{"id":64231,"date":"2025-10-12T05:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=64231"},"modified":"2025-10-12T05:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:58:07","slug":"carlos-uncovers-the-mystery-behind-a-strange-radiofax-from-the-japan-meteorological-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/carlos-uncovers-the-mystery-behind-a-strange-radiofax-from-the-japan-meteorological-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Uncovers the Mystery Behind a Strange Radiofax from the Japan Meteorological Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

This is the image I received today, October 12th, at 7:10 UTC, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the Japan Meteorological Agency, via radiofax (13988 kHz). It was supposed to be a satellite image, showing Tropical Storm Nakri (which will become a typhoon in the next few hours). Instead, I received this truncated image. This isn’t a radio transmission\/reception error, but rather a problem with the image generation from the Japanese Himawari satellite, something I hadn’t seen before.<\/p>\n

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This is the information provided by the Japanese TV NHK website.<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Carlos Latuff, who writes: This is the image I received today, October 12th, at 7:10 UTC, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from the Japan Meteorological Agency, via radiofax (13988 kHz). It was supposed to be a satellite image, showing Tropical Storm Nakri (which will become a typhoon in the […]<\/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":[1114,3,43],"tags":[8043,10568,1545,9246],"class_list":["post-64231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital-modes","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-carlos-latuff","tag-japan-meteorological-agency","tag-nhk","tag-radiofax"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gHZ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":60454,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/carlos-shortwave-art-recording-of-nhk-and-radiofax-meteorological-charts-august-24-2024\/","url_meta":{"origin":64231,"position":0},"title":"Carlos\u2019 Shortwave Art, recording of NHK, and Radiofax Meteorological Charts (August 24, 2024)","author":"Thomas","date":"August 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0contributor and noted political cartoonist,\u00a0Carlos Latuff, who shares\u00a0his radio log art of a recent NHK broadcast and Japan Meteorological Agency Radiofax transmissions. 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