Chapter 3 The "File" Menu Selecting, Dividing, Adding A Weather Data File - La Crosse Technology WS-2510 Operating Instructions Manual

Weather data file:
Selecting, dividing, adding
Select
This function is for opening saved weather data files and for saving new files in
which the radio interface data will be saved. In this way you can, for example,
create a separate weather data file for each month, containing data that can be
represented at any time in graphical and tabular form.
When you start the program it will automatically save the data in a standard
"ws-pc.dat" file in the "PC weather station" program folder.
For effective observation of the weather, you should always create a new file
before commencing recording and, if necessary, re-initialise the radio interface
in order to overwrite accidentally recorded data.
After starting the program, the program always returns to the last opened file,
with the name of the file opened appearing at the top of the menu bar.
To open an existing file, select the desired .dat file from the standard program
folder entitled "PC weather station" and open it.
To create a new file, enter the desired file identifier, e.g. "KW 2", in the "File
name" field and click on "Open". In the dialogue box that then appears, answer
the question "...should the file be created?" by clicking on "Yes".
The empty program display field will then appear, and you can highlight the
desired sensor(s) via the "Display" -> "Sensor management" menu and display
them by using the display selector. Then, once the new file has been created,
the user will be asked which files are to be loaded from the radio interface.
If so far no data have been collected (this can be determined by the absence of
time entries in the "Display period" window), for example, because the file was
created in the middle of a sensor query interval, an empty sensor display win-
dow appears at first, showing the data automatically at the time of the next data
query (whether manual or automatic) where these new data are present in the
radio interface, after you have clicked in the sensor display window.
Split
After you have selected this function a window will appear, offering you the
possibility of subdividing the current file into two parts.
Here the time is entered at which the file should be subdivided as well as the file
names and paths of both partial files.
The first partial file includes the time from the beginning of the file until the time
of the division, while the second partial file contains the time from when the
division was made until the end of the file.
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