RE: [Paddlewise] HF Internet

From: PeterO <rebyl_kayak_at_energysustained.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 21:13:47 +1100
G'day Craig,

Well your guidance worked very well. All I had to do was connect the
computer internal sound card to my SW radio earphone output, download two
pieces of software: Weatherfax 2000 and Comm32; and after an afternoon of
tuning the audio signal its working remarkably well. 

I had to use SSB as the signal was far to weak for AM FSK and with SSB
neither piece of software was adequate by itself but by using the Comms 32
spectrum analysiser and the Weatherfax decoder I'm getting quite readable
albeit slanted fax displays of synoptic charts etc.

Lots of improvements left to do ie getting rid of the slant and improving
signal to noise and I'm sure an external demodulator will be a much better
option than the sound card but its all looking very promising at 10 minutes
a download plus ten minutes for preliminary tuning and probably ten minutes
setup of aerials in the bush!

Thanks again and all the best, PeterO
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