{"id":58140,"date":"2023-11-03T17:34:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T21:34:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58140"},"modified":"2023-11-03T05:41:50","modified_gmt":"2023-11-03T09:41:50","slug":"qsl-australian-radiofax-received-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/qsl-australian-radiofax-received-in-brazil\/","title":{"rendered":"QSL: Australian Radiofax Received in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1000008897-01.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-58143\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1000008897-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1110\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1000008897-01.jpeg 1110w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1000008897-01-300x195.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1000008897-01-1024x664.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1000008897-01-768x498.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/1000008897-01-624x405.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1110px) 100vw, 1110px\" \/><\/a><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">For the first time, I received in Porto Alegre a noisy radiofax from the Bureau of Meteorology of Australia: Mean Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) map.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Frequency of 20469 kHz USB, 08h45 UTC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_58142\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031417.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58142\" class=\"wp-image-58142 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031417.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"824\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031417.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031417-300x247.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031417-768x633.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031417-624x514.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radiofax (noisy)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_58141\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031424.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58141\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58141\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031424.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031424.jpg 640w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031424-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/20231103_031424-624x421.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-58141\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Original<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">My request for a QSL card was kindly answered (attached along the radiofax and the original chart from BoM&#8217;s website). Notice that BoM&#8217;s transmitter is 1 KW only!<\/p>\n<p><strong>I realize that your Radiofax decode wa noisy, but I feel like that&#8217;s an impressive feat considering the distance involved, the fact that your radio was a portable, and their output power was only 1,000 watts. Proper Radiofax DX! Thanks for sharing!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes: For the first time, I received in Porto Alegre a noisy radiofax from the Bureau of Meteorology of Australia: Mean Sea Level Pressure (MSLP) map. Frequency of 20469 kHz USB, 08h45 UTC. My request for a QSL card was kindly answered (attached along the radiofax [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[1114,3,894,43],"tags":[10365,8043,248,9246],"class_list":["post-58140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-modes","category-news","category-qsl-gallery","category-shortwave-radio","tag-australian-marine-weather-broadcasts","tag-carlos-latuff","tag-qsl","tag-radiofax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-f7K","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57456,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/carlos-e-qsl-card-from-jfx-kagoshima\/","url_meta":{"origin":58140,"position":0},"title":"Carlos&#8217; E-QSL card from JFX Kagoshima","author":"Thomas","date":"August 9, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes:\u00a0 I got an e-QSL card (see above) from Kagoshima fishery radio station, related to the Radiofax (below) I received on August 2, 2023, at 22h UTC, on 8658 kHz USB, here in Porto Alegre: That's just brilliant, Carlos! I didn't\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803_013215.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803_013215.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803_013215.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/20230803_013215.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":57663,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/carlos-pulls-headlines-from-kyodo-news-radiofax\/","url_meta":{"origin":58140,"position":1},"title":"Carlos pulls headlines from Kyodo News radiofax","author":"Thomas","date":"August 30, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes: Kyodo News is a Japanese news agency, the only one in the world that still transmits news via radiofax to Japanese vessels, on shortwave frequency of 16971 kHz USB. The international radiofax transmission standard is 120 lines per minute, but the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Digital Modes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Digital Modes","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/digital-modes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230829-165457-01.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230829-165457-01.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230829-165457-01.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Screenshot_20230829-165457-01.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":58155,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/inspired-by-carlos-john-dives-into-the-world-of-radiofax\/","url_meta":{"origin":58140,"position":2},"title":"Inspired by Carlos, John dives into the world of Radiofax","author":"Thomas","date":"November 6, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, John Johnson, who writes: Well, based on this post from Carlos Latuff--QSL: Australian Radiofax Received in Brazil--I got interested in HF weather fax decoding. I asked how to do it and got an answer but did not find a linked post that would help.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/HFFax-Images-John-Johnson-cropped-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/HFFax-Images-John-Johnson-cropped-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/HFFax-Images-John-Johnson-cropped-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/HFFax-Images-John-Johnson-cropped-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/HFFax-Images-John-Johnson-cropped-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":58070,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/carlos-notes-passing-of-new-zealand-metservice-radiofax\/","url_meta":{"origin":58140,"position":3},"title":"Carlos notes passing of New Zealand MetService Radiofax","author":"Thomas","date":"October 23, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Carlos Latuff, who writes: Hello Thomas, I'm sad to know that the New Zealand meteorological agency MetService, has retired radiofax in July 1st, and is focusing on \"modern solutions\" of sending synoptic charts to vessels. In 2021 I received several radiofax charts from MetService\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Digital Modes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Digital Modes","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/digital-modes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot_20231022-144346.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot_20231022-144346.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot_20231022-144346.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Screenshot_20231022-144346.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":64920,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/carlos-radiofax-scrapbook-december-16-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":58140,"position":4},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Radiofax Scrapbook: December 16, 2025","author":"Thomas","date":"December 17, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares the latest entry in his Radiofax scrapbook. Carlos notes: Today's Kyodo News Morning Edition, radiofax received in Porto Alegre.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Art&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Art","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/art-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Kyodo-Dec-16-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Kyodo-Dec-16-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Kyodo-Dec-16-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Kyodo-Dec-16-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Latuff-Kyodo-Dec-16-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":64932,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/carlos-radiofax-scrapbook-december-17-2025\/","url_meta":{"origin":58140,"position":5},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Radiofax Scrapbook: December 17, 2025","author":"Thomas","date":"December 18, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares the latest entry in his Radiofax scrapbook. 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