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 …
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.
Figure 1: The pieces and parts for a QDH weather fax antenna
Posted 08/17/2015:
My eventual intent to go maritime mobile is connected with amateur radio in more ways than the obvious. Homebrew construction technique is valuable for other things, and in this case I intend to put it to use while building a satellite weather fax station (maritime mobile version).
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