Radio Fax from noaa

[Paul L]

Originally Posted by Maka

NOAA is a government agency.
Consider the source and lower your expectations.

Huh? You have a better source for weather -- that isn't based on the NOAA data?

[berferd]

Originally Posted by longjonsilver

Well, the saildocs worked fine, but i wanted to get the feed direct from noaa working as well and found that i was using rich text in my email program. i switched to plain text and this is what i received in return:

begin 600 PYEB86.TIF
M34T`*@``HG#_______]_LI.!DC^GI-D6>@/3FTRSH=,,CG,$=^Z\24,'/TY)
M/U](@CY^_#CGPX/LG'.<*VB<,(X+[D2=Y[>I,T.EW]CH#2)NP_9+O`U+DB3]
M/V/IEEVAM^6W/PB$'H;M[=_^?YWW+VT+(0GZY=^V)?BPC?]A^/]_XZ7M);TM


and so on down the page. Now what?

thanks again

jon

That is the uuencoded TIFF file you requested. You need an email client (e.g. Airmail) or some other program (e.g. uudecode) that understands uuencoding in order to recreate the TIFF file.

[belizesailor]

Originally Posted by Maka

NOAA is a government agency.
Consider the source and lower your expectations.

Originally Posted by Paul L

Huh? You have a better source for weather -- that isn't based on the NOAA data?

Agree, lame comment. NOAA provides very good and extensive services. Most other sources are just repackaged NOAA data.

The OP is having a comm's configuation issue. Nothing wrong with NOAA's FTP server, have used ot many times.