
I moved my mast location and then built my PVC "monster" to accomplish several things.
1. allows me to mount the rain bucket at the optimum 2' without a rain shadow.
2. allows me to mount the temp sensor at the optimum 5' away from anything plus I have the FARS unit for increased accuracy
3. Allows me to mount the anemometer up as high as I wish. I need to add an extension to my mast as it is plenty high, but not at 33' yet.
4. ALL of the items are mounted off of a common mast such that I am able to use the single wireless transmitter for all sensors.
5. The "monster" pivots around the mast such that I can swivel it 90 degrees for mowing.
6. The "monster" can be raised on the pole to various heights to keep the rain bucket above the snow. I can effective raise it as high as is needed as you can keep lossening tiewraps and keep shoving it higher and higher to keep it above the snowfall/drifts.
7. The solar sensor is mounted up with the anemometer to give me full horizon-to-horizon viewing.
I have asked many others if there are any other single pole designs that are more compliant and haven't heard of any. Until someone shows me something "better", I consider it the optimum single pole installation. As an aside, I can mount a "fence" around the rain bucket, and in fact, it can be mounted to the same arm such that the "fence" moves up with the bucket.
Here is a link to my CWOP page showing the pictures put up on FLICKR.
http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/C8122I have already been told by some naysayers that the PVC arrangement was not sturdy enough but they don't know how really strong it is. They warned I would get false rain readings if the "monster" wasn't sturdy enough. So far it has experienced gusts up to 46mph and didn't report any false readings. I don't think there would be any wind strong enough to pivot the rain bucket enough to shake it into a false reading.
Cheers!
Lew