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Brad Zeigler
June 23rd 05, 05:18 PM
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...

Ray
June 23rd 05, 06:21 PM
>
> 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

Larry Dighera
June 23rd 05, 06:44 PM
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 10:21:49 -0700, "Ray" > wrote in
>::

>
>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?
:-)

Jim Burns
June 24th 05, 01:30 AM
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
...
> 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...
>
>

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