{"id":26859,"date":"2017-07-04T14:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-04T18:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=26859"},"modified":"2017-07-04T06:52:32","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T10:52:32","slug":"guest-post-how-to-convert-navtex-from-svo-olympia-radio-into-an-other-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/guest-post-how-to-convert-navtex-from-svo-olympia-radio-into-an-other-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: How To Convert Navtex from SVO Olympia Radio into an other languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Klaus Boecker (DD2DR), who shares the following guest post:<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Converting Navtex from SVO Olympia Radio into an other languages<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><strong>by Klaus Boecker (DD2DR)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SVO&#8217;s NAVTEX transmission uses the Greek language in Latin letters.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the Google translator can\u2018t translate Greek transmitted in Latin characters.<br \/>\nI found a German web site to convert the Latin letters (the complete text) to Greek letters.<\/p>\n<p>After converting it is possible to use Google Translate to finish the translation.<br \/>\nSo, it becomes more readable for people who are not familiar with the Greek language. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Use the following site to convert Latin letters to Greek letters:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griechisch-konverter.de\/?area=konverter&amp;direction=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.griechisch-konverter.de\/?area=konverter&amp;direction=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a step by step description:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26860\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"655\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX.jpeg 628w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX-288x300.jpeg 288w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX-624x651.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 628px) 100vw, 628px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Convert Latin letters to Greek letters:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griechisch-konverter.de\/?area=konverter&amp;direction=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.griechisch-konverter.de\/?area=konverter&amp;direction=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26861\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX-2.jpeg 669w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX-2-283x300.jpeg 283w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTEX-2-624x660.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After converting, it is possible to use Google Translate and translate the text to a language of your choice:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/translate.google.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/translate.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the conversions\/translations are not 100% perfect, but better than nothing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTX-3.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26862\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTX-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"771\" height=\"575\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTX-3.jpeg 771w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTX-3-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTX-3-768x573.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/NVTX-3-624x465.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 771px) 100vw, 771px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some frequencies used by the NAVTEX service from SVO Olympia Radio. Maybe this list is not complete.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Navtex frequencies SVO in kHz<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4209<\/li>\n<li>4214.5<\/li>\n<li>4216<\/li>\n<li>6314<\/li>\n<li>6325.5<\/li>\n<li>8416,5<\/li>\n<li>8421<\/li>\n<li>8424<\/li>\n<li>12586<\/li>\n<li>12590.5<\/li>\n<li>12603.5<\/li>\n<li>16585<\/li>\n<li>16815<\/li>\n<li>16818<\/li>\n<li>16830.5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>73 de DD2DR Klaus<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Many thanks for sharing your tutorial, Kaus! You&#8217;re right about Google Translate, too; it&#8217;s far from perfect, but generally conveys the overall meaning of the the message.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Klaus Boecker (DD2DR), who shares the following guest post: Converting Navtex from SVO Olympia Radio into an other languages by Klaus Boecker (DD2DR) SVO&#8217;s NAVTEX transmission uses the Greek language in Latin letters. Unfortunately, the Google translator can\u2018t translate Greek transmitted in Latin characters. I found a German web site [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1114,627,3,43],"tags":[5772,4679],"class_list":["post-26859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-modes","category-how-to","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-klaus-boecker","tag-navtex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6Zd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23107,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/klaus-magnetic-loop-antenna-in-urban-camouflage\/","url_meta":{"origin":26859,"position":0},"title":"Klaus&#8217; magnetic loop antenna in &#8220;urban camouflage&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"January 2, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Klaus Boecker, who originally posted these images of his homebrew magnetic loop antenna on the\u00a0Shortwave Radio Station Listening Facebook page. 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