Specifications

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Chapter 12 - WS-1000 Weather Station Interface

Provide timely weather announcements on your repeater system. Connect a Peet Brothers

Ultimeter ® U-100, U-800 or U-2000 Weather Station or a Davis Weather Wizard III to

the serial port of your CAT-1000B and install the WS-1000 firmware.

Integrate temperature, wind speed, direction, high

and low temperature and rain fall rate into any of

the CAT-1000B voice messages. Program special

weather report messages or make the weather part

of your identifications, grandfather clock or tail

messages.

WS-1000 Weather Interface

The interface consists of a Program ROM V4.00,

Voice ROM V2.00, 4700ohm termination resistor and

a three-conductor cable terminated on one end with

a header plug.

CAT-1000B Setup

Replace the Program ROM (U25) and the Voice ROM (U26) with the WS-1000 firmware. Set

the CAT-1000B dipswitch #6 to "OFF" for the Peet Brothers and "ON" for the Davis

weather station. Select the following jumper settings:

JUMPER J5 PEET 2-3 DAVIS 1-2 JUMPER J7 PEET 1-2 DAVIS 2-3

Peet Brothers Interconnect

Purchase a four-conductor telephone cable. Hold the

modular connector with the latch down and the gold

contacts up. Check that the black wire is on the left

side of the modular connector. Cut the modular connector

off of the other end of the telephone cable. Strip the

cable and cut off the red and yellow wires. Strip the

green and black wires. Solder the 4700ohm resistor

between pins 3 and 14 of a 25 pin "D" female connector.

Connect the green wire to pin 3 and the black wire to pin

14. Plug the 25 pin "D" connector into J1 on the CAT-

1000B controller. See Figure 12-1.

To provide continuous weather information to the CAT-

1000B, the weather station must be in the DATA LOGGING

MODE. On the Keyboard Display unit: press and hold the

CLEAR and WIND SPEED keys for three seconds.

To test the interface, unlock the CAT-1000B and enter the

[*27] programming command. If the controller and the

weather station are communicating, the voice synthesizer

will say: "CONTROL OK." If a problem exists the voice

will say "ERROR NO DATA."

ULTIMETER 100

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Repeater Controller

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