Friday 5 January 2007

Some more HF-Fax images from Cape Naval

I rolled a new "matching transformer" since I have more noise these days and I thought my old one may failed. The new one uses a ferrite toroid from a busted PC motherboard. It seems that the noise wasn't coming from there, something else is happening. At least the new transformer seems to work better on higher frequencies (preliminary result of course!) So here are some more charts from Cape Naval. And you'll see what I mean with "blurred" charts.



18238 kHz, 0730z, 12:00 SURFACE PROGNOSES (PREVIOUS DAY'S RUN)


So this is how a "blurred" one looks like.


18238 kHz, 0803z, ANTARCTIC ICE LIMITS


Note the "UNCLASSIFIED" notice. (Last word in the text box)


18238 kHz, 1029z, 06:00 SURFACE ANALYSIS


Also a blurred one.


18238 kHz, 1100z, 00:00 SURFACE PROGNOSES


Today they were almost exact regarding start time. But still, if the signal is not strong at your location, it's difficult to catch the start, since the phasing sequence is brief (where is Kyodo, with the nice long tuning session?)

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