Received: from hpoclrf.sj.hp.com by opus.hpl.hp.com with SMTP (1.37.109.8/15.5+ECS 3.3+HPL1.1) id AA09298; Thu, 28 Apr 1994 07:35:01 -0700 Return-Path: <kirk@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> Received: by hpmsd3.sj.hp.com (1.37.109.8/15.5+IOS 3.22) id AA13863; Thu, 28 Apr 1994 07:41:11 -0700 Date: Thu, 28 Apr 1994 07:41:11 -0700 From: Kirk Lindstrom <kirk@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> Message-Id: <9404281441.AA13863@hpmsd3.sj.hp.com-DeleteThis> To: westes@usc.com-DeleteThis, wind_talk@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis Subject: Re: Re: Need a measuring site for Coyote and Third Avenue
> Why even hassle with the bother of setting up your own? These people are
> willing to spend $1000 bucks on professional equipment, and they have a
> employee in the Bay Area (Mike Godsey: 707-823-7988) who can tend to all of
> with 120 data points per hour (peak and average speeds read each minute).
> They give me the software to graph it, and they give me the same data for
> other Bay Area sites, including sensors that they already have running at
> Crissy and Sherman Island. I don't think we can match their effort cost
> efficiently, so why bother? I'm happy to just to find a small outfit like
> this that is able to make a business out of doing something that is going
> to save me a lot of wasted time.
>
> Thanks,
> Will Estes Internet: westes@usc.com-DeleteThis
Hmmmm, why bother? Get a big, light epoxy board or a IMCO board and a
big sail and just go up when 14 at the airport and sail. That is what
I do and don't get skunked very often and it is usually only when I
say "jeeze, takes an hour to get to CPt and it might come up and I
want to sail so I'll take a chance."
Also, 8 hrs of data isn't that useful since I'm usually more
interested in what it did at that time "yesterday" and what were the
conditions like pressure, clouds/fog, temp, wind direction and in the
Spring - High/Low locations. XWeather seems to work well enough. Buy
an HP workstation and we might be able to get it for ya. 8-)
Kirk out
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