SAM's weather file downloads use the NSRDB API on the
NREL Developer Network
. This response about the required email parameter may indicate that the email address you used to register SAM is on the API's blacklist. This can happen if an email sent by the API is rejected (or bounces back), or if the owner of the email address reports an email from the system as spam.
To avoid this issue, be sure your email system does not reject messages from
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Once your email address is on the blacklist, you can solve the problem by registering SAM with a different email address and getting a new software key. You can also ask us to remove the email address from the NSRDB API blacklist, but this is a manual process, so may take some time.
Best regards,
Paul.