On Sep 27, 11:06 pm, wrote:
On Aug 28, 11:30 am, "karl gruber" wrote:
XMweather already shows most of Canada's weather as it is broadcast now. It
has ALL the METARs and most of the country shows up on the NEXRAD radar.
Karl
"randall g" wrote in message
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I just bought the Garmin 496 and I want to sign up for the aviation
weather service. Unfortunately I live in Canada. When I called to
subscribe they said they couldn't sign me up and I should contactXM
Canada. So I called them, and they do not offer this service at all,
although they rep thought they would someday.
I guess what I need to do is to provide a US address in order to
subscribe toXMUSA. I suppose I could make one up, or hire a PO Box
somewhere in the US.
If you subscribe toXMWeather, do they actually send stuff to your
address? Is it important?
If you are a Canadian subscriber toXMWeather, how did you do it? Does
yourCanadian credit cardwork, or do you need to use a card drawn on a
US bank?
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Lots of aerial photographs of British Columbia at:
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The Canadian subsidiary of XM is selling the music/audio element but
still just making promises about XM weather "RSN" (real soon now.)
The US website for XM weather now offers a range of packages for
boating; the top one specifically includes "high resolution Canadian
NEXRAD" -- so XM has access ot the Canadian radar data; they just
haven't gotten organized to sell subscriptions to that data to
Canadians.
The US XM site has online subscription forms; these only accept US
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How does the vendor know which bank a credit card is drawn from, and
why does he even care?
However, vendors use zip codes to match the credit card to the mailing
address, so using a friend's address in the U.S. is not going to work
unless that friend is also willing to lend you his credit card.