[TheList] Niwa weather sites

Mon Jun 25 17:39:21 AEST 2012

Cool as - I am yet to make it, but it looks kind-of like 8 small
dipoles all stacked and phased together. I'll let you know once I make
one (and get it working!!).

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 7:20 PM, DogSecurity - Richard
<richard at dogsecurity.co.nz> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
> Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Tab
>
>
>
> 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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