Receiving Weather Fax -7.878.1 Mhz

Decoding the WX signals on the ASUS eeepc

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Education

Tags:

• Yaesu-897
• HF
• Weather
• fax
• Ham
• radio
• UHF
• VHF
• antenna
• WX
• marine

[Latrino]

What antenna are you using?

'73

[zs6djm]

I'm just using a cb antenna as the signal that gets transmited is very strong but a wire antenna for 7mhz would work alot better though.

[zs6djm]

Its WXsat, it can be downloaded for free from the net.

[MaryStewart]

is this 78 mhz or 7.8?  my shortwave uses khz.

[Hanglands]

Yes, I know a few people who really rate the De1102/3. In WXsat, have you checked the FM Tuning for optimal reception? And there is the option on the same drop-down menu, right above or below FM Tuning... I forget what its called now.... you can set the volume to an optimal level. Other than that, you are at the mercy of shortwave... fading is a problem you just have to accept.

[jenson1066]

I've got WXsat going pretty well but again I'm trying out another program; JVCOMM32 which is giving good results. Also, there seems to be a major problem with the Target receiver so I've got to get that looked at. Got a cheap Degen DE1103 receiver and that is getting a clearer reception with just a basic telescopic antenna.

Is there any way to alter the squelch sensitivity on WXsat as it tends to cut-out when the signal gets low even when in the middle of recieving a fax?

[Hanglands]

Once youve done the slant correction in WXsat, you never have to do it again. You could try Seatty (shareware) which gives you 30days free.

[jenson1066]

BTW, WXSat is a pain to set up the Skew - took me about four hours of tinkering to get a viewable image. Weatherfax 2000 is a splendid prog for this,but is crippled to only 30 uses/30days and would cost a fortune if you was serious, but is very easily configured and produces a less noisy picture.

Is there any other freeware progs out there for the windows operating system?

[jenson1066]

I have used a NASA Target HF reciever and a long wire and managed to get a reasonable recperion even given we seem to get a lot of powerline adapter noise! I can only recieve the 4608 Mhz SSB transmission, our location is Chatteris, Cambs UK. I can only get the transmissions from about 09:00 to about 14:00. Any ideas of a better antenna to use? I cannot recieve any other transmissions from Northwood.

[HighFlyer186]

Fantastic video :-)

73 Peter G0OMH

[Hanglands]

Good stuff. I often pick up Hamburg on 7878kHz. Managed to get what I think is a satellite rebroadcast from Halifax, Nova Scotia. But have been unable to repeat this minor success since! Nice vid.