Last Info

Updated Jan. 12-2008

A new version of the publication "Worldwide Marine Radiofacsimile Broadcast Schedules"
dated Dec 05, 2007 may be found at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/rfax.pdf
A great thanks to Tim Rulon, NOAA

The 14 June 2006 will mark a historic landmark in the calendar for the first generation of Meteosat satellites. On this date it is planned to terminate Meteosat-7 direct dissemination services from 0°.
After nearly a quarter of a century, the first generation Meteosat satellites will stop transmitting 0° image data and products for direct reception.

New frequency Tashkent Meteo move from 4067.25 KHz, to 3252.25 KHz
Source: Marian Nagy, OM1EI

XAXERO now released Weatherfax and SkyEye for Windows(r) Mac (r) and GNU-Linux (r)

APT STATUS REPORT 12 Jan. 2008 (from my own observations)

Satellite	Freqeuncy	Status	Image Quality
NOAA-12	137.500 MHz	OFFAM Standby	Due to a severly degradated EPS subsystem, NOAA-12 was decommission on 10 Aug 2007
NOAA-14	137.620 MHz	OFF AM Standby
NOAA-15	137.500 MHz	ONAM Backup	GOOD
NOAA-16	137.620 MHz	OFF PM Primary
NOAA-17	137.620 MHz	ON AM Primary	GOOD
NOAA-18	137.100 MHz	ON	GOOD
METEOR 3-5	137.300 MHz	OFF
RESURS	137.850 MHz	OFF
SICH1-M	137.400 MHz	ON *see Note	Clearly there are problems with the APT image

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Note Sich1 -M:It has been reported that Sich1-M has been launched at 24 Dec. 2004 sucsesfully from Plesetsk, and has reached its target in orbit.
However there was an anomaly with the rocket's final stage resulting in the satellite having a highly elliptical and unstable orbit (approx. 280 - 640 km altitude).
The first APT signal was heard about 08.10 UTC Saturday 29th January.
Clearly there are problems with the APT image.
Note: It will only transmit in range of Russian/Ukrainian receiving stations.Source: Douglas S Deans

NB. There are no Russian Meteor Resurs or Okean satellites transmitting or able to transmit APT.

13 March 2007

CALL FOR DONATIONS FOR ARISS ANTENNAS ON COLUMBUS

ESA has accepted the installation of an amateur radio station onboard the
Columbus module, the space laboratory which will be attached to the International Space Station at the end of the year.

L/S-band patch antennas will be fixed on Meteorite Debris Panels (MDP) which protect the hull of Columbus. Feedthroughs and coaxial cables have already been installed and holes drilled in MDPs on the nadir of the space lab where the antennas will be fixed. The installation cost is supported by ESA. It amounts to well over 100.000?.

The antennas are developed by the Institute of Telecommunications and Acoustics of Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland.

A year ago we have launched a funding campaign for the development and manufacturing of the antennas. The collected money has permitted to start the development of antennas by the University in close collaboration with EADS and Alenia Spazio, the contractors in charge of Columbus.

The construction of Columbus has reached its final stage. The ARISS antennas shall be installed in May 2007. A most important aspect has yet to be solved : funding.

The Wroclaw University of Technology has obtained a special funding for the ARISS antennas from the Polish Ministry of Research and Development. This helps cover the total cost and limits our effort to 65.000 euro.
47.000 euro has already been paid by ARISS. We still have to pay 18.000 euro to finish the work.

Our goal has been set to 80.000 euro. After the antennas are fixed on the module and Columbus is attached to the ISS, we will still need to build the onboard equipment.

Taking into account that time is getting really short, ARISS-Europe renews the call for donations to the IARU and AMSAT societies as well as to their members individually. Every contribution, small or important, is very welcome.

Donations are publishedÂ on www.ariss-eu.org . You can use PayPal on the Columbus page of the website. If you prefer, your donation will be published as anonymous.

In the name of the amateur radio community, we thank the donators who contribute to the presence of amateur radio on manned territory in Space.

Please help now. We are very near to the goal. Don't let us miss the last step.

Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman

<gaston.bertels@skynet.be>

Note: this message is circulated to 706 addressees.
Marian Nagy OM1AXO, Bratislava found a Unid 120/576 on 4063.83 khz USB instead of 4065.35 khzMauro Giroletti, Italy reported that on 15.988 Khz DDK not // 7880, Date 11 Dezember, 2006.Marian Nagy OM1AXO, Bratislava found a Unid 120/576 on 4065.35 khz.

