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From: fgz@lakart.UUCP (Fred Genoese-Zerbi)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,rec.aviation
Subject: Re: Weather data by 1200 baud modem?
Message-ID: <282@lakart.UUCP>
Date: 11 Oct 88 16:55:27 GMT
References: <1227@ndmath.UUCP>
Organization: Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA
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From article <1227@ndmath.UUCP>, by milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson):
> Does anyone happen to know of a service where you can get weather data
> such as satelite pictures, weather maps...etc over the phone with a
> standard 300/1200/2400 baud modem?  I know some weather radars can be
> accessed for the price of a long distance phone call but their data
> format seems to be totally nonstandard and can't be received by a 
> normal computer modem.
> 


If you join Compuserve, they have a some similar service, although the
pictures are not that high resolution.  They can be downloaded if
you have software that understands their format.  I use a Macintosh
with Red Ryder.  The only problem is that I have not found a way to save
the pictures other than taking screen prints (this is not so bad, just
a little slow).

Good Luck.

Federico Genoese-Zerbi
{mirror, cfisun, xait}!lakart!fgz