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Date:     Fri, 15 May 87 21:07 ADT
From:     <FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET>
Subject:  Fax and so forth for ST
To:       info-atari16@score.stanford.edu
X-Original-To:  "info-atari16@score.stanford.edu", FXDDR

>From: labrea!Lindy!kevin@decwrl.dec.com  (Kevin Burnett)
>Subject: 'wefax' interface for Atari
>I'm interested in finding out about the Weather FAX interface and program
>for the ST that appeared in Antic sometime last year.  Now that I've got
>the appropriate receiver, I'd like to try this thing out, but I don't have
>the issue of Antic it was in, nor do I remember which one it was.
>   Could someone fill me in?
The Weather FAX issue was the September 1986 issue of ANTIC.
The ANTIC WEFAX decoder only does black and white.  It would be great if
a more sophisticated circuit were used to give, say, 256 grey levels.
Feed in the data through the bidirectional printer port maybe.  Then
software could render it into hi-med-lo resolution or AIM format.  That
would let us use AIM for what it was made for...touching up noisy images.
Oh well, maybe some day.
>Also, I'd be interested in knowing if there's an RTTY/CW interface, like
>the ones available for the C64 or the Atari 400/800.
I haven't seen one specifically for the ST.  However, I've been using the
AEA PK-232 with the ST...I just unplug the cable from my modem and plug it
into the PK-232.  Of course that is a full-blown packet TNC plus RTTY and
CW.  The new upgrade also handles WEFAX...unfortunately my upgrade hasn't
arrived yet so I can't comment on how that part of it works.
Incidentally there is a group called the "Atari Microcomputer Network"
(mostly 8 bitters, some STs) that turns up every Sunday at 1600 UT on
14.325 MHz (theoretically).  They put out a publication called "Ad Astra"
(editor is Gil Frederick, VE4AG, 130 Maureen Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba,
R3K 1M2 -- US $10/year).
Don Rice, FXDDR@ALASKA.BITNET