ESSK Gävle/Gestrike Airport

Unofficial weather

 

This is a temporary webpage just to get started quickly with our weather webserver. It will be replaced by a new interface to the user in the future.

 

This solution is built on an Oregon WM918 weatherstation, Apache webserver and FreeWX which creates webpages from the weatherstation.

 

As You notice, this is a very simple website. There exist dreams of functions and design but also lack of time and knowledge. So rather simple the nothing at all.

 

ESSK Gävle/Gestrike Airport

Inofficiellt väder

 

Det här är en temporär websida bara för att snabbt komma igång med vår väder webserver. Den kommer att ersättas med ett nytt användargränssnitt i framtiden.

 

Denna lösning är byggt på en Oregon WM918 väderstation, Apache webserver och FREEWX som skapar websidor från väderstationen.

 

Som Ni noterar är denna hemsida enkel. Drömmar om funktioner och design finns men också saknad av tid och kunskap. Därför en enkel lösning istället för ingen över huvud taget.

 

 

NEW!

A webcam has been installed in cooperation with Gävle Kommun, the local government running the airport.

Webcamera 1 heading NNW from tower.

Webcamera 2 showing cloudheightlaser

 

Weather current in text/Rådande väder

Weather historical and extremes/Väder, historik och extremvärden

Weather 24h graph/Väder 24h graf 

 

Small page to view from your cell phone with WAP

www.essk-wx.com/freewx/weather5.html

This is NOT a WAP gateway, just a small size html file which your phone probably will be able to show.

 

Best regards / Med vänliga hälsningar,

Daniel Lundh

Lars-Inge Karlsson

 

administrator@essk-wx.com

Links

Oregon Manufactures the weatherstation used in this project.

Sagitta Reseller in Sweden for Oregon WM918 weatherstation.

Gävlebygdens FK Local flyingclub at the airport which contributes with bandwidth.

LFV Swedish official aviation weather information for flightplanning.

FreeWX Free software which communicates with the weatherstation and creates html-files.

IAIP - Official information from Swedish Civil Aviation Authority about ESSK Aeronautical Aviation Publication, ESSK pages in PDF-format.

 

Todo-list

Develop new user interface.

Connect to ESSK tower cloud height laser.

Connect to ESSK tower RVR.

Create WAP solution.

Get a couple of webcams.

And many, many more ideas including streaming audio from receivers.

Write documentation and take some pictures.

Buy lightning detection system.

Buy sun radiation sensor.

 

Comments

Use official weather information when flightplanning.

Gestrike Airport is also known as Gävle Airport or in locally common speech just Rörberg.

Anyone can do this! It’s fun and not really expensive.

 

Special thanks

Arne Andersson and Gävle Kommun who contributes with a webcam.

Gävlebygdens FK which lends us D-Link access points to get Internet connection to this server as well as bandwidth.

Björn Eriksson and Risto Melchior for helping us to build and mount hardware.

 

Disclaimer

Although we intend to deliver high quality data, we do not take any responsibility that presented data are accurate.

Please understand that this is not build with expensive high-end equipment for commercial use.

Always use official weather data when you are doing your flightplanning.

Tip: When using our data, check data publish time and compare with current time to avoid using old data.

 

Weather related links

Weatherunderground Global weathersite where we contributes with data.

Väderbitarna Swedish association for weather interested people.

findU amateur radio network SM3UDH Gathers weather and positioning data (APRS) globally from radio amateurs. This is Daniel’s page.

findU amateur radio network SM3HHI This is our friend Risto Melchior’s page in the same network.

 

Aviation related links (local)

GBFK Gävlebygdens Flygklubb.

VGFK Västra Gästrike Flygklubb.

VFK Valbo Flygklubb.

FreeWX web client

Download

With this client you can have a constant feed of weather data. Configure it with a new connection, name of your choice and URL= http://www.essk-wx.com/freewx

 

 

 

2007-May-13 Daniel Lundh

 

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