Shortwave Weather Faxes with the Ten Tec RX320D

Figure 1: RX320D, by Ten Tec, with “homemade” serial gender changer. Click to enlarge

So, I’d been trying to obtain weather faxes, of the type transmitted by the shortwave weather transmitters run by the US Coast Guard, and do that by using the little Soft66 Lite SDR board.  I’d added a preamp to that line-up in order to improve results, yet it seemed that improvement was needed still. So …

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Weather Fax via Shortwave

Figure 1: Received from Boston Coast Guard Transmitter (4 kilowatts) with the fldigi ham software.

The received transmission was not very strong, so the resulting facsimile came through with some rough spots, and the bottom half is relatively poor, but it should be observed that good results are possible.

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