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Old 14th Mar 2023, 18:24
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Any suggestions / recommendations for a self-contained 4G day/night weather cam for ad-hoc UK HLS use?
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Old 15th Mar 2023, 04:01
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FAA has the best system....

https://weathercams.faa.gov/map/-163...93597,65.51079
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https://www.panomax.com/en.html
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These are amazing but bloody expensive…
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Any suggestions / recommendations for a self-contained 4G day/night weather cam for ad-hoc UK HLS use?
I've got one by Reolink that would probably fit the bill. They do some super-wide angle ones, and the app is pretty decent to get footage on your phone. They can also easily toggle off the IR illuminator, which is going to be useful if you want to see conditions at night. They do some with self-contained solar and WiFi, which is pretty nice for installation in a random place.

Also worth making sure you install it with nothing close-by in it's FOV so the gain at night is sensible.

available from Amazon btw
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<Edit to add - get a WiFi one and a 4g hotspot, it'll give you a much wider choice - but the Reolink duo 4g is the one I was thinking of, though it requires power>
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Old 15th Mar 2023, 12:37
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This is another great one that we use. Great in the night!!! Scroll back on the time line to see what I mean.
https://www.foto-webcam.eu/

The great thing about https://www.panomax.com/en.html is that it is 360°...
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Old 15th Mar 2023, 13:14
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Thanks for input
I note that the Reolink has a 4G/Solar option - could be just the ticket. Rather than have them operating 24/7 I was hoping to find cameras you could activate by text/call so as not to drain the battery on a dull day
Thanks again
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Old 15th Mar 2023, 13:57
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I just looked at the FAA system provided by Gordy....looked at some of. my old haunts from Alaska days.

Technology is amazing these days but I wonder if we would have gotten anything done had we had access to all this new stuff.

In those days you just stuck your nose into it and went.

My favorite place was Sand Point in the out towards Cold Bay on the Aleutian Peninsula where we were based on Unga Island across the Sound to the west of the airstrip at Sand Point.

I used to utilize the stepping stone method to cross the Sound....as there was a very small island about halfway across....if I could see that I would head on over assuming the Sea Gulls would fly away as I approached the shoreline.

If they would not fly....it was back over the hill to the cook tent for coffee.

Today, with a Sat Link for internet access and the FAA system of today I could call up the weather along the route from Unga Island across the peninsula to the Bering Sea side then along that shore to King Salmon and onto Anchorage via the Pass and across Cook Inlet and know what I was getting into beforehand.

Progress in aviation technology is amazing if you use it properly.

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Old 15th Mar 2023, 15:57
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I just looked at the FAA system provided by Gordy....

Progress in aviation technology is amazing if you use it properly.
They are slowly installing them in Hawaii now.... I could have used the ones on Kauai back in the day....same as you, we would just stick our nose out and hope for the best:

https://weathercams.faa.gov/map/-160....50998,22.5624
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Old 15th Mar 2023, 16:06
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I once worked for a company where the chief pilot (ex Army Air Corps) point blank refused to have any sort of weather station installed, despite the rest of us asking on a number of occasions.

He said that he didn’t want pilots knowing that the weather at the company HQ was below limits, or they would have a reason to cancel flights.

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