I’ve used a number of decoders over the years and they have all produced some pretty good results, and each have their different features. I do this from time to time, especially when the weather is good here and I want to know when it is likely to end – more often than not, very soon, though I’ll have to admit the weather has been amazing in recent weeks. I’ve been tinkering with Marine weather radiofacsimiles recently. Quality not too bad, 4880 km away from here.Īgain, all received on my Icom IC-R8500 and Wellbrook Loop, using JWX 3.0 software. I received a further two charts before the end of that days charts and the service stopped. Part-way through chart at 2222z on 12th May 2020. As you can see below, the chart just started. It was static on 9108.1 kHz (9110 kHz) when I started and was about to give up, when all of a sudden a transmission started part-way through a chart – just like they’d flicked a switch on that frequency transmitter.

While there are Wind/Wave charts sent on all of the stations, the 24 hour Wind/Wave that is produced by WFO Honolulu is only broadcast on the Hawaii frequency.įrom this, I’m happy to say it was Honolulu that I received and have noted it as such.Īt the time they replied I was actually listening out on one of the NOAA Boston frequencies to see if I could get anything from them. In reviewing the schedules looking for that particular chart (Honolulu’s 24 hr Wind/Wave), I believe that is only transmitted from Hawaii.

After my last blog – Weather Fax from Honolulu – I decided I’d drop the Weather HF Operations in Honolulu an email to see if they could confirm whether it was them that I received or not.Īfter a few hours I got back the following response from one of their Ops staff:

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