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Internet Powered, Satellite Assisted ForecastsWeather Direct by La Crosse Technology is the first satellite-assisted internet-powered weather station.
Weather Direct provides the most accurate forecast information available, customized to your exact location.
›All Weather Direct products Get Weather from The Weather Channel
La Crosse Technology and
The Weather Channel
bring a new dimension of weather appreciation and knowledge to the weather enthusiast.
Real-time weather conditions and trends combined with accurate-atomic time is a combination that's hard to beat.
›All The Weather Channel products How Does Wireless Weather Work? La Crosse Technology's wireless weather stations measure the outdoor temperature and humidity via a wireless remote sensor. This sensor is mounted outside and transmits temperature and humidity data to the indoor display unit with a 433 MHz signal. Depending on the unit, the wireless sensor range is from 80 feet to 330 feet. The best place to mount the sensor to measure outdoor temperature and humidity is underneath an overhang, out of direct sunlight and direct rainfall.
What Is Radio Controlled Time and How Does It Work? When you purchase an instrument with radio-controlled time, you never have to worry about setting the time again. The NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology--Time and Frequency Division) WWVB radio station is located in Ft. Collins, Colorado, and transmits the exact time signal continuously throughout the United States at 60 kHz. The signal can be received up to 2,000 miles away through the internal antenna in the clock or weather station. However, due to the nature of the earth's ionosphere, reception is very limited during daylight hours. The clock or weather station will search for a signal several times throughout the day. The WWVB radio station derives its signal from the NIST Atomic Clock in Boulder, Colorado. A team of atomic physicists continually measures every second, of every day, to an accuracy of 10 billionths of a second per day. These physicists have created an international standard, measuring a second as 9,192,631,770 vibrations of a Cesium-133 atom in a vacuum. The Story of La Crosse TechnologyFounded in 1985, La Crosse Technology is a multinational
company with a small-town philosophy--to provide the best customer experience
possible. Always an industry leader, La Crosse introduced the first
radio-controlled clocks to the U.S. market in 1991 and continues to be on the
cutting edge of new technology in America. Their consumer electronics products
include radio-controlled clocks and watches, wireless weather stations, and
power monitors. All La Crosse weather instruments, clocks, and watches are
calibrated daily to the atomic time standard of the National Institute of
Standards and Technology for to-the-second accuracy. Today La Crosse
Technology products are available for purchase at thousands of retail
establishments across North America. |
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