RCH@cup.portal.com (Ric C Helton) (05/21/89)
In digging around in old Antic mags, I found details for a WEFAX weather map receiver project... You receive the radio fax signal with a radio-modem, and view the weather maps on the screen or print them out. I have a couple of questions from people who built the interface... like what was your total cost (shortwave receiver, modem, parts, etc), what problems did you encounter receiving the fax signals, etc? Are there many things sent fax now? The article mentions AP photos and the like being sent on certain frequencies at various times.... Thanks for email or net replies! D __ Ric Helton RCH@cup.portal.com \/ PO Box 2133, Athens, GA 30612-0133
arg@netcom.UUCP (Greg Argendeli) (05/23/89)
**While reading USENET, I Discovered something written by RCH....** *I have a couple of questions from people who built the interface... like *what was your total cost (shortwave receiver, modem, parts, etc), *what problems did you encounter receiving the fax signals, etc? *Are there many things sent fax now? The article mentions AP photos *and the like being sent on certain frequencies at various times.... *Thanks for email or net replies! * __ Ric Helton RCH@cup.portal.com * \/ PO Box 2133, Athens, GA 30612-0133 RCH, If you can call Long-Distance, contact Mike Delaney on the Bay Area Atari Users Group BBS (408) 986-0215. He has built the interface (nice pictures too!). I have tried building it, but failed (lack of a PC-board probably caused problems.). Mike has a pc-board, and I'm sure he'd be willing to send you one. ***************************************************************************** *Greg Argendeli | Available in one of these fine flavors! * *Technical Resource Coordinator; | dlb!netcom!arg netcom!nusjarg!arg * *National University, San Jose, CA| nusjarg!nusjecs!arg nusdecs!nusjecs!arg * *My employeer knows not of what I speak, and has no relation to these words * *****************************************************************************
cfchiesa@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Christopher Chiesa) (05/25/89)
In article <1276@netcom.UUCP>, arg@netcom.UUCP (Greg Argendeli) writes: > *I have a couple of questions from people who built the interface... like > *what was your total cost (shortwave receiver, modem, parts, etc), > *what problems did you encounter receiving the fax signals, etc? > *Are there many things sent fax now? The article mentions AP photos > *and the like being sent on certain frequencies at various times.... > *Thanks for email or net replies! > * __ Ric Helton RCH@cup.portal.com > * \/ PO Box 2133, Athens, GA 30612-0133 I must have missed earlier postings on this subject: this sounds NEAT! Can someone summarize or digest the articles (I hope someone saved them) and E-mail them to me either here or at Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com ? Thanks in advance. (I've just gotten started hanging around with a ham enthusiast and we were just brainstorming this sort of thing the other night! :-) Chris Chiesa -- UUCP: <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!cfchiesa cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP