Tuesday, Mar 21, 2006 at 15:27
Hello Mad Dog
Absolutely correct.
Mad Dog you seem to know everything about HF weather connection.
What about if you help me to set it up properly.
Have you listen to the voice or have you downloaded the weather fax?
By the way Mad Dog which HF receiver have you got?
1) I have listen twice to the voice from
Charleville or
Perth (depending on the propagation).
Do you know where to get the GPS map they are talking about during the transmission?
This voice is not intended for a 4WD situation but for a ship of good size with proper positioning maps.
and experienced radio operator + proper equipment design for this transmission.
The robot voice is mono-ton and very difficult to understand.
After 3 minutes the voice becomes very boring and I had to switch off because the GPS position + other
codes mean nothing .
The robot voice does not tell you there the cyclone or low is and when it is coming but gives GPS position for hours with codes.
http://www.bom.gov.au/marine/marine_weather_radio.shtml
Unless you are an experienced navy or merchant radio operator ( which is designed to do) very little chance
to understand what's going on.
Please send me some information if you have any about the codes, the GPS maps and the equipment needed to listen to it?
I can see you know what you are talking about.
Daytime (7am-6pm) 4426 and 16546 Night-time (6pm-7am) 2201 and 6507 Anytime 8176 and 12365
Which frequency do you usually pick up?
2) You mentioned the weather fax
What FREE decoding software do you recommend?
I have one decoding software from Germany which is unstable after 2 minutes.
Mad Dog, which FREE decoding software have you got for
Charleville or
Perth Weather Fax?
Can you give me the URL?
Did you managed to get the name of a free software from BOM
Charleville?
BOM never replied about FREE software because the software they recommend is about AUS $2000
plus a special computer which is not a laptop, which is about AUS$1500..
Mad Dog let me know if you find some info about a free software to decode the signal?
The other problem is to be able to have the weather fax downloading for 24 hours.
Because the transmission are supposed to me on time but they are not due to problem with the server which sometimes crashes.
Out of the 24 or more weather map produced every day only 2 are of value.
What is your trick to get the maps?
http://www.bom.gov.au/marine/radio_fax.shtml
Which map do you use to guess the weather?
How do you understand the charts? and which chart do you usually read?
Have you spoken to BOM about that?
I have emailed but without there software + equipment what they're talking about makes no sense.
If you can pass me any infos it will be great.
As you know there is a map every 15 minutes for entire south pacific, which one do you choose and how do you
interpret the chart?
The problem is to have the weather fax connected 24 hours at the time.
I connected my second battery onto it and after 24 hours my battery went below 10 volts.
My laptop uses with the transformer only 80 watts per hour.
Plus the HF receiver connected to it, I am using 120 watts per hour.
Mad Dog let me know how you set yourself up with all this and if you managed to get some realistic answers from BOM weather fax?
BlueSky
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