Kodiak radiofax will be nonoperational for an indeterminate period as a result of a fire at COMSTA Kodiak resulting
in multiple burned transmission cables. Source: Tim Rulon

The ALDEN AE-3300 is a new integrated software defined radio and is now launched. More infoFIRST METOP SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED
OCTOBER 19, 2006
TODAY, EUROPE ENTERED A NEW ERA OF WEATHER AND CLIMATE MONITORING WHEN THE FIRST IN THE SERIES OF OPERATIONAL METEOROLOGICAL SATELLITES IN POLAR ORBIT, METOP, WAS SUCCESSFULLY LAUNCHED FROM BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN ON A SOYUZ FREGAT LAUNCHER AT 16:28 UTC (18:28 CEST; 22:28 BAIKONUR TIME).

ESA spokesman Bernhard von Weyhe said that once in orbit, the satellite successfully deployed its solar panels. This was a critical step that ensures it will have electrical power -- a relief for officials at the ground control center in Darmstadt, Germany.

"The power is on, the satellite is fully alive and stable," von Weyhe said. "You can say there is great joy and relief in the control room, and there was a moment of applause when we were able to orient the panels."

ESA will operate the satellite for the next three days, adjusting its orbit, before turning it over to Eumetsat, the European agency in charge of the weather satellite program.

APT data NOAA 18 swapped from 137.100 Mhz to VTX-2 137.9125 Mhz on 20 Jul at 13:20 UTC
Thefrequency will be switched back to 137.9125 MHz on July 20^th from 137.910 MHz. This is because of the impending launch of MetOp-A. Last APT Images from Metesat 7 (14 June 2006) Note: The ADMIN is disseminated for ranging purposes only

0300-IR-D4
0300-IR-D5
0530-WV-E1
0530-WV-E2
0530-WV-E3
0600-IR-D6
0700-IR-D7
0700-IR-D8
0700-IR-D9
0730-IR-D1
0730-IR-D3
0730-IR-ITOT
0730-VIS-C2D
0800-CTH-CTH
0800-VIS-C3D
0814-TEST-TEST
0830-IR-D2
0830-VIS-C02
0830-VIS-C03
0830-VIS-C5D
0830-VIS-C6D
1814-ADMIN-ADMIN( the ADMIN is disseminated for ranging purposes only)

VTX-1 (APT data) NOAA 15 to be turned OFF 18 June (21:00z) through 21 Jul (21:00z) because of RF conflict with N12Europeans first polar orbiting satellite moves closer to launch

MetOp-A in the Upper Composite Processing Facility (UCIF), at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, where the satellite will be integrated.
Credits: EUMETSAT 2006

At a press day jointly organised by EADS Astrium, ESA and EUMETSAT in Toulouse, media had the final opportunity to view the MetOp satellite before its shipment to Baikonur and to gain insight into the new mission.

MetOp-2 (which will be renamed Metop-A once successfully in orbit), Europe€™s first operational meteorological satellite in polar orbit, is undergoing last testing prior to its shipment to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, which is planned for April. Currently validation testing of its complete system is being performed, this includes a compatibility test between the satellite and the ground segment. The success of this final verification phase will clear the way for the shipment of the MetOp satellite to the launch site. The satellite is scheduled for launch at the end of June on a Soyuz launcher operated by Starsem.

Add the new schedules from USCG Boston (NMF), USCG Pt. Reyes (NMC and Honolulu Meteo (NMC).

USCG Boston (NMF) effective May 16. 2006 May.-28-2006
Or go direct for the latest schedule to http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/marsh.shtml

USCG Pt. Reyes (NMC) effective May 16. 2006 May.-28-2006
Or go direct for the latest schedule to http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/hfreyes.txt

Honolulu Meteo (KVM) effective May 16, 2006 and June 20, 2006 May.-28-2006
Or go direct for the latest schedule to http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/hfhi.txt

APT data NOAA 15 turn OFF planned for 1 Mar through 2 Apr 06 because of RF conflict with N12. Found UNIDon 12000 kHz 2345 UTC LPM 120 Halifax (CFH) on 9892 kHz
It seems the FAX/RTTY broadcast from Halifax/CFH have makes a frequency change from 10536 kHz to 9892 kHz Hamburg Met FAX also on 15988 kHz?
Since this frequency has been used previously by DWD on DDK8 11638 kHz, DDK7 15988 kHz for RTTY broadcast.SuitSat is no longer transmitting.
Create a special SuitSat page, click here New eproms for the Vanguard WEPIX 2000-B receiver
The new NOAA satellites, NOAA N, scheduled for launch around May 11, 2005, and NOAA N', scheduled for a December 2007 launch, will be using new transmission frequencies for APT transmission. The new frequencies, 137.100 and 137.9125 MHz are not programmed into the 2716 EPROM of the WEPIX 2000B receiver
Since the design of the WEPIX receiver will only accept frequency steps of 5 KHz or 10 KHz, the new 137.9125 frequency cannot be exactly programmed, so I chose the closest values above and below that frequency. The error is only 2.5 KHz, so either channel should be able to receive the APT signal with minimum degredation. Due to doppler shift, the recption may be slightly better on one channel while the satellite is approaching, and it may be better on the other channel as the satellite moves away from your location
Bank 2 of the EPROM does need to be changed, if you are happy with the existing frequency programming.

