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Hi Dave,
In another lifetime I was into SW RTTY decoding of weatherfax pics
up in the SW bands.
I used my Sony ICF 7600 and a long wire to get Darwin and Canberra
weatherfax frequencies back then.
I think they still broadcast this stuff...for the benefit of boaties.
From memory, without doublechecking it was things like 5500,7555, 10550
or something like these numbers.
You heard a 2 line per second fax RTTY signal on CW and decoded
it into a PC which spat out a fax picture.
Another thread for another time if anyone's interested?
My other radio is a modded FROG 9600.
With this I used to receive satellite pics live from the NOAA 9-14 series
up in the 2m band at 137Mhz and the russian Meteosats as well.
With a masthead 2m preamp tuned specifically at 137 and rejecting
everything else, I could get a picture while these polar orbiting
sats were just passing the coast of antarctica and the signal would drop
out as it flew over Darwin.
All this from Adelaide.
I'll have to dig out some old pics.
One of the most impressive ones I ever got was of an intense low
which caused havoc to the Sydney/Hobart race many years back.
Steve
Last edited by kinetic; 10-05-2009 at 08:34 AM.
Reason: spelling gumby
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