{"id":3808,"date":"2018-01-01T21:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T21:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/?p=3808"},"modified":"2026-03-12T19:29:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T19:29:51","slug":"who-needs-the-met-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/who-needs-the-met-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Who needs the Met office?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The reception of WEFAX has been around for many years, it may well surprise you it is still around today.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s interesting to download some of these maps, from a system that sounds a bit like your old fax machine or loading your favourite game into a BBC micro from the tape drive.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, that&#8217;s all very 1980s, and I guess also 2018 HNY.<\/p>\n<p>Want to give it a go? Read how to in <a href=\"http:\/\/m0taz.co.uk\/2018\/01\/receiving-hf-weather-fax\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3809\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/who-needs-the-met-office\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr.png\" data-orig-size=\"1809,1400\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr-1024x792.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3809\" src=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr-1024x792.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr-1024x792.png 1024w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr-300x232.png 300w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr-768x594.png 768w, https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/wefax_20180101_125807_14070000_nocorr.png 1809w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The reception of WEFAX has been around for many years, it may well surprise you it is still around today. It&#8217;s interesting to download some of these maps, from a system that sounds a bit like your old fax machine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/who-needs-the-met-office\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[221,220],"class_list":["post-3808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hf-fax","tag-wefax","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p22sia-Zq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3810,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3808\/revisions\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lefars.org.uk\/WPblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}