Th eproms for the Vanguard WEPIX 2000-B receiver for receiving NOAA-18, cost is $ 10.00 US for US and Canada, $20.00 worldwide postage is included. These eproms are programmed per Milan Konecny's frequency chart.
e-mail Arlon Nelson to order your EPROM

Masa JN1GKZ Tokyo Japan received Suitsat signal 04 february, and there you can hear a part of messages.

Kepler data for SuitSat-1 are now available:

SUITSAT-1
1 28933U 05035C 06035.17648092 .00150877 00000-0 98827-3 0 18
2 28933 51.6460 151.5234 0008831 241.8711 118.1817 15.74747302 34

Message from Frank Bauer, ARISS chairman,
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Silver Spring, Maryland
4 February 2006 at 22:00 UTC
Paraphrasing Mark Twain....the demise of SuitSat-1 is high exaggerated!!
It is now nearly 24 hours since the successful deployment of the SuitSat-1 experiment. These past 24 hours have been a wild ride of emotions...tremendous highs...deep lows when people reported no signals and said SuitSat-1 was dead and now....some optimism.
It is absolutely clear that SuitSat-1 is alive. It was successfully turned on by the ISS crew prior to deploy and the timing, micro-controller functions and audio appear to be operating nominally. The prime issue appears to be an extremely weak signal.
I have heard several recordings and have monitored two passes today. When the signal is above the noise level, you can clearly hear partials of the student voices, the station ID and the SSTV signal. One of the complicating factors in reception is the very deep fades that occur due to the spin of SuitSat.
Based on the information we know thus far, one can narrow down the issue to the antenna, the feedline, the transmitter output power and/or any of the connections in between. Through your help, we would like to narrow down the issue further and also gather some internal telemetry from the Suit. If the transmitter is running at full power, we would expect the Suit to end operations in the next few days to a week. If it is not, then it will operate much longer.Â Since we do not know how long this experiment will last, we ask for those with powerful receive stations to listen for Suitsat---especially during direct overhead passes when the Suit is closest to your area. If you can record these passes and send the audio to us, it would be most appreciated. We will continue to be optimistic that this issue will right itself before the batteries are depleted.
So please KEEP LISTENING!
Based on what we have learned, we would like to provide the following guidelines to save you time and facilitate gathering information.
1) You need as high a gain antenna as possible with mast mounted pre-amps. An arrow is the minimal set...it provides very brief snipets of the communications. HTs and scanners won't cut it.
2) I would not waste your time on passes below 40 degrees elevation.Â SuitSat is too far from your station to receive a reliable signal. We have found that closest approach provides several seconds of SuitSat communication with 22 element yagis.
3) The "gold" we are looking for right now is the telemetry information and how long the vehicle stays operational.Â So if you hear any of the telemetry, please let us know.

We are also working to get the voice repeater set up on ISS to downlink SuitSat audio on 437.80 in the event that the ISS Kenwood radio can receive the SuitSat transmissions. The repeater may be operational as early as mid-day Sunday. Please do NOT transmit on 145.99, voice or packet, until we have confirmed that SuitSat is no longer transmitting. These transmissions interfere with our ability to hear SuitSat.

While the transmission part of the SuitSat experiment has not been stellar, SuitSat-1 has been tremendously successful in several areas. Some of these successes include:

-We have captured the imagination of students and the general public worldwide through this unique experiment
-The media attention to the SuitSat project represents one of the biggest ever for amateur radio
-We have had well over 2 million internet hits on http://www.suitsat.org/ today
-Our student's creative artwork, signatures and voices have been carried in space and are on-board the spacesuit---the students are now space travelers as the Suit rotates and orbits the Earth
-Carried in the spacesuit CD are pictures of Roy Neal, K6DUE, and Thomas Kieselbach, DL2MDE, two of our colleagues who have contributed to the ARISS program and have since passed away
-We successfully deployed an amateur radio satellite in a Spacesuit from the ISS, demonstrating to the space agencies that this can be safely done.
-This ARISS international team was able to fabricate, test and deliver a safe ham radio system to the ISS team 3 weeks after the international space agencies agreed to allow SuitSat to happen.Â This was a tremendous feat in of itself.

SuitSat-1/Radioskaf is a space pioneering effort. Pioneering efforts are challenging. Risk is high. But the future payoff is tremendous. As you have seen, we have not had total success.Â But we have captured the imagination of the students and the general public. And we have already learned a lot from this activity. This will help us and others grow from this experience.

