{"id":58155,"date":"2023-11-06T07:41:04","date_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58155"},"modified":"2023-11-06T07:41:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T11:41:04","slug":"inspired-by-carlos-john-dives-into-the-world-of-radiofax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/inspired-by-carlos-john-dives-into-the-world-of-radiofax\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspired by Carlos, John dives into the world of Radiofax"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, John Johnson, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well, based on this post from Carlos Latuff–QSL: Australian Radiofax Received in Brazil<\/a>–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.<\/p>\n

So as usual a wikipedia is helpful: WEFAX – Signal Identification Wiki<\/a><\/p>\n

Which led me to realize\u2026 I already owned the Black Cat Systems decoder in my iPhone, but alas had never tried to use it!<\/p>\n

So I reinstalled the HF FAX program. It had been included in a package of iPhone ham software programs I had previously purchased. I then searched the frequencies linked here: Marine Weather Broadcasts from the USCG<\/a><\/p>\n

And soon after on 12179kc on my D-808 around Noon eastern time on 11\/4\/23 was decoding my first partial wx fax from Boston, I believe:<\/p>\n

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I then started fine tuning the D-808 and as you can see the fax quality began to improve significantly\u2026<\/p>\n

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Alas the signal ended very abruptly, before I could perfectly tune it\u2026 I never received a complete fax but this was a fun radio exercise and I will keep at it.<\/p>\n

WxFax (this is my name for it) reminds me of my NDB beacons. Both are older tech that appear to be rapidly disappearing. Just last night I was happy to tune two new but weak Canadian LW beacons from my Michigan location on my D-808. Alas I then refreshed the dxcentre NDB list–at: https:\/\/www.dxinfocentre.com\/ndb.htm<\/a>–only to find that I would be losing 3 relatively strong beacons to decommission within weeks! Such is the life of an LW NDB chaser in the year 2023.<\/p>\n

Thanks to Carlos for giving me something else to chase on SW HF!<\/p>\n

John Johnson (N8ELK)<\/p>\n

This is brilliant, John! The more you work with the app and reception, the better you’ll get at clear decodes. It’s a skill you’ll build very quickly. Thank you for sharing this!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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. So as usual a wikipedia […]<\/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":[3,43],"tags":[8043,10367,9246,2218],"class_list":["post-58155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-carlos-latuff","tag-john-johnson","tag-radiofax","tag-weather-fax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-f7Z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":57663,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/carlos-pulls-headlines-from-kyodo-news-radiofax\/","url_meta":{"origin":58155,"position":0},"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. 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