Welcome to ParaTenki.com!
ParaTenki is about a paragliding weather. We install and monitor small weather stations on a neighbor mountains and translate live data to our pages for everyone to see. No more sitting at home and wondering what are the conditions on your favourite flying site — everything is just one click away.
Here's the map of Kyushu with currently installed stations.
Feb 16, 2009
Got this picture today. Obviously, Katsuragi station is totally frozen and could not move, however radio link works just fine.
Jan 17, 2009
Battery voltage graph is available now. The voltage does not change much, as you may see on the upper picture, therefore only the 4.5~5.0V part is shown.
Jan 16, 2009
Saruba-yama (Nagasaki) station is back online after extreme cold last week.
Dec 28, 2009
A small article about ParaTenki came out in 2010/Feb issue of "ParaWorld"
Dec 26, 2009
New station was installed at Katsuragi-yama (Nara).
Dec 26, 2009
New station was installed at Saruba-yama (Nagasaki) and will be connected to the internet probably next week.
Dec 14, 2009
Next (Feb, 2010) issue of "ParaWorld" will print a small essay about ParaTenki, on sale from 12/28.
Nov 14, 2009
Raizan station got internet connection, however the reliability is still to be improved.
Nov 08, 2009
New station is erected at Raizan and will be connected to the internet probably next week.
Oct 26, 2009
One more station was added to Yosimatsu suite, so here they are: Yatake-yama and Uono-yama. They share same receiver, installed at WindLove club house.
Oct 18, 2009
New station is installed at Yoshimatsu (Kagoshima), 6 hours of driving is quite tiresome.
Oct 12, 2009
Yesterday someone bumped to the anemometer on Kirikabu-yama and broke the anemometer blade. Today I went there for a quick repair.
Oct 01, 2009
Omura paragliding club has installed new pole at Kotohira-dake. Weather station is almost fully functional, however some improvements are still to be done.
Aug 05, 2009
Tried new tool. Made some graph from the recent realtime wind speed data.
Jul 29, 2009
Changed battery and radio module, now everything should work fine.
Jul 19, 2009
New station, improved and redesigned, was installed at Kankake-toge. Changes include ultra-low power transmitter (10mW) with the frequency according to the "special low power" regulations and reworked main board.
Jul 06, 2009
I've got ParaTenki logo designed and have ordered some t-shirts.
Jul 05, 2009
Finally all the problems are solved and the long-awaited installation on Mino is scheduled to happen at Kankake-toge on 19th of July. Internet connection availability is still undecided.
Jun 04, 2009
ATTN: DoCoMo users!
If you send e-mail to kirikabu@paratenki.com and did not get any reply, please, check your SPAM settings and allow to receive the e-mail from domain paratenki.com.
Jun 04, 2009
Autoresponder is installed on paratenki.com. If you send e-mail to kirikabu@paratenki.com, you'll get the weather data for the last hour. It works with keitai phones too, and saves money since mail-traffic is cheaper than web-traffic. No need to call Satsuma-ramen shop and ask about the weather anymore =)
May 31, 2009
More PCBs have arrived, and we have got working receiver with LCD display.
May 17, 2009
Kirikabu station got connected to the internet, and you may see the results. Some data may not be available early in the morning (before 6:00). Nobody flies in the dark, anyway.
May 13, 2009
New version of receiver with 7-segment LED panel is soldered, assembled and boxed.
May 8, 2009
Today I've got another batch of freshly made PCBs for weather station and for wind watch module. It's HAMMERT.. SOLDERTIME!! =)
May 2, 2009 – 8pm
Came back from the mountains. Despite nice weather, new station was installed on Kirikabu-yama and a little bit tested today. I hope it will be useful in tomorrow's local competition rounds.
Please, don't be scared by nasty-looking boxes. I've ordered some parts, but they were delayed so I had to improvise with carbon boxes to make a kind of enclosure and avoid dangling wires. Real thing is supposed to be much smaller and prettier. Still, it shows nice north-western wind of 1.8 m/s and temperature 24`C.
May 2, 2009 – 2am
Today is going to be a nice sunny day. The first day when this web-site is open (i'm writing this down so I don't forget =). Right now I'm writing this short introduction and in the morning I'm going to visit a friendly site in Oita-ken to deploy the first weather station. Still in development and maybe to be replaced soon, but we are already able to collect the data, and this will be our first test installation. I hope everything goes well tomorrow.
Apr 29, 2009
Actually we weren't open at that time, but it was the first day when we began the preparation for our first deployment. A very nice piece of pinewood was cut and prepared as the foundation. Here are some pictures:
And yeah, evening flying was magical. I've spent almost all day testing, so I took off around 5pm expecting a short sled ride, but somehow managed to fly about an hour to land back to the top around 6pm.