Due to my weather centre (Maplin job) going completely strupid recently, I decided to bin it.  Today I treated myself to a new centre.  This one is called the Oregon WMR88 from 'Nauticalia'.

I've set the thing up now, and all seems to be working ok.  Here is a screen shot of the software, which being basically a free version, does not have any online features.  If I go down that route again I'll do it via 'Cumulus' software, as used successfully with the last station.