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Old 14th Mar 2018, 23:37
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Squawk7700
 
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Weather/Web Cameras

Greetings.

As many of you are aware, webcams for the weather are a great idea. There's lots of places offering services to host them and it's all a little complex to be honest. AirServices have done a great job with help from Dick Smith, however they can be a little clumsy to access when you're up flying and there won't be enough resources to keep rolling them out to the smaller airfields.

So I've gone and made it very simple.

IF you have WIFI at your airport or off-airport location such as home or workplace, go to ebay and buy this camera, power it up and mount it, either outside or pointing out a window:

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/22267244....N41.S1.R1.TR2

I will send you basic instructions on how to set it up to upload photos to a website that I have arranged for unlimited photo hosting.

You will then be able to access it such as via a link like this one:

http://webcamstorageaus.com/ytdn/showimage.php

If it's located at your airport, then we can have it added quickly and easily to OZRUNWAYS! The more cameras the better as far as most of us are concerned.


If you DON'T have WIFI at your airport, you can use a 4G camera instead, but it will cost more (there are others, this is just an example):

https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/HD-1080P...FNNfqwX4y1vqrQ

You'll need to add either a $100 p/a SIM card from ALDI or a $150 one from Telstra.

It's not hard, I've done the hard work for you.

Let me know here or by PM if you need more info.

So far I've got 2 more coming online soon, one near Melbourne and one at the top end of Tassie.
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