When you're picking up a radio-facsimile transmission, you're picking it up from a ground-station that's transmitting a weather forecast product that's generate

When you're picking up a radio-facsimile transmission, you're picking it up from a ground-station that's transmitting a weather forecast product that's generated by the National Weather Service and intended for reception with consumer-level technology. What's described in the article is receiving raw imagery directly from the satellite; so it's not really the same thing.