The National Weather Service Training Center in Kansas City offers resident courses and remote training primarily intended for National  Weather Service personnel.   Some of the remote training developed by the Center serves as introduction to Weather Service systems, and some  provides training in various fundamentals.  Currently, lessons in the  form of computer based instruction (CBI) are freely available for  downloading off the Internet by accessing the Center's Web Home Page.   Examples of system discussions delivered via CBI include lessons on  the weather sensing instrument groups that reside at airports all over  the country (ASOS groups), and an introduction to the newly deployed  Console Replacement System, CRS, used by operators of NOAA Weather  Radio.  CRS generates automated weather reports delivered in  synthesized voice. A CBI lesson demonstrates the coding of  meteorological data into a standard format used for communicating data  both to the national center that generates weather model products and  into area communication networks.  Indeed working with weather data  and products is increasingly a matter of utilizing rapid data  communication networks and techniques.  The Center offers a series of  CBI modules providing background knowledge of modern data  communications that cover various aspects ranging from fundamentals of  digital transmission to discussions of networking protocols, most  drawing on examples of the use of communications by the National  Weather Service.  There are CBI lessons on the design and theory of  operation of the time-honored F420 wind speed and direction systems  currently in use in the Alaskan and Pacific regions of the National  Weather Service and at a number of FAA sites.  The presentation discusses and demonstrates lessons.