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Windfinder - WindSMS (SMS surfweather) Howto

WindSMS - SMS surfweather: WindSMS (SMS kite & windsurf weather) provides two options to receive windreports (real time wind) and forecasts via SMS - CallbackSMS and WindAlarmSMS. Test WindSMS 3 X times for free:

Attention: At the moment there is official support for WindSMS only for Austrian, Swiss & German customers. If you live in a different country and you have tested WindSMS sucessfully you can subscribe to WindSMS as well. But there is no guarantee that it will always work!

Callback-SMS (Pull Service)

WindSMS
  • Call *31#069-5899761 + extension for surf region
  • Wait for the ring tone and hang up
  • Receive WindSMS

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Continent Country Region Extension wind reports Extension forecasts
Africa Cap Verde Cape Verde - 404 - 405
  Egypt Egypt - 400 - 401
  Mauritius Mauritius/Reunion - 408 - 409
  Morocco Morocco - 402 - 403
  South Africa Cape Town - 412 - 413
    Eastern Cape/Kwazulu-Natal - 414 - 415
    Langebaan - 410 - 411
  Tunisia Tunisia - 406 - 407
Asia Oman Oman - 286 - 287
  United Arab Emirates United Arab Emirates - 376 - 377
  Vietnam Vietnam - 380 - 381
Europe Austria Austria - 200 - 201
  Belgium Belgium - 176 - 177
  Croatia Croatia/Slovenia - 332 - 333
  Cyprus Cyprus - 344 - 345
  Denmark Danmark Kattegat - 160 - 161
    Danmark Nordsøen - 152 - 153
    Danmark Skagerrak - 156 - 157
    Danmark Østersøen - 164 - 165
  France Aquitaine - 184 - 185
    Basse-Normandie - 182 - 183
    Bretagne - 186 - 187
    Corse - 192 - 193
    Haute-Normandie - 196 - 197
    Languedoc-Roussillon - 188 - 189
    Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 180 - 181
    Pays de la Loire - 190 - 191
    Poitou-Charentes - 194 - 195
    Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur - 198 - 199
  Germany Baden-Württemberg - 148 - 149
    Bayern - 144 - 145
    Brandenburg & Berlin - 132 - 133
    Hessen - 140 - 141
    Mecklenburg - 120 - 121
    Niedersachsen & Hamburg - 116 - 117
    Nordrhein-Westfalen - 128 - 129
    Ostfriesland - 112 - 113
    Rheinland-Pfalz & Saarland - 142 - 143
    Sachsen - 136 - 137
    Sachsen-Anhalt - 134 - 135
    Schleswig-Holstein Nördl. Ostsee - 104 - 105
    Schleswig-Holstein Nordsee - 100 - 101
    Schleswig-Holstein Südl. Ostsee - 108 - 109
    Thüringen - 138 - 139
    Vorpommern - 124 - 125
  Greece Aegean Sea - 272 - 273
    Cyclades - 264 - 265
    Dodecanese - 268 - 269
    Kreta & Kithira - 276 - 277
    Mainland - 280 - 278
    Westcoast (Ionian Sea) - 260 - 261
  Hungary Hungary - 340 - 341
  Ireland Ireland - 324 - 325
  Island Island - iceland n/a
  Italy Calabria - 226 - 227
    Campania - 230 - 231
    Emilia-Romagna - 216 - 217
    Friuli-Venezia Giulia - 218 - 219
    Lazio - 210 - 211
    Liguria - 212 - 213
    Lombardia - 222 - 223
    Puglia - 232 - 233
    Sardinia - 224 - 225
    Sicilia - 228 - 229
    Toscana - 220 - 221
    Trentino-Alto Adige - 208 - 209
    Veneto - 214 - 215
  Malta Malta - 336 - 337
  Netherlands North-Netherlands - 168 - 169
    South-Netherlands - 172 - 173
  Poland Poland - 356 - 357
  Portugal Portugal - 256 - 257
  Spain Andalucía - 244 - 245
    Baleares - 236 - 237
    Canary Islands - 252 - 253
    Cataluña - 240 - 241
    País Vasco - 248 - 249
  Sweden Eastcoast - 348 - 349
    Swedish Lakes - 352 - 353
    West & Southcoast - 328 - 329
  Switzerland Bern - 202 - 203
    St. Gallen - 206 - 207
    Thurgau - 204 - 205
  Turkey Turkey - 284 - 285
  United Kingdom Channel Islands - 316 - 317
    East of England - 296 - 297
    North West England - 300 - 301
    Northern Ireland - 320 - 321
    Scotland - 312 - 313
    South East England - 292 - 293
    South West England - 288 - 289
    Wales - 304 - 305
    Yorkshire and the Humber - 308 - 309
North America Barbados Barbados - 432 - 433
  Canada Quebec - 448 - 449
  Dominican Republic Dominican Republic - 436 - 437
  Mexico Mexico East/Central - 444 - 445
  Netherlands Antilles Netherlands Antilles/Aruba - 440 - 441
  Saint Lucia Saint Lucia - 428 - 429
  USA Hawaii - 416 - 417
South America Brazil Ceará - 418 - 419
  Chile Chile - 420 - 421
  Venezuela Venezuela - 424 - 425
Attention: This List is incomplete. For all regions check region list.

