La Crosse Technology 308-805 manual Color Weather Station Features, Initial SET UP

308-805 Color Wireless

Atomic Weather Station

Introduction

The Wireless Color Atomic Weather Station offers radio-controlled time, weather forecast, indoor and outdoor temperature/humidity and heat index with dew point, on one easy to read display.

Forecast Icons Time Alarm Icon

Function

Buttons

Date display alternates with Heat Index and Dew Point display

WWVB Reception

Low Battery Temperature/humidity (indoor or outdoor)

COLOR WEATHER STATION:

FEATURES:

•Color animated forecast from changing barometric pressure: sunny, partly sunny, cloudy, rainy and stormy

•AUTO or MANUAL option toggles IN / OUT data

•IN / OUT temperature (°F / °C) and humidity (%RH)

•MIN / MAX temperature readings.

•ATOMIC time and date (auto sets)

•12/24-hour time with snooze alarm and alarm icon

•Calendar display: month, day, date

•Heat index and dew point

•Light up display with press of button using battery adapter OR continuous light using AC adapter with ON /OFF option

•Low battery icon for weather station and sensor

•Sits on desktop or tabletop

•Transmits outdoor temperature and humidity

•Over 200 FT. wireless transmission range

INITIAL SET UP:

Adapter on the main unit with batteries or a/c adapter and set the time zone & weather icon:

The Time Zone will flash EST. Press and release the UP or DOWN button to select the Time Zone. Press and release the SET button.

The Weather Forecast Icons will flash. Press and release the UP or DOWN button to select the forecast Icon that represents your current local weather. Press and release the SET button to confirm.

The Temperature area will flash as the display searches for a signal from the outdoor transmitter.

Insert fresh alkaline batteries into the transmitter, observing the correct polarity Press the TX button to send a signal after the display is powered up. Keep the transmitter 5-10 feet from the weather station.

Within 3 minutes the station will beep and the outdoor temperature should be displayed on the Weather station. If the outdoor temperature is not displayed after 3 minutes hold the SEARCH button on the main unit to search for outdoor sensor. Then press the TX button again on the sensor to send signal. If that doesn’t work, remove power from both units and start again from the beginning.

To ensure sufficient 434 MHz transmission, the outdoor transmitter should be placed a distance of no more than 200 feet (60 meters, open air) from the Color Weather station.

INSTALL BATTERIES OR A/C POWER ADAPTER INTO THE WEATHER STATION:

Function Buttons

A/C Adapter	Battery
access
	compartment

A/C power adapter:

Plug enclosed 6-volt a/c power adapter into a wall outlet, then into the weather station.

Batteries:

Remove battery: Slide tab to the left and pull out to remove battery cover.

Install three fresh AAA alkaline batteries according to the polarity markings.

Do Not Mix Old and New Batteries

Do Not Mix Alkaline, Standard, or Rechargeable Batteries

If the weather station does not display indoor temperature after 60 seconds, remove adapter and batteries, and wait for at least 60 seconds before powering up the weather station again.

INSTALL BATTERIES IN THE TRANSMITTER:

TX

C/F Selection



Remove screws and the battery

Button

Channel

cover from the back of the

Button

transmitter with a small screwdriver.



Insert two fresh AAA alkaline

batteries into the transmitter,

observing the correct polarity (see

Battery

Battery

marking inside battery

Compartment

Cover



compartment).

Keep transmitter 5-10 ft. from the

weather station.

FUNCTION BUTTONS

LIGHT/SNOOZE

TEMP. SEARCH

IN/OUT

HEAT/DEW MIN/MAX

ALARM

SET

RCC SEARCH

UP

C/F

DOWN

LIGHT ON/OFF

AUTO ROTATE

IN / OUT

Button

Press and Release Functions

Hold 3-5 seconds

Activates backlight when using

LIGHT/SNOOZE

only batteries.

Trigger snooze when time alarm

is sounding.

TEMP. SEARCH

Switch between indoor and

outdoor temperature/humidity

Search for remote sensor

IN/OUT

readings

HEAT/DEW

Shows Heat Index and Dew

Point

MIN / MAX

Shows MIN and MAX values

Resets MIN / MAX values

ALARM

View Alarm

Alarm set

SET

Confirm setting.

Enter program menu, set

time, date, forecast icon etc.

RCC SEARCH

Search for WWVB signal

Fast advance when setting

UP

1 step forward when setting

C/F

Select temperature in C/ F

Fast backward when setting

DOWN

1 step backward when setting

LIGHT ON/OFF

Turn On or Off Auto-switch

Turn On or Off continuous

AUTO ROTATE IN / OUT

between indoor/outdoor data.

backlight on a/c adapter

WWVB RADIO CONTROLLED TIME

The NIST radio station, WWVB, 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 atomic weather station. However, due to the nature of the Earth’s Ionosphere, reception is very limited during daylight hours. The atomic weather station will search for a signal every night when reception is best. The WWVB radio station derives its signal from the NIST atomic weather station in Boulder, Colorado. A team of atomic physicists continually measures every second of every day to an accuracy of ten billionths of a second a 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. This atomic weather station regulates the WWVB transmitter.

WWVB RECEPTION icon with full signal strength will appear on screen if the reception of atomic time is successful. The atomic weather station will have a daily synchronization at 02:03 and 03:03 everyday. Each reception cycle is minimum 2.5 minutes and maximum 10 minutes.

In normal mode, press the RCC button until the reception icon appears to enforce searching of radio-controlled clock signal. If this icon disappears afterwards, radio time signal is not available at the moment.

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