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[*] posted on 7-27-2007 at 09:43 AM
HF Weather Fax Deadline


The deadline is approaching (August 24) for anyone to submit comments regarding the need for the continuation of HF weather faxes.

If you go to this website:

http://dmses.dot.gov/docimages/p101/466958.pdf the basis for the request for comments is detailed, along with how to submit your comments.

If you still rely on this service, it would be a good idea to let them know before the deadline.

Quite a few years ago they did the same thing. They had enough responses that the program continued.
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[*] posted on 7-27-2007 at 11:25 AM


I would be in favor of this.

I can still display or print these using a combination of my Sony ICF-2010 and a basic laptop with weatherfax software. Sure alot cheaper than the satellite weather services.

I really dont do it much, but hope to in retirement by getting WAY offshore for long periods.

[Edited on 7-27-2007 by Hook]




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[*] posted on 7-27-2007 at 11:48 AM


Hook - I have exactly the same SW weather fax combo!

My first task at a summer campsite in Baja was to string the antenna (a byproduct was that I could get SW BBC News and that all-news MW station in LA).

Nowadays, even out here on the ranch, we have high speed Internet, and getting up to minute, blow by blow animated maps of just how the hurricane is going to hit you, somehow lacks the old excitement . . .
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[*] posted on 7-27-2007 at 12:52 PM


I do the same thing, Rob. You have one of the Sony reel-type antennas?
An AN-XX?

Is the MW station in LA you're talking about KNX?

Other good AM all-news stations I've found are KCBS San Francisco 740AM and KOMO in Seattle, AM1000. Sometimes the bounce from Seattle is stronger than LA in Baja.




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[*] posted on 7-29-2007 at 03:42 PM


Ahoy Hook,

re Antenna - no, just 40m of loudspeaker wire from Radio Shack.

When you say waaayyy offshore - do you mean motor out then drift? Or are you a yachtie . .?
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