If you don't have a satphone or satinternet or a HF transceiver, a Tecsun might still be your best budget option to receive weather data (as in synoptic charts and similar) when you are offshore.
Could it be that your Tecsun does receive poor due no external antenna and missing ground?
Go sailing and you will see. The capabilities of the Tecsun are far below the old devices from Sony or Grundig as many people confirm. But anybody should make its own experience. A radio needs also other things and not only an antenna and ground.
Go sailing and you will see. The capabilities of the Tecsun are far below the old devices from Sony or Grundig as many people confirm. But anybody should make its own experience. A radio needs also other things and not only an antenna and ground.
I think we might be in a misunderstanding this time.
Even though I wrote Tecsun I meant all those HF receivers when I argued that I do not agree that this techno is obsolete for everyone.
Proper installation helps nevertheless on all of these units I'm pretty sure.
Surely there may be better units than the Tecsun around...
Dear Franziska, Can you make a thread about "Weatherfax Receivers and SSB Radios" and link it to this thread? I think it would be a very worthwhile discussion and may give others some ideas for how to receive good weatherfaxes very cheaply. I too would like to implement such a system, because Navfax is too expensive and does not result in as good information.
The RTLSDR.com V3 dongle is far superior to the SW radio's, and far less costly. Attached photo shows the arrangement I use, with the OpenCPNplugin receiving a weather fax from over 1,000 klms away within the past hour.
In the last century I had found the Degen DE1103 an improvement on the Sony 7600 due to it's far more refined BFO tuning dial.
Note: I have started a new thread Weatherfax_pi Recievers: RtlSDR + SSB radios
to move this discussion to that thread, so that Weatherfax_pi can be used solely for the plugin itself. Thanks very much for posting your relevant comments there and in the right thread.
Note: I have started a new thread Weatherfax_pi Recievers: RtlSDR + SSB radios
to move this discussion to that thread, so that Weatherfax_pi can be used solely for the plugin itself. Thanks very much for posting your relevant comments there and in the right thread.
I would dearly like to have all the BOM links working and updated, and if you can provide the data files for this, I will include them in the next release of weatherfax!
The data files are: WeatherfaxInternetRetrieval_<location>.xml
There are multiple files based on world location. These are found here.
C:\Users\<User>\AppData\Local\opencpn\plugins\weat herfax_pi\data or %localappdata%\Local\opencpn\plugins\weatherfax_pi \data
where the plugin was installed. For other OS locations, take a look at the Dev Manual page here Terminology and Installation Paths The file for BOM is most likely WeatherfaxInternetRetrieval_australia.xml
CoordinateSets.xml <-- Your personnal copy contains the coordinate changes you have made with the weatherfax wizard. For windows users this file is located C:\ProgramData\opencpn\plugins\weatherfax
We need to have Users updating these files regularly with all the local changes needed to display weatherfax easily.
Also we need updates to the weatherfax schedules around the world. Those have not been updated in a very long time.
Hi Rick,
I found the config files and updated a sample URL but it still won't load.
I cut the config file down to a single entry and it still wont work. The error message correctly displays the URL that points to the .png ... I'm stuck.
The images all seem to be there, but in a different format.
We need to get this all working again, by figuring out what the filenames are and then get the servers to work with the right urls.
I think that, for some reason, the methods used to download are being blocked as "unauthorized" by the servers, even though the message says there is not a working internet connection. - Is there a way to fix this problem?
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