Keep your spirits up and let's continue to be optimistic. And please keep monitoring!!

73, Frank H. Bauer, KA3HDO
ARISS International Chairman
AMSAT-NA VP for Human Spaceflight Programs

Service Termination Meteosat satellites
The 14 June 2006 will mark a historic landmark in the calendar for the first generation of Meteosat satellites. On this date it is planned to terminate Meteosat-7 direct dissemination services from 0°. After nearly a quarter of a century, the first generation Meteosat satellites will stop transmitting 0° image data and products for direct reception.

Due to the continuing uncertainty with respect to the launch date of MSG-2 (to be renamed Meteosat-9 in operation), the termination of Meteosat-7 direct dissemination services at 0° has been de-coupled from the MSG-2 launch. Therefore, it is planned to terminate the following Meteosat-7 direct dissemination services from 0° on 14 June 2006:

WEFAX (all C, D and E formats)
High Resolution Image HRI 0° (all A, B and L formats)
Meteorological Data Dissemination
Data Collection Platform Retransmissions

All the above services, except for WEFAX, will continue to be disseminated via EUMETCast. The DCP message acquisition will continue to be performed by Meteosat-7 until the handover to MSG-2 (Meteosat-9).

In addition, the generation and distribution of the Meteosat-7 (0°) Meteorological Products will terminate. The Meteorological Products generated from the other first generation satellites, those derived from Meteosat-6 (10°E) and Meteosat-5 (63°E) data, will continue to be distributed via the GTS/RMDCN. The Meteosat Second Generation meteorological product service available via EUMETCast and the GTS/RMDCN will continue unaffected.

The FTP over the Internet rolling 7-day archive of Meteosat-7 (0°) data will also be terminated on 14 June 2006. All first generation Meteosat data and products from 0° will continue to be made available upon request from the Online Archive Service.

Concerning the Meteosat-6 Rapid Scanning Service, it is the intention to terminate this service at the end of 2006. These image data will continue to be made available on EUMETCast and via FTP over the Internet until the scheduled termination date.

The Future for Meteosat-7

Following the expected start of operations of the MSG-2 (Meteosat-9) satellite in mid-2006, the Meteosat-7 satellite will begin the drifting process to 63°E. It is anticipated that after the two-month manoeuvre process Meteosat-7 will take over the Indian Ocean Data Coverage service from the Meteosat-5 satellite. Following this successful handover, Meteosat-5 will be decommissioned and removed to a graveyard orbit.

Continuing with Meteosat Second Generation

It is still not too late to make the transition to the new services provided by the Meteosat Second Generation satellites (from Meteosat-8 onwards). EUMETCast provides access to all Meteosat-8 SEVIRI Image and Meteorological Product services as well as a set of additional services supplied by external data providers.

Source: EUMETSAT

Found this UNID on 3584,9 kHz, it is a Asian station, but I dont know the qrg. Perhaps a korean station
It sends continuous his charts / tables, any idea?
See an example of a chart from 30 Jauary at 21:00 UTC.
And a example of a chart from 30. janaury at 21:14 UTCSuitSat to be launched Friday February 3 and will send SSTV images from the ISS

A Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA)—or Spacewalk will be conducted on the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday 3 February 2006. During this spacewalk, the ISS crew will push a discarded Russian spacesuit overboard - with no humans in it, of course!
The “Orlan” spacesuit has been modified to carry an amateur radio station and has been dubbed Suitsat-1 (also called Radioskaf or Radio Sputnik in Russian).

The image above shows SuitSat in it's flight configuration. You can see the electronics control panel on the top of the helmet along with the SuitSat antenna. A new handle has been added around the midsection of the suit (black stripes). The handle is an important addition that will allow the astro/cosmonaut launching the suit to move it safely.
SuitSat-1 carries an amateur radio transmitter but no receiver. It will broadcast a 1 watt signal on 145.990 MHz FM.

One of the reasons the Russian ARISS branch, conducted by Sergei Samburov RV3DR, were interested in developping SuitSat was an on-orbit commemoration of the 175st anniversary of the Bauman Moscow State Technical university. This university is where many of the engineers in the Russian Space Agency graduated. As a result, the Russian generated messages include congratulatory comments to the BaumanMoscowStateTechnicalUniversity.

In addition to the messages from Russia, there are voice messages from students in Japan, Europe (Spanish and German), Canada (French) and the USA. Several of the student messages include a special word. One student project for SuitSat is
to copy all the special words (in different languages) and submit them to the ARISS team for special educational award recognition.

Moreover, telemetry data will also be included in the transmit cycle. Battery voltage, onboard temperature and elapsed time since launch will be generated in English by an integrated voice synthetizer. Finally, an SSTV (Slow Scan Television) image is also provided.

