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TXT2Wind

The TXT2Wind service has quickly become the service of choice for veiwing real-time wind information while out and about.

Simply by txting one of the many codes to wind (9463) you will receive a wealth of wind plus other information such as temperature and tide information.

What is it?

The TXT 2 WIND service allows for anybody with an SMS (Short Message Service) capable mobile to instantly receive Wind information from our locations around the country.

TXT 2 WIND works with both the Telecom and Vodafone networks. This means that you can get real Wind information, any time, anywhere there is network coverage. To learn more about TXTing check out Telecom and Vodafone. If you are familiar with TXTing then read on...

Please note: You don't have to be a member of wind.co.nz to be able to use this service, all you need to do is send a short message to WIND (9463), requesting the information that you want, but simply including a few numbers or letters in that message.

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What information do I get?

SENSOR specific
This option gives you more detail about the specific location that you have requested. You will receive 3 hours of historic information, the current conditions and then 3 hours of forecasted information, all specifically calculated for that location. We also inlcude the current temperature and also the next tide i.e. low and high.

This is perfect information if you are intending on going to a favourite spot and need to know what the wind has done, is doing, and will do! Click here to find out how to TXT for a specific SENSOR.

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How much does it cost?

The price for receiving any of the options to your phone is just $1.50 including gst per message. All messages will be charged directly to your mobile account, you will not receive any bills from wind.co.nz.

NB: this charges will apply regardless of your personal TXT plans i.e. they will NOT be included in any FREE deal.

TXTing is a positive delivery service which means that you will only be charged once the message has been received by your phone.

If you need to check the status of your message or to see how many you have done, you can check online by entering your phone number into the box at the top left.

For the summer of 2009, we will be introducing the means to buy 10 messages for $10, Watch this space for more details.

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Instructions for a SENSOR location

Create a new message

The body of the message is where you request the specific SENSOR information that you want. We have tried to make this as easy as possible to remember by making the FIRST THREE LETTERS of the location name the actual letters/numbers to be entered:

For example: If you want CAStlepoint then enter CAS, or, if you want BEAn Rock then enter BEA.

There are a few exceptions to this rule, as not all of the locations could follow the naming convention. Make sure you have a look at the following list to ensure that you get the right information.

The current list of all our locations is:

Region	Sensor	Wind Code	Met Code
Northland
	Cape Reinga	rei	CRX
	Cape Brett	bret
	Puerua	pur	PEX
	Cape Colville	colv
	Whangarei	wra	WRA
Hauraki
	Mokohinau	mok	MUX
	Kaipara	kiap
	Whangaparoa	wha	WHX
	Whitianga	whi	WTA
	Auckland Airport	auc	AAA
Central
	Paeroa	pae	PAX
	Bay of Plenty	bayp
	Tauranga Airport	tau	TGA
	Hamilton	ham	HNA
	Raglan	ragl
	Hicks Bay	hic	HIX
	Whakatane	wka	WKA
	Port Taharoa	tah	TRX
	Rotorua	rot	ROA
	Taupo	tpo
	Gisborne	gis	GSA
	New Plymouth	ply	NPA
	Mahia	mhx
	Waiouru	wai	RUX
	Napier	nap	NRA
	Portland	port
	Wanganui	wan	WUA
Wellington
	Palmerston North	pal	PMA
	STEPHENS	step
	Farewell Spit	far	FSX
	ABEL	abel
	Paraparaumu Airport	par
	Plimmerton	pli
	Masterton	mas	MSX
	Brothers Islands	bro	BRX
	Petone	pet
	Castle Point	cas	CPX
	Wellington Airport	wel	WNA
	Castle Point	cast
	Ngawihi	nga	NWX
	Cook Strait	cook
	Cape Campbell	cam	CCX
Nelson
	Farewell Spit	far	FSX
	ABEL	abel
	Brothers Islands	bro	BRX
	Nelson	nel	NSA
	Cape Campbell	cam	CCX
	Westport	wes	WSA
	CONWAY	conw
	Kaikoura	kai	KIX
Canterbury
	GREY	grey
	Hokitika	hok	HKA
	Christchurch	chr	CHA
	Timaru	tim	TUA
	RANGITATA	rang
	Wanaka	wfa	WFA
Southland
	Oamaru	oam	OUA
	Queenstown	que	QNA
	Manapouri	moa	MOA
	MILFORD	milf
	Dunedin Airport	dun	DNA
	CHALMERS	chal
	Lumsden	lum	LUX
	Gore	gce
	Puysegur	pyx
	Nugget Point	ngx
	Invercargill	inv	NVA
	PUYSEGUR	puys
	FOVEAUX	fove
	SW Cape	six	SIX

Send the message to 9463
Now that you have the specific location entered into the message simply send that message to W-I-N-D, i.e. 9463. Within seconds, you will receive the SENSOR information on your mobile phone.
View the message from Wind.co.nz
The following is an example of what you will receive in your text message.

Wind @ 11:05 was NNE 4.9kn (9kph) gust 8kn
Temp 18.4 C
HW Wed 15:52 1.5
LW Wed 22:07 0.7

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Auckland Coast Guard Information

Members of the Auckland Coastguard get 50 free messages per year when they access their own locations from the Hauraki gulf. This service applies only to the FIVE sensors provided by the ACG, requests to any other location will incur the standard $1.50 including GST to your mobile telephone account. If ACG members access other locations on the TXT2WIND service they will incur the standard $1.50 cents per message.

When an ACG member sends a message to us, we do a real-time check to see if the phone number requesting the message belongs to a valid ACG member. If the phone number is not registered correctly, or if that person does not exist in the ACG database, they will incur the standard $1.50 including GST charge to their mobile telephone account.

Remember, anybody can send the code 'ACG' to WIND to get the latest Auckland Coastguard information, our network decides if you belong to the the ACG or not and then bills the end user accordingly.

For Coastguard members, please check with the Auckland Coastguard to make sure that your phone number is in their system. You can check their website at http://www.coastgaurd.org.nz for more details.

The weather information available from the Auckland Coastgaurd is:

Auckland Coastguard - ACG TIRI, TAMA, BEAN, CHAN MANU Plus short marine forecast Plus Highwater time and height

Actual example:

TIRI 38/34/231, TAMA 30/23/224, BEAN 36/30/235, CHAN 36/31/233, MANU 30/27/223, F/CAST SW 25/35 -> 20 THEN W 25/35 SWRS AKL HW 1510 2.8M

What it all means:

"location pk/av/dir, location pk/av/dir, location pk/av/dir, location pk/av/dir, location pk/av/dir, FORECAST SOUTHWEST 25 knots gusting 35 knots dropping to 20 knots THEN turning WEST 25 knots gusting 35 knots with Showers, HIGHWATER at 15:10 with a height of 2.8 metres"

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