Weather Frequencies?

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Rusty_Nail
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Weather Frequencies?

Post by Rusty_Nail »

Hey all.

While I have been in scanning for a few years now, and have sort of have a clue what I'm doing.. However I have never actually understood weather scanning.. My scanner has the baility to moniter these frequencies.. something about SAME. I believe they are encoded transmissions, and you haev to have software on your computer the decipher these tones, and transform them into a weather map?

Can someone please explain to me how exactly how to scan weather channels, what SAME is, and what the frequencies are?

Cheers.
madmikey
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Post by madmikey »

as far as I am aware, this is not used in aus???
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Post by scanvictoria »

Rusty_Nail wrote:Can someone please explain to me how exactly how to scan weather channels, what SAME is, and what the frequencies are?
What scanner do you have?
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Post by Nick »

Do you mean weather fax that can be received on the aircraft band ( around 137 mhz)and decoded as a mean sea level weather map . These weather maps are also broadcast on several hf frequencies around 16 mhz .
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Post by Pty »

I think he means the WX function available on most scanner. It's only available in Canada.
Rockjet
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try www.bom.gov.au

Post by Rockjet »

You'll find all your weather stuff here :)
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Post by Bonez »

Where?
WPXZBP

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Weather Bureau

or specifically... Weather for W.A.

It was in his subject heading.
Rockjet
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my bad

Post by Rockjet »

Sorry :oops: my bad... still getting used to this amazing site...

www.bom.gov.au

Thats better
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