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XM Weather throughout Canada
Hello,
Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? Happy Holidays, Dico |
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XM Weather throughout Canada
How far north can XM be reliably received from the air? Canada? Alaska?
(How for south also, for that matter...) --Dan Dico wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? Happy Holidays, Dico |
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XM Weather throughout Canada
I think the question is.. when will Canadian weather information be
broadcast over XM.. not "how far north" before we loose satelite coverage.. BT "Dan" wrote in message oups.com... How far north can XM be reliably received from the air? Canada? Alaska? (How for south also, for that matter...) --Dan Dico wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? Happy Holidays, Dico |
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XM Weather throughout Canada
One of the guys here has a 496 with XM and here on the east coast
(Prince Edward Island), there is no coverage.. once you get to Fredricton (New Brunswick) you'll start to pick up some of the data...then you'll have the data all the way to Toronto. So it is a bit helpful. But you don't get the TAFS and METARS. -dr Dan wrote: How far north can XM be reliably received from the air? Canada? Alaska? (How for south also, for that matter...) --Dan Dico wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? Happy Holidays, Dico |
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I have a 396 and live in Chatham Ontario. I've called XM several times
over the last year and I get the same answer that "Canadian weather is coming soon". However, I'll believe it when I see it. The good news is the radar covers Southern Ontario and I use the METAR's and TAF's from Detroit City as a proxy for Chatham. Buffalo or Rochester works for Toronto. It's certainly not ideal... Dico wrote: One of the guys here has a 496 with XM and here on the east coast (Prince Edward Island), there is no coverage.. once you get to Fredricton (New Brunswick) you'll start to pick up some of the data...then you'll have the data all the way to Toronto. So it is a bit helpful. But you don't get the TAFS and METARS. -dr Dan wrote: How far north can XM be reliably received from the air? Canada? Alaska? (How for south also, for that matter...) --Dan Dico wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? Happy Holidays, Dico |
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XM Weather throughout Canada
I have a 396 and live in Chatham Ontario. I've called XM several times
over the last year and I get the same answer that "Canadian weather is coming soon". However, I'll believe it when I see it. The good news is the radar covers Southern Ontario and I use the METAR's and TAF's from Detroit City as a proxy for Chatham. Buffalo or Rochester works for Toronto. It's certainly not ideal... Dico wrote: One of the guys here has a 496 with XM and here on the east coast (Prince Edward Island), there is no coverage.. once you get to Fredricton (New Brunswick) you'll start to pick up some of the data...then you'll have the data all the way to Toronto. So it is a bit helpful. But you don't get the TAFS and METARS. -dr Dan wrote: How far north can XM be reliably received from the air? Canada? Alaska? (How for south also, for that matter...) --Dan Dico wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? Happy Holidays, Dico |
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XM Weather throughout Canada
is this that the weather reports are not transmitted to XM for rebroadcast?
or that XM is not available in any format that far NE? BT "Dico" wrote in message ups.com... One of the guys here has a 496 with XM and here on the east coast (Prince Edward Island), there is no coverage.. once you get to Fredricton (New Brunswick) you'll start to pick up some of the data...then you'll have the data all the way to Toronto. So it is a bit helpful. But you don't get the TAFS and METARS. -dr Dan wrote: How far north can XM be reliably received from the air? Canada? Alaska? (How for south also, for that matter...) --Dan Dico wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? Happy Holidays, Dico |
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XM Weather throughout Canada
On trip up the coast in July this year, we lost the XM NEXRAD & Cloud cover
about 2/3 of the way from Bellingham to Ketchican. I don't think that there are many airports with ground weather reporting in Canada. OTOH the XM radio was recievable all the way into Anchorage at 12,000'. You can see where the clouds & nexrad coverage ends if you zoom out. Mark Manes N28409 "Dan" wrote in message oups.com... How far north can XM be reliably received from the air? Canada? Alaska? (How for south also, for that matter...) --Dan Dico wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? Happy Holidays, Dico |
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Dico wrote: Does anyone have any information when/if we're going to be able to get our 496 units to recieve Canadian weather information? I just flew KSLC to Calgary and back in the last three days. My 496 showed Metars for Lethbridge CYQL, but not Calgary. It seems that the XM feed comes from the US, but not from Canada. Also, when I called Canadian Flight Service to get a briefing to return to SLC, they would not give me any US Wx because of liability reasons. When I tried to call 800-992-7433 from the Calagary area, the number was blocked. I had to find a discrete phone number with area code to make a toll call to Great Falls FSS to get US WX. What a PITA! |
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