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From: jbrown@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Jordan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.misc,rec.aviation
Subject: Re: Weather data by 1200 baud modem?
Message-ID: <327@jato.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>
Date: 11 Oct 88 08:06:23 GMT
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Reply-To: jbrown@jato.UUCP (Jordan Brown)
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In article <1227@ndmath.UUCP> milo@ndmath.UUCP (Greg Corson) writes:
>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?

WeatherBank in Salt Lake City and Minneapolis has some of this.
They have ASCII-ized satellite pictures and some form of graphics
protocol for weather maps.  (I don't know if they can do sat pics
using their graphics stuff.)

SLC
801-973-3221 300/1200
801-977-9227 300/1200
801-977-9427 2400

Mlps
612-339-1685 300/1200
... ... .... 2400 by special arrangement

You can call and get all their online docs for free; I think you say "help"
to get started on them.

To actually get data, you have to pay them money, but it isn't much (in
my opinion)... $0.15/minute.  I've found that most weather requests take
me much less than a minute; my usual charge for a half-dozen FTs and SAs
is usually $0.07.  That's with me manually typing the request, which is
where most of the time is spent.