Best Long Range Wireless Weather Station?

75' Unless it is a metal building (house, garage or both) what you need is a Wi-Fi weather station. and even if it is you can bury a cat (Cat 5 or 6 cable that is) and hook up that way.

Sprink-Fitter wrote:

greende wrote:
We have a Davis as well (previously had a Lacrosse). Works well at over 100" for us.

At only 100 inches you can almost see it from your chair.

Stupid fingers......:W Should be 100 feet.

greende wrote:
We have a Davis as well (previously had a Lacrosse). Works well at over 100" for us.

At only 100 inches you can almost see it from your chair.

We have a Davis as well (previously had a Lacrosse). Works well at over 100" for us.

I have a (cheap) Oregon Scientific WMR200 wireless that I use to monitor weather in the backyard and temps in my RV barn, RV (when it's in the barn), as well as temps in the attic and greenhouse. The base unit has a crappy 6" antenna that couldn't receive very much that was outside the house. My solution was to find the frequency it runs on and build a small dipole antenna for it that is mounted on the outside of the house. I ran a an RP-SMA extension cable from the antenna to the base unit which I modified to accept the SMA connection. I now have a solid connection to all my remote sensors. The base unit has an option for uploading data via USB to a computer and Oregon Scientific provides PC software. Since I use Mac and UNIX systems I reverse engineered the protocol and wrote my own UNIX based SW that captures and records the data. Overall I'm pretty happy with the setup, although there are a number of things I'd like to do with the SW and the data that's on my long-term ToDo list.

yup. Davis Vantage vue has a 1000' range.

I second the Davis Vantage Vue. The sensor unit in my installation is 200 feet from the house atop the wood shed. The receiver is in the main house. it works perfectly. Not cheap but you get what you pay for. The LaCrosse units I have owned have been notoriously bug ridden and the humidity readings wildly inaccurate. Not so with the Davis unit. It is spot on.

Check wireless weather systems available at ambientweather.com These are high quality units with a range of 1000 ft. If you need a longer range you can buy a repeater. I have both the Vantage Pro (at home) and Vantage Vue for our trailer.

Dick

Depending on how serious you want to be about it, the Davis Vantage Vue will definitely do the job. I have two base stations in my house, the most distant 40' from the transmitter. Check the feature list at the link - it does just about everything. Definitely overkill if all you want is the temperature, but if you want a complete station, it is one of the best.

I have a neighbor that bought his own base station and set it up for my transmitter so he could receive the data from my weather station located 400' from his house.

Not cheap, at $400.00 list & around $300.00 at Amazon, but it uses spread spectrum transmission giving it a 1000' range. Mine has been running for over 8 years...

Doubt whether the range is the issue. It is more apt to be the sheeting on the garage. Mine has metal and it blocks the signal. I have problems with garage door opener as well The metal blocks the signal.
I am going to extend the garage door opener antenna via an insulator to the exterior of garage. Not sure if wrapping a small copper wire around the remote unit , extending out side would induce the signal sufficiently to increase the signal
I would look for a remote sensor that has an external antenna connection.
Another way is to mount the transmitter on the outside of the garage with the probe going inside.