The total transmit cycle is about 8 minutes. Messages are separated by no-transmit periodes to aleviate the duty cycle. The batteries will probably be empty after only a few days. SuitSat-1 will deorbit in several weeks, but will become silent within a week or so.
Launch is expected to occur Tuesday 3 February at about 22:20 UTC. The transmitter will become active 15 minutes later. This delay has been provided to protect the astro/cosmonauts.

SuitSat-1 will slowly depart from the ISS orbit. Its is hoped that special SuitSat Kepler data will become available soon.

The signals can be picked up with VHF radio receivers tuned to 145.990 MHz. Moreover, the ISS onboard station NA1SS will relay SuitSat-1 signals on 437.800 MHz FM.

Those who hear SuitSat transmissions are asked to enter their data on the SuitSat website, http://www.suitsat.org/ so that participants around the world can track the satellite.

Educational Outreach reports (at schools or informal education sites) as well as Slow Scan TV images can be sent to mailto:suitsat@comcast.net . This information will be compiled by the ARISS team.

Success!
Source: Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
ARISS-Europe Chairman
http://www.ariss-eu.org/

APT STATUS REPORT 04 Feb. 2006 (from my own observations)

Satellite

Freqeuncy

Status

Image Quality

NOAA-12

137.500 MHz

ON AM Standby

GOOD

NOAA-14

137.620 MHz

OFF AM Standby

NOAA-15

137.500 MHz

ON AM Backup

GOOD

NOAA-16

137.620 MHz

OFFPM Primary

NOAA-17

137.620 MHz

ON AM Primary

GOOD

NOAA-18

137.100 MHz

ON

GOOD Freqency 137.10 mHz since
4 Jan 06

METEOR 3-5

137.300 MHz

OFF

RESURS

137.850 MHz

OFF

SICH1-M

137.400 MHz

ON *see Note

Clearly there are problems with the APT image

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Note Sich1-M:It has been reported that Sich1-M has been launched at 24 Dec. 2004 sucsesfully from Plesetsk, and has reached its target in orbit.
However there was an anomaly with the rocket's final stage resulting in the satellite having a highly elliptical and unstable orbit (approx. 280 - 640 km altitude).
The first APT signal was heard about 08.10 UTC Saturday 29th January.
Clearly there are problems with the APT image.
Note: It will only transmit in range of Russian/Ukrainian receiving stations.Source: Douglas S Deans

NB. There are no Russian Meteor Resurs or Okean satellites transmitting or able to transmit APT.

The NOAA-12 and NOAA-15 spacecraft have similar orbits, and both transmit their APT imagery at a radio frequency of 137.5 MHz. If the satellites should come within ~6000km of each other, ground receiving stations could potentially receive transmissions from both satellites simultaneously, which would result in a garbled image. So if the satellites should approach within 6000km of each other (i.e. the satellites are said to be 'in conflict'), usually the 137.5 MHz transmitter aboard the older NOAA-12 spacecraft is switched off. However occasionally NOAA-15 is switched off instead.

NOAA-12 orbits slightly faster than NOAA-15, completing 14.25071335 earth orbits per day, compared with 14.24238665 orbits of NOAA-15. These numbers look very similar, but the difference between them (0.0083269) means that every 120.1 days NOAA-12 will complete one more orbit than NOAA-15. So roughly speaking, every day NOAA-12 'gains' on NOAA-15 by ~375 km. At this rate, NOAA-12 and 15 will remain within ~6000 km of each other for ~30 days. With NOAA-12 lapping NOAA-15 once every 120.1 days, and with the spacecraft too close to each other for ~30 days, either NOAA-12 or NOAA-15 APT transmissions are switched off for about one month in four.

During the times that NOAA-12/15 is switched off, you may wish to monitor the current whereabouts of NOAA-12 and NOAA-15 as they play tag with each other around the globe. Plan for NOAA 18 APT Freqency swap to (137.10 mHz) on 4 Jan 06RN Northwood is testing a new frequency for their fax transmissions on 12390 KHz..
They ask for reports from any person receiving it and promise a QSL in response.
Source: Ignacio CembrerosPlan NOAA15 VTX-1 (APT data) TURNOFF on 13 Nov at 19:00z through 15 Dec 05.Mauro Giroletti, Italy reported that Northwood (charts for the Gulf region) has a new frequeny in use, 12.390 KHz, logged at 13;00 UTC Mauro Giroletti, Italy reported that Rome Meteo is again active on 8146KHz alternate 4777 KHz, with bad signal with multipath. All HF radiofacsimile, HF voice and NAVTEX weather broadcasts from United States Coast Guard station NMG in New Orleans, LA have been restored.

