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HF Weather FAX
— John Pumford-Green 22/10/22 08:25
I thought I'd have a look at some other HF signals and found that Fldigi will decode Weather FAX.
I found a big list of active FAX stations:
https://www.weather.gov/media/marine/rfax.pdf
and set up Fldigi and my Icom IC-R75.
Here's a sample image from NMF/Boston USA on 9110kHz at 2339UTC last night (21st Oct. 2022)
I've set up a cron job to copy (using rsync
) the received images to a directory on my shack's little webserver:
PT. REYES, CALIFORNIA, U.S.A.
I'd like to receive FAX from NMC/Point Reyes in California…. and perhaps I'll leave fldigi monitoring one of their frequencies for a period
CALL SIGN | FREQUENCIES | TIMES (UTC) | EMISSION | POWER |
---|---|---|---|---|
NMC | 4346 kHz | 0140-1608 | J3C | 4 kW |
8682 kHz | ALL BROADCAST TIMES | J3C | 4 kW | |
12786 kHz | ALL BROADCAST TIMES | J3C | 4 kW | |
17151.2 kHz | ALL BROADCAST TIMES | J3C | 4 kW | |
22527 kHz | 1840-2356 | J3C | 4 kW |