Save the most important phone numbers on your cellphone, e.g. *31#069-5899761-100 for "Schleswig-Holstein Northsea". If you are not in Germany, dial *31#+49-69-5899761+ extension for surf region.

Using Callback-SMS you get one SMS each time you call. The call is always for free because you only send you Caller ID to the phone number you dial. *31# causes your phone number to be sent to the dialed phone number. You can leave out *31# if 'sending caller ID' is activated in your cellphone settings. +49 is the country code for Germany.

Wind alert-SMS (Push Service)

WindAlarm sends you an SMS automatically, when the wind reaches your preset conditions.

Set up your personal WindAlarm in the account configuration. You can set up windlimit and winddirection for max. 6 locations. Windfinder alerts you, as soon as the desired conditions have been reached. The data come directly from the weatherstations and is only a few minutes old when you are alerted.

You can switch your wind alert on and off anytime by calling *31#069-5899761-000 wait for the ring tone and hang up. You'll get an SMS showing the actual status On / Off. Switching wind alert status only works, if 'sending caller ID' is enabled in your cellphone.

This is what a Windreport-SMS (real time wind) looks like on your cellphone:

Wind-SMS

Format Windreport SMS
  1. Header: time of the measurement = 12:00 o'clock + windspeed unit (knots, Beaufort, m/s or km/h)
  2. Name of the spot: WMAKELSD = Westermarkelsdorf
  3. Actual windspeed and -direction: 22 knots from east
  4. windspeed & -direction of the previous reading:16 knots from east
  5. etc.

The readings from several locations are collected in one SMS. To read the whole report you need to scroll down on your cellphone display.

A Forecast-SMS looks like this:

Wind-SMS

Format Vorhersage SMS
  1. Header: Forecast Kopfangaben: Vorhersage für 14:00 und 20:00 o'clock + windspeed unit (knots, Beaufort, m/s or km/h)
  2. Name of the spot: HVIDSDE = Hvide Sande
  3. First forecast value 14 o'clock: 28 knots from northwest
  4. Second forecast value 20 o'clock: 25 knots from west
  5. etc.

If you call between 19 o'clock the day before and 13 o'clock the current day, you'll get a forecast for 14 o'clock current day and 20 o'clock current day. The SMS indicates: 14:00&20:00(order of appearance of the forecast values in the sms).

If you call between 13 o'clock and 19 o'clock the current day, you'll get a forecast for 20 o'clock current day and 14 o'clock the following day. The SMS indicates: 20:00&14:00(order of appearance of the forecast values in the sms).

Dial, wait for ring tone, hang up in order to use the following features:

Feature Callback number
Switch ON/OFF WindAlarm *31#069 5899761 000
Query credits *31#069 5899761 001
Query password (to log into your account) *31#069 5899761 002
Personalized Windreport *31#069 5899761 004
Personalized Forecast *31#069 5899761 005

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