As a permanant change, the Boston radiofacsimile broadcast has been expanded to include Hurricane Danger/High Wind Warning Charts transmitted at 0452, 1028, 1824 and 2228 UTC. See the complete schedule at http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/hfmarsh.txt

NOAA will change NOAA-18 APT frequency from 137.9125 MHz to 137.100 MHz

Allen Woodruff (Moderator) has setup a HF-Fax group, if you ever wanted to receive HF marine fax charts on your computer from coast guard stations and see the charts being processed on your computer. you will be able to see satellite IR images wind and wave, sea and surface temp charts and many more. if this interest you and you would like to process these charts on your computer using your soundcard in your computer. all you need is a shortwave radio that has the abilty recieve upper & lower sidebad and a outside antenna. if you are interested in this feel free to join my group.
05 June NOAA 18 is scheduled to turn on the IR sensors and the satellite should transmit normal images like the other NOAA satellites at that time NOAA-N successfully launched from Vandenberg AFB, California, will gather information for weather prediction and climate research across the globe. Launched 20 May 05 at 10:22:02. All deployments (solar array, VTX, SRA, UDA antennas) completed nominally by 11:48Z. Boost phase nominally completed, orbit handover achieved 11:50Z

Try to decode the first days when NOAA N is operational the enchangements Vegetation.
After launch, NOAA-N will be renamed NOAA-18. NOAA N or NOAA-18 will transmit APT on either 137.9125 MHz or 137.10 MHz. NOT on 137.62 MHz or 137.50 MHz!
NOAA 18 is now sending APT images from its orbit on 137.9125 MHz. Since the IR equipment is not yet operational, 2 VIS channels are being sent for the next few weeks.
Operational Date: June-10-2005. Added new Facsimile schedule for Tokyo Meteo (JMH)click here. I have added the new schedules from USCG Kodiak. Pt. Reys. and Honolulu. Effective June 15 2005
USCG Kodiak, Alsaka effective June 15. 2005 Apr-17-2005
Or go direct for the latest schedule to http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/hfak.txt
USCG Pt. Reyes (NMC) effective June 15. 2005 Apr.-17-2005
Or go direct for the latest schedule to http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/hfreyes.txt
Honolulu Meteo (KVM) effective June 15. 2005 Apr.-17.-2005
Or go direct for the latest schedule to http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/hfhi.txt

Look at the first images from NOAA 18 passes over EuropeImage 1and Image 2

J-Track from NASA.
The tracking system calculates an approximate location for a list of satellites.
I have added this Link to NASA to my pages Mauro Girolettu, Italy hasreported, thatRome Meteo is on air at 4777,7 and 8146,8 KHz
Northwood (GYA) now also on 16.155 KHz, source: Mauro Giroletti.
Frequencies Northwood:
GYA 2618.5 kHz
GYA 4610 kHz
GYA 8040 kHz
GYA 11086.5 kHz
GYA 16155 kHz (New)
During recent testing of the NOAA-N spacecraft at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, NOAA encountered a technical problem with one of the mission data transmitters. With NASA and the spacecraft contractor, Lockheed Martin, NOAA have investigated the problem, assessed the need for replacing the transmitter and analyzed the mission impact, if NOAA use the transmitter "as is." NOAA have determined that the problem is not generic in nature and that the best course of action is to replace the one transmitter with an existing spare. This will move the launch date for NOAA-N from March 19 to May 11 (TBC). The launch time remains at 2:22 a.m. PST (3:22 a.m. PDT) with a ten minute launch window.

After launch, NOAA-N will be renamed NOAA-18 (APT 137.100) and will provide measurements of the Earth's surface and atmosphere that will be entered into NOAA's weather forecasting models and used for other environmental studies. Each day, the satellite will send data to NOAA's Command and Data Acquisition station computers, adding vital information to forecasting models, especially over the oceans, where conventional data is lackingFLEET WEATHER AND OCEANOGRAPHIC CENTRE NORTHWOOD

