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|Type=-1  
|Type=-1  
|Station Type as set by the checked radio box in the Configuration Station screen
|Station Type as set by the checked radio box in the Station Configuration Screen Station Type block


*0=Vantage Pro
*0=Vantage Pro
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|Model="yourModel"  
|Model="yourModel"  
|Whatever you have entered for Station Model on the Station Configuration Screen Setting block.
|Whatever you have entered for Station Model on the Station Configuration Screen Settings block.
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|Port=0  
|Port=0  
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|Use10amInSummer=1  
|Use10amInSummer=1  
|*0 = Use 10am in summer not checked on Station Configuration Screen
|Daylight saving correction for 9am roll over
*0 = Use 10am in summer not checked on Station Configuration Screen
*1 = Use 10am in summer selected on Station Configuration Screen
*1 = Use 10am in summer selected on Station Configuration Screen
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|ConfirmClose=0  
|ConfirmClose=0  
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|Confirm you wish to close Cumulus application after telling it to close
*0 = Disabled, application will close immediately
*1 = Enabled, application will prompt for conifirmation that you wish to close it
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|CloseOnSuspend=1  
|CloseOnSuspend=1  
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|If this is selected, Cumulus will close if you suspend/standby/hibernate your computer.  You should not select 'Confirm shutdown' if you use this option.
*0 = Disabled, application will not close if you suspend/standby/hibernate your computer 
*1 = Enabled, application will close on suspend/standby/hibernate of your computer
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|RestartIfUnplugged=0  
|RestartIfUnplugged=0  
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|Cumulus will restart if it detects that a Fine Offset station is unplugged.
*0 = Disabled
*1 = Enabled
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|SyncDavisClock=0  
|SyncDavisClock=0  
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|When set, at start-up, Cumulus will set the Davis VP/VP2 clock to the same time as the PC
*0 = Disabled
*1 = Enabled
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|DataLogInterval=2  
|DataLogInterval=2  
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|StartDate=13/08/2009  
|StartDate=13/08/2009  
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|The date at which your records commenced.  By default this will set to the date of initial installation of the application.
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|WindComp=1  
|WindComp=1  
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|UseDataLogger=1  
|UseDataLogger=1  
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|If selected, at start-up, Cumulus will download data from the stations data logger (if it has one) to catch up from the point where Cumulus was last shut down.
*0 = Disabled
*1 = Enabled (Default)
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|UseCumulusForecast=0  
|UseCumulusForecast=0  
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|From the Station Configuration Screen Forecast block, if selected Cumulus will generate a simple weather forecast, if your station does not supply one, or as an alternative to the one supplied by your station.
*0 = Disabled (default)
*1 = Enabled
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|UseCumulusPresstrendstr=0  
|UseCumulusPresstrendstr=0  
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|Set in the Station Configuration Screen Settings block.  If selected Cumulus will generate the name for the current pressure trend, e.g. "Falling", "Rising quickly" etc, instead of the one supplied by your station. The names used are those in the UK Shipping Forecast. Note that some stations do not supply this anyway, so setting this has no effect (Cumulus always generates the names for those stations).
*0 = Disabled
*1 = Enabled
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|FCpressinMB=1  
|FCpressinMB=1  
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|FChighpress=1050  
|FChighpress=1050  
|High Pressure extreme limit as entered in the Station Configuration Forecast block.   Default is 950mbPressure extreme limit as entered in the Station Configuration Forecast block.  Default is 1050mb
|High Pressure extreme limit as entered in the Station Configuration Forecast block. Default is 1050mb
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|ForceVPBarUpdate=0  
|ForceVPBarUpdate=0  
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|Set this in the Station Configuration Screen Settings block. Select to force the Vantage Pro (and Pro2) barometer to update once a minute instead of the default 15 minutes. Note that you may not need this, more recent stations already update every minute
*0 = Disabled
*1 = Enabled
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|UseZeroBearing=0  
|UseZeroBearing=0  
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|Set this in the Station Configuration Screen Settings block.
*0 = Disabled, Cumulus displays the current bearing read from the station (i.e. the last direction the wind was blowing from before it became calm). Note that the average wind bearing will always display zero bearing if there has been no wind for the last 10 minutes, as the average bearing takes wind speed into account.
*1 = Enabled, Cumulus display a bearing of zero (and '---' for the compass point) when the wind is calm
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|VP2ConnectionType=0  
|VP2ConnectionType=0