Users can text the weather station using a mobile phone and receive weather data in return. Alternatively, the data can be viewed on a website, also designed by the students, where wind speed, wind direction and temperature are displayed in graphical format.
 
Nial Mackinlay, speaking for the estate, said that he was delighted with the bespoke weather station.  ''We were very pleased to be able to assist the students with this work which contributes to their design module by identifying an appropriate bit of hill ground to site the station and I would congratulate the students and staff on their work. 
 
“The station will undoubtedly assist in certain aspects of land management by providing access to real time weather data from a location where the weather can be somewhat different to that experienced on the lower ground.''
 
The gamekeepers can log on to the website in the morning and use the wind speed and direction information to plan their day's stalking or indeed for undertaking moorburn. 
 
This year’s new team of students plan to add a video camera and data logging facility to the weather station meaning that clients from all over the world can log on to check out the stunning scenery.  The data logging facility will enable the team to look back on historic weather data, which will be used to aid year round management of the Estate. 
 
Course tutor Mary-Ann MacKinnon said: “One of the great benefits of this project was that the students were able to work together as a professional team, putting into practice the design techniques that they have been taught such as capturing customer requirements to translate into a technical design specification.   They then each took a different role in developing the mobile communications, the computer programme to interpret the data, the database and website.”
 
Estate Gamekeeper, Bob Pirie, who assisted with the on-site construction, said: "It was great to be involved in this project and to see the result of all the students' hard work. They were totally amazed by the scenery as well!"

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But Alma flies no more

Back in July 2007, a GPS radio transmitter was fitted on an eagle chick at Glenfeshie Estate in the Cairngorms National Park as part of a conservation project to try to examine the cultural behaviour of eagles and to research the home-range use of the Cairngorms and surrounding mountains by a young eagle bred in the area.

Roy Dennis, whose career working with birds has taken him from Fair Isle to Spain was following the young eagle using (GPS) and a radio transmitter, which he attached to her back. The diaries of her truly amazing wanderings among the hills and glens around the north of Scotland for two years, can be read on his web . But in July 2009  Alma took the despicable lure of poisoned meat, doubtless intended for 'vermin' - the fast vanishing wild cat perhaps?

A Tayside Police statement said: ''The golden eagle was part of a project being undertaken by Scottish Natural Heritage. The bird was being continuously tracked and when her movements came to an abrupt stop at the beginning of July, suspicions were raised that she had died." 

Outrageously, she had been poisoned.
Roseanna Cunningham, the Scottish environment minister, commented on being truly appalled that "yet another golden eagle has been illegally killed in Scotland - the second this summer... Poisoning is simply inexcusable.. the loss of this magnificent bird is a real blow to Scotland, particularly as we are renowned world-wide for our incredible wildlife."

Alma's last winter was spent in the Ladder Hills between Aberdeenshire and Moray With little sun, solar batttery charge dropped signals but a local commentedL "Alma is picking the hills with the best numbers of mountain hares, especially Carn Liath, Cairn Sawvie and Moss Hill."

At least, hopefully, no one will be wanting to poison a weather station.