(New schedule 11 June 2004)
Area: Gulf

3289.5 kHz

As required

6834 kHz

HH+24

14436 kHz

As required

18261 kHz

HH+24

Broadcast time*

Chart

Data time* on which product is based

0230/1430

Schedule

0306/1506

Surface analysis

00/12

0406/1806

Surface analysis

00/12

0506

Surface analysis

00

0630/1830

Surface prognosis T+24

00/12

0642/1842

Surface prognosis T+48

00/12

0654/1854

Surface prognosis T+72

00/12

0706/1906

Surface prognosis T+96

00/12

0718/1918

Surface prognosis T+120

00/12

0754

Surface prognosis T+24

00

0806/2006

Ambient Noise prognosis T+24

00

0818/2018

Mixed layer depth prognosis T+24

00

- /2030

Sea surface temperature T+24

00

0830/2042

Sea and swell prognosis T+24

00

0842

Sea surface temperature T+24

00

- /2206

Surface prognosis T+24

12

*Note: All times are GMT/UTC
Eddy Waters found a UNID on 11.502 KHz who transmitt at 12:10 UTC a forecast chart from NWS TPC/National Hurricane Center Miami, Florida. This frequency is not a official frequency from USCG New Orleans (NMG), who transmitt normally these charts.Ary Boender, Netherlands (WUN Member) found a UNID fax station from Russia at 7727.5 KHz.
This UNID station sends aeronautical charts from the Hydrometeorological Centre of Russia in 120/576 mode
Take a look of some charts which has ary Boender received:
Chart 1
Chart 2
Chart 3
Chart 4
Chart 5
A bibliography of references, articles, publications and Books, refer to the history of facsimile.
To see the pageclick here Change in Pt Reyes frequency from 12730 to 12590.5 khz Source: Tim Rulon NOAA The meteo FAX service of the Hellenic National Meteorological Service is testing daily at about 0850 UTC using old charts dated 31 March 2004.

SWA16 4481.4 kHz
SWA28 8105.4 kHz

Source: Costas Krallis, Greece

NOAA-12 experienced a power system anomaly and went into a Power Survival Safe State around 2300Z on July 25. This mode places the satellite in a power safe state by shutting off the instruments (AVHRR, HIRS, SEM, MSU).
Engineers are investigating the anomaly. Initial investigation is showing a solar array or battery cell problem
Note: Recovery operations underway. AVHRR return to service expected NET 27 Jul. SEM and AVHRR status declared Yellow until recovery. Updated several HF-fax schedules, see schedules Ted, JA2GZZ is living in Japan. he is aa SLOW SCANNER . He inform me, that they having in Japan the SSTV convention every year. They are going to manage THE 15TH SSTV CONVENTION in SHIZUOKA JAPAN next year. So he want to inform it to DX stations, visit this Website JMH ceased two frequencies. looks like JMH is no longer using 9970 khz, and 23522.9 khz
JMH 3622.5 khz
JMH1 7505 khz
JMH4 13597 khz
JMH5 18220 khz
Source: Raymond Prestridge Weatherford, Texas, USA Raymond Prestridge Weatherford, Texas, USA wrote: JMH (Tokyo Meteo) has ceased operations on 9970 khz. This would be JMH3, I believe. I have not received them broadcasting on 9970 khz for maybe a month now, and I notice their test charts and MANAM no longer indicate using this frequency. That's too bad, since 9970 khz was where I typically got the best results from them. Here in the southwestern US, JMH2 on 7305 many times has some heterodyne type interference that ruins the reception.JMH's other frequencies do well at times, but 9970 and 7305 are (were) presently the most dependable. Note from me: the latest schedule from 25th Mar 2004 did not mention this.

STATUS OF HF RADIO BROADCAST (JMH) AT RTH TOKYO

  (Submitted by Hiroyuki Ichijo (Japan) )
This document includes the report on the status of the HF radio broadcast named JMH at RTH Tokyo, and the summary of replies to a questionnaire about services for maritime meteorological information from ship users.
ACTION PROPOSED
The meeting is invited to provide information and advice on HF broadcasts for ship users and the possibility of the discontinuation.
1. An outline of JMH
JMH is the HF facsimile broadcast providing weather charts for mainly ship users on the Pacific Ocean and WMO Members in Region II. It has been operated by JMA since 1958. About 50 charts are broadcasted daily according to the precise schedule. Most of the charts are produced automatically by JMA’s NWP system. JMA uses radio transmission facilities and broadcasting services provided by NTT-East (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation).   The radio transmission conditions are shown in Table1. Figure 1 shows the configuration of JMH.
Table 1   Radio transmission conditions of JMH

Call sign

Frequency

Power

Type of emission

JMH

3622.5 kHz

5 kW

F3C

JMH2

7305 kHz

5 kW

F3C

JMH3

9970 kHz

5 kW

F3C

JMH4

13597 kHz

5 kW

F3C

JMH5

18220 kHz

5 kW

F3C

JMH6

23522.9 kHz

5 kW

F3C

2.   Current status of JMH

With deterioration in budgetary conditions, enormous rental cost for NTT-East radio facilities and broadcasting services is a burden on other telecom plans. Furthermore nowadays it is more difficult and more expensive to maintain the current superannuated JMH system.
Therefore JMA has been considering the possibility of discontinuation of JMH broadcast, and seeking the more cost-effective and modern alternative since 1997.
For users over the land, there are alternatives such as providing charts via Internet, satellite multicast, GTS and so on. However for ship users, any reasonable solution has not been found so far. That is a problem.
3. Questionnaire about services for maritime meteorological information
JMA surveyed ship user requirements through a questionnaire in 2000 in order to improve the maritime meteorological services. The questionnaire includes 18 questions categorised into five. 243 received replies are summarised as graphs in Figures 2 to 6. The results of questions about JMH are shown in Figure 5. In addition, Table 2 shows a summary of various comments about JMH and related issues.
According to the survey, most of ship users think that JMH broadcast is useful for marine navigation. On the other hand, there are requirements of other improved and modern means such as Internet access to web servers and e-mail services (refer to NOAA marine product dissemination information “http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm“, especially NOAA FTPMAIL service “http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/ftpmail.txt” ).

