[TheList] Niwa weather sites

Mon Jun 25 14:47:35 AEST 2012

Yeah there's software that's available for Windows, too. I'm looking
at making a custom antenna for receiving those images - they're a
circular polarisation, so your standard ol' whip antenna won't be too
happy about it (hence the images being a bit fuzzy).

http://satellite.landcareresearch.co.nz/noaa/ has some images up, but
its a few weeks old.

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 4:35 PM, Chris Hodgetts <chris at archnetnz.com> wrote:
> 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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