WeatherNet is a system designed to optimize the download of weather products via wireless connections. The product offers highly compressed text, images, charts, buoy data, radar, GRIB files, and many more formats. A total of over 5000 continuously updated weather products are available to the user on demand by the push of a button. The user simply drags the weather products he wishes to download into batch folders and then pushes the download button. WeatherNet immediately connects to the server via a wireless connection (sat phone, HF/Pactor Radio) and downloads the requested data. After the download WeatherNet can be configured to automatically display the new weather data with OCENS WeatherStation or SeaStation software or other viewers. WeatherNet was announced at the Miami boat show on February 23rd, 2003. Delivery began in April 2003

Special Features:

WeatherNet contains the most extensive collection of weather products for mariners in the world. There are over 5,000 products currently on line and growing every day. Weather categories include:

• Aviation
• Graphical Buoy Charts
• Buoy Text
• GRIB
• Ice
• Nexrad
• Ocean Charts
• Satellite Imagery
• Text
• Weather Charts (WeFax)

WeatherNet supports any wireless interface that supports a Windows Dial Up Interface. Supported devices include:

• Cellular phones
• Globalstar satellite phones
• Iridium
• Inmarsat M/F
• SSB/HF Pactor III
• Geosat Solutions
• Generic Internet Connection (Dial up, DSL, ISDN, Broadband)