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Re: [IRCA] Chile logged!
A Pentium 100. :) Wow, that is cool that it doesn't need much
processing power.
I had something slightly similar for my Commodore 64 computer, 20 plus
years ago. It was a cartridge called simply "SWL" by Microlog and you
ran an audio line out from the radio to the cart and listened through
the cart's headphone jack for the telltale data whistles, chirps and
beeps. I never meesed much with it but did get a Tass press release
through a HF Havana RTTY outlet, before Mr. Gorbachev "tore down these
walls."
73,
Dave in Indy
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Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:15:47 -0400
From: "Jim Renfrew" <jrenfrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: [IRCA] Chile logged!
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Wrongo!
I logged the Chile signal on my Drake R8, I ran an audio line out of the
radio to the computer line in, and voila! I have a Drake R8B as my
primary
DX machine, but I just park my old R8 on 516.38 all day long, and check
the
capture log occasionally to see what's come in. There are also NAVTEX
broadcasts on 490 kHz, usually in the local language. 518 is generally
English. .
The signal is audible on the Drake as a data stream of some kind. Each
station signs on according to - usually - a four or eight hour schedule
on
the 10,20,30,40, or 50 minute mark.
>From the SeaTTY help tab: "This program is designed to receive weather
reports, navigational warnings and weather charts transmitted in RTTY,
NAVTEX and HF-FAX (WEFAX) modes on longwave and shortwave bands.It can
decode GMDSS DSC (Digital selective-calling system) HF and VHF
messages.Software also can automatically save NOAA Weather Radio SAME
voice
messages (NWR SAME) and them digital headers.
Additional hardware is not required - your need only receiver and
computer
with sound card. Minimal requirement for computer speed is about
Pentium-100."
I have only used this for NAVTEX on 490 and 518.
Jim Renfrew
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