Re: Alden update... (fwd)

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Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:25:59 -0700
From: Larry Riddle <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden, address@hidden
Subject: Re: Alden update...

A question relative to the Unisys DIFAX charts and the PNG format:

 > Is this the product format you get over the Ku-band?

The DIFAX maps we get from Unisys are PCX format.  The PNG format charts 
Dan Vietor is/was experimenting with may be the next phase of Unisys 
DIFAX.  He gave me some (as digital files) to look at.  They are sweet.

I get my Unisys DIFAX charts by ftp'ing to Unisys once an hour (via cron), 
24 times a day.  Not a very elegant system.  SIO gets no weather data via 
satellite anymore.  We were a Zephyr/Alden C-band customer at one time.  We 
went from there directly to the IDD.

Where we'll go after we stop doing business with Unisys, I don't know.

Larry



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