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05-01-2003, 11:27 AM
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Help - weather radar site
First LL game tonight and expecting thunderstorms. Is there a web site that I can access that will show the radar in motion? Located in Western PA. I have tried weather.com and local TV station websites that have good radar maps on my PC, but when I access the same sites on 7135, can't get the actual maps to be visible. I have only software that came with the phone so far. Last time I tried to load the long specific web address for the map for my area code, I got a fatal error and had to soft reset.
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05-01-2003, 01:12 PM
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possible solution
email the webmaster at a tv station in your area that seems competent.
Ask them if they can do something like I did...
mobile.kxan.com
It's a bit of work, but well worth the effort... oh...and it's the future.
Shawn
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05-02-2003, 01:17 AM
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Join Date: 08-25-2003
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Shawn, that's cool. I'm checking my local news sites to see if they offer palm versions.
Otherwise, I use AvantGo and get Accuweather forcasts with radar. Either go to www.AccuWeather.com or www.AvantGo.com
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05-02-2003, 12:37 PM
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Glad to see it!
I am glad to see sites popping up like this...
It serves to increase the interest in mobile computing and drive the industry.
Thanks for the links...
Shawn
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05-03-2003, 08:06 AM
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Join Date: 04-17-2003
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re: Help - weather radar site - an alternative?
Thanks to Palmdale for the radar web pages. The one thing I don't like about them is
that there's a lot of other info on the page that makes them load slowly - I remember
back in the early days of the 6035 (say June, 2001), someone on the forum pointed us
to some NOAA weather sites that had very little other on the page than the radar map
itself. I have searched for "NOAA" on the 6035 forum, and it's not there (maybe the
articles aren't archived that far back).
As for the Intellicast web pages, they are pretty good, but I can't for the life of me
figure out their choice in cities. They don't have my city, Pittsburgh, but they
have Staunton, VA. However, Cleveland gives a pretty good view of my home area.
-Bill S.
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05-03-2003, 09:16 AM
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Some of the NWS sites have options for formatting which allow you to select a specific page within the site containing only the graphics you're looking for. (The KPIX site links to the San Francisco-area NWS text site.) I haven't tried going to other cities from there, but if you play around with it on your browser at home you should be able to track down what you need and then note the URL for your phone.
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05-03-2003, 09:43 AM
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Pilots use CBAW (Cheap Bastards Aviation Weather) palm application program for wireless palms. Thru this app they obtain Nexrad radar images (on the ground before they fly). Here is the Nexrad web site:
http://www.osf.noaa.gov/
And here you can read about CBAW:
http://www.aspenleaf.com/palm/radar.html
Just remember the FAA forbids the use of cellular phones on an airplane.
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05-03-2003, 01:37 PM
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Join Date: 08-28-2003
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Quote:
Originally posted by LonghairSteve
Pilots use CBAW (Cheap Bastards Aviation Weather) palm application program for wireless palms. Thru this app they obtain Nexrad radar images (on the ground before they fly). Here is the Nexrad web site:
http://www.osf.noaa.gov/
And here you can read about CBAW:
http://www.aspenleaf.com/palm/radar.html
Just remember the FAA forbids the use of cellular phones on an airplane.
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05-03-2003, 07:45 PM
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Cool, Thanks!!
I'm assuming, since these are all aviation sites, you're a pilot??
What do you fly??
Tom
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