After some study on the wxforum.net, and inspired by the now-retired weather station at contoocook.org, I made my first cautious weather station purchase on April 7th, 2021. I ordered an Ecowitt radio-to web gateway GW1000 and a WH31 Temperature and Humidity sensor.
My caution came from notes I had seen on the sometimes difficult task of getting the gateway to communicate with the home router, as it only communicated on the 2.4 MHz band. Worse, for that initial connection, you needed to use a phone app to connect to the gateway and supply it with credentials to connect to the network. What could go wrong? Well, lots, but it didn’t, at least for me. My concerns were unwarranted, as the connection went smoothly, and a new hobby was launched.