Raymond Prestridge Weatherford, Texas, USA wrote also: Second, the Fukiushima Prefecture Fisheries chart you mention on "Last Info" I have received here. I would give the frequency as 8658 Khz, with a start time of 1004 UTC for the transmission. 90/576 is correct parameters. It seems to be broadcast everyday. Signal is good here, unfortunately there is some very near channel interference from a maritime utility station, which I believe is WLO. Earlier this morning22.559.0 JFC: Misaki Fisheries Yokosuka 0030 FAX 120/576 prob ship disress notice in Japanese, chart headed JFC FAX (12 Apr 04) (ML2)
Off air between xmissions, other charts copied this freq: 0140 120/576 - 6 pane chart, product unknown, poor copy
0310 90/576 - sea temp chart for NW Pacific 1030 90/576 - table, 130E-110W 12N-8S, barometer readings in inches Regards Murray Perth W AUS. Source WUN Add a new Discussion Forum to the Site Murray Lehmann, Australia received a UNID Fax station on 8657.5 KHz, using 90/576 at 10:00 UTC with a surface pressure chart (JMH) centred of Japan. This station is a fishery chart, and is from a fishery service in Fukiushima Prefecture. Revised the Radiofax Schedules with some links direct to the Fax Stations
Add the Radio fax schedule from USCG Kodiak W6ELProp predicts ionospheric (sky-wave) propagation between any two locations on the earth on frequencies between 3 and 30 MHz. There is no charge for W6ELProp when used for non-commercial purposesPete Stein, Liverpool have collected facsimile machines for some years and have specialised in Muirhead products because of their (comparative) ease of converting to the reception of weather satellite imagery. He has a couple of Muirhead photo fax machines one of which he keeping a K300 and one a K560 that will be skipped if no home is found for it soon.
The unit was manufactured around 1970 and cost the MOD some £17000. It was bought to receive images from warships during the Icelandic Cod Wars and was thankfully correctly de-commisioned after a few months until Pete Stein bought it .It has a complete selection of spares including a mechanism unit and manuals it would be a real shame to scrap it but no one in the UK wants it, ok it is a little big, but is unused and has been kept warm and dry for many years.
You are a 'long shot' but if you know anyone who would like it is free.

If you have interrest feel free to send me a mail mrensen@hffax.de

Look for some pictures of the Muirhead K300

K300 picture 1 (K300 Circuits 332Kb)
K300 picture 2 (K300 Front 163Kb)
K300 picture 3 (K300 Mechanic 349Kb)
K300 picture 4 (K300 Mechanic 295Kb)
K300 picture 5 (K300 Mechanic 338Kb)

Look for some pictures of the Muirhead K560

K560 picture 1 (K560 Cicuits 353Kb)
K560 picture 2 (K560 Electric 325Kb)
K560 picture 3 (K560 Front 211Kb)
K560 picture 4 (K560 Mechanic 296Kb)
K560 picture 5 (K560 Photopro 321Kb)
K560 picture 6 (K560 Psu 364Kb)

Add the latest Fax Schedule from Nairobi Meteo (5YE)
The mystery fax around 14690 kHz is a Basque organisation called AZTI
(http://www.azti.es/). This organisation receives HRPT images, study these images, and inform fisher boats where they can get better captures
Source: Angel Aparicio, Spain via Peter Thomson, UK. The last version of the open source NOAA wheather satellite decoder software from Thierry Leconte called atpdec now available.
Lot of small changes (bug fix, new AM demodulator front end, new false color generation code).
There is a windows binary version available too now ...
The home page is :
http://atpdec.sourceforge.net/
The download page is :
http://sourceforge.net/projects/atpdec
atpdec don't have any fancy graphical interface. So after dezipping the atpdec13win.zip file, you will need to open a command line windows, change working dir to the atpdec dir, and then type something like :
atpdec -i ac -d . c:\yourfile.wav and after a few seconds you will get your image in current working dir. Kristian K, Germany found a UNID Fax around 14.424.0 KHz tx daily at 08:20 UTC
Download a sample from this UNID station Details of the new Meteosat schedule (PDF and TXT formats) effective 28th November 2000 now available from the EUMETSAT website. Web Counter reports Visitors in since December 02 1995