More A/FD Fun: what is this about?

At 26N, Ocean City NJ:

AUTOMATED WX ADVISORY. ACTVT BY XMITTING "DIGI BRAVO" ON CTAF.

Do I have to say the magic words to get weather? Will transmitting "Open
Sesame" over CTAF open the gate? Haven't seen this before...

Do I have to say the magic words to get weather? Will transmitting "Open
Sesame" over CTAF open the gate? Haven't seen this before...


Apparently so. The company that makes these things is called DigiWx.

http://www.digiwx.com/

From google, it appears as if the voice recognition does not work all that
well.

- Ray

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:21:49 -0700, "Ray" wrote in
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http://www.digiwx.com/

From google, it appears as if the voice recognition does not work all that
well.

Hey. What do you want for $1,995.00, something that actually does
speaker independent voice recognition over an aviation radio link?
:-)

Gees.... McWeather that you can talk to!
Hold the frys with that and can I have my Coke in a sippy cup, we hit some
turbulence on the way in.
Jim

"Brad Zeigler" wrote in message
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At 26N, Ocean City NJ:

AUTOMATED WX ADVISORY. ACTVT BY XMITTING "DIGI BRAVO" ON CTAF.

Do I have to say the magic words to get weather? Will transmitting "Open
Sesame" over CTAF open the gate? Haven't seen this before...