Thank you all for the warm
welcome and the great help, especially from Steve M. Here's an update.
I have successfully converted and imported my year's worth of WeatherLink (Windows) data by passing it through LWC and on seamlessly into WeatherCat. I had thought I'd wait until the weekend when I'd have more time, but I did afterall have a new toy (WC) to play with so started tinkering last night. As a result, as of today I am a proud
owner now and am already happy I made the switch. If the ease with which the transition went is any indication, I'm going to love this software! Wunderground and CWOP integration was ridiculously simple and effective. From the time I opened the WL data in LWC until I had WC operational and uploading to Wunderground and CWOP was under an hour and that's only because I was plodding along being sure I had drivers in place, previous programs shut down, etc. before launching WC.
Enough gushing. I would like to ask another on topic question. This has to do with Wunderground update rates. I have rapid fire turned on and know I can update as frequently as every few seconds. My question is what's the point? Just because we can? At what point are we exceeding the granularity of weather change with updates of 1-5 seconds? The only thing that occurs that quickly is probably wind gusts, but even if you updated WU every 15 seconds, the averaging that would go on in that time shouldn't dampen the uploaded value that much would it? My reason for asking is that I wonder about how taxing uploading stacks of data every 5 seconds or so is in terms of slowing down performance of the host computer.
As a new comer, I realize this may have been discussed elsewhere. If so, just send me the link to the thread or web source and I'll educate myself. However, personal opinions are always welcome!
Steve