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- Path: sparky!uunet!omen!caf
- From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg)
- Subject: Re: Weather Satellite Receivre
- Organization: Omen Technology INC, Portland Rain Forest
- Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1993 10:10:45 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan01.101045.7728@omen.UUCP>
- References: <199301010416.AA19046@sunset.cse.nau.edu>
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- In article <199301010416.AA19046@sunset.cse.nau.edu> Bob Wier <rrw@SUNSET.CSE.NAU.EDU> writes:
- >Does anyone receive Weatherwise or the American Weather Observer? I'm
- >now seeing advertisements for a cheap digital weather satellite
- >reception system (re: Weatherwise Jan 93/back cover, AWO Dec 92 page 5).
- >
- > The company running the ads is Data Transmission Network Corporation
- >in Chicago. They mention a startup fee of $250, and quote a price of $1.31
- >a day. They include a free reception computer, monitor, and 32" Ku satellite
- >dish with cables and free shipping. The ads show some impressive color
- >graphics, such as small-scale radar composites, satellite photos, etc. It's
- >hard to tell who the products come from (they look like broadcast quality
- >graphics), but offhand I don't see any good raw DIFAX-like products like
- >LFM, NGM output etc.
- >
- > This seems to be a very attractive deal, but I'm wondering if anyone
- >might suspect a "catch" here... even at $250 and $40 a month, it looks almost
- >too good to be true. Could it be the absence of any raw data? Any comments
- >or observations?
-
- $250 sounds like a good price for a working satellite rx system.
- Charging $478/year for their service, they can afford to sell the
- rx system for $250. Frankly, I wouldn't worry about the $250 but
- would try to get a better deal on the $478/yr cost, not to mention
- a possibly dedicated computer to deal with whatever data drifts in...
- --
- Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf
- Author of YMODEM, ZMODEM, Professional-YAM, ZCOMM, and DSZ
- Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
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