[TheList] Niwa weather sites

Mon Jun 25 17:20:41 AEST 2012

Hi Mike,

If you were to make a couple, I certainly wouldn't complain if you were to sell one to me, depending on the price haha. 

Always been interested, but don't have the patience, and they're a little out of my price range to get one in from overseas. I've had limited success with my discone,  i'd assume alot better than a whip,  certainly nothing to write home about.   My  location doesn't help either,  so the satellites have to be fairly close to right overhead to get any decent results,  and because im down in a dip, I don't get much in terms of the satellite coming over the horizon. 

Cheers,

Z-master

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Mike Bailey <tahiini at gmail.com> wrote:

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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