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Ben, Both GEMPAK and McIDAS are available for research/educational use. You must register as an educational institution through the web portal at my.unidata.ucar.edu in order to download McIDAS. GEMPAK is available regardless. It would be helpful if you had a k12 email address in order to register as an educational user instead of an ISP. Just out of curiosity, where did you go for your undergrad degree? It would just be of general interest to track McIDAS use at colleges/universities. Steve Chiswell >From: address@hidden >Organization: UCAR/Unidata >Keywords: 200403170242.i2H2gCrV017654 > >-------------------------------1079491264 >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > >I currently teach science at Belvidere South Middle School, Belvidere, IL and >I am interested in the Mcidas and/or Gempak download for data representation. >Is this possible, since we are not a higher educational institution? I have a >meteorology degree and have much experience in my undergrad using Mcidas. > >Thank you for your time. > >Ben Commare >Belvidere South Middle School >Belvidere, IL 61008 > >-------------------------------1079491264 >Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > ><HTML><HEAD> ><META charset=3DUS-ASCII http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; cha= >rset=3DUS-ASCII"> ><META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2800.1400" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> ><BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= >f"> ><DIV>I currently teach science at Belvidere South Middle School, Belvidere,=20 > = >IL and I am interested in the Mcidas and/or Gempak download for data re= >presentation. Is this possible, since we are not a higher educational instit= >ution? I have a meteorology degree and have much experience in my undergrad=20 > = >using Mcidas.</DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV>Thank you for your time.</DIV> ><DIV> </DIV> ><DIV>Ben Commare</DIV> ><DIV>Belvidere South Middle School</DIV> ><DIV>Belvidere, IL 61008</DIV></BODY></HTML> > >-------------------------------1079491264-- > -- NOTE: All email exchanges with Unidata User Support are recorded in the Unidata inquiry tracking system and then made publically available through the web. If you do not want to have your interactions made available in this way, you must let us know in each email you send to us.