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Old 03-11-2009, 18:34   #22
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In such cases, the NWS (Washington) FTP Mail Service could well be useful. For full details go to the FTP link page on Martin Stubbs' site.Briefly, you simply send a message in a strict format, copied from Martin's page. Within minutes the reply comes back as an email. This is a free service and the only costs will be for the email links. Charts can also be obtained in the same manner. These come in TIFF format; files are likely to be some 70 kB and to receive them might be expensive, but useful on occasions when other communications have failed.
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Thank you for the information.
I will have a go at it and report.
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