[TheList] Niwa weather sites

Mon Jun 25 14:35:04 AEST 2012

I have managed to receive Weather Satellite imagery 

http://trimble.archnetnz.com/1.jpg
http://trimble.archnetnz.com/2.jpg

With simple linux software, a scanner, and a sound card... 
But be keen to get any info you can on NIWA sites.. be very keen... 

On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 21:23:18 +1200, Mike Bailey <tahiini at gmail.com> wrote:
> It does seem NIWA has some frequencies in the Meteorological band, but
> to be honest the only sites I know of NIWA's that chirp back data to
> them use GSM.
> 
> However, the radiosondes I release, the data on those can be easily
> read with the right software, thats freely available online...
> 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 9:07 PM, GaryNZ <kaimaikid at xtra.co.nz> wrote:
>> Has anyone tried to grab and decode the data that streams from the NIWA
>> weather sites up and down the country? Looks like most broadcast on UHF
>> so
>> wouldn't be too hard to find the signal on a scanner and then poke into
>> the
>> pc via soundcard, the main thing I would imagine would be having the
>> right
>> software to decode it and use it.
>>
>> The other one that has my curiosity is the TransitNZ message boards -
>> imagine the fun that you could have with them....
>>
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