Weather fax via HF radio

No need to go that hi tech - i just tune into the local ABC 603 and ceyanne gaurd on the morning show gives all the weather info you could need including min and max for all towns as well as current temps for all towns and then there is the cross to the BOM to talk to the duty forcaster (usually gary botahoven) who gives an extensive rundown of the weather what its doing and how it effects your part of the state

Thanks Mike,

I started looking into this a month ago and got sidetracked.

Must make up a lead for the NGT and have a play. I've been meaning to make the GPS lead for it too, but I've been a bit slack. The radio reminds me how slack I've been about 3 mins after I turn it on :o(

Dave

Hi Mike,

Sailors have been receiving weatherfax via HF frequencies for over 30 years.
I have grown up sailing international waters but our was an old machine that really was just like a fax that would spit out a paper copy of the current synoptic chart and it was up to the sailors to interpret the chart and make their own weather predictions. As you can imagine an accurate forecast is more critical at sea and ABC radio 603 is also not available.
I have not seen the new systems using a laptop but they sound interesting.
The only problem I see is that I would imagine that the weather fax system would still be geared toward marine applications and would probably be using marine HF frequencies so you would have to make sure that your radio had access to the right frequencies.

Cheers,
Brett