Oceanic Weather

[dpex]

Who is up to speed with some relatively low-cost, simple to operate, weather charting programme/service/dingus?

The requirement is for oceanic weather.

I have an Icom HF radio, if that helps.

Cheers
Dpex.

[Hud3]

Use the custom Google search function in my signature link to search for GRIB and "Weather Fax". You'll come up with a fair amount of info from past threads to get you started on the subject.

[estarzinger]

Hud, has pointed you in the right direction (grib and weather fax).

Since you have the radio let me narrow that down a bit further - if you can do e-mail with that radio look at saildocs and viewfax, combined they give you all the weather you could want for free. And you should have them anyway for planning a departure when you have shore internet (cyber cafe).

If you can't/don't do e-mail aboard then Mscan or Jvcom weatherfax are the answer for you.

Also almost every passage has a specific HF net you should listen to, as the most accurate weather info you will ever get is from a boat 200 miles up weather from you reporting his actual conditions.

[teneicm]

Originally Posted by estarzinger

Also almost every passage has a specific HF net you should listen to, as the most accurate weather info you will ever get is from a boat 200 miles up weather from you reporting his actual conditions.

Has anyone put together a "master" listing of all the HF net frequencies and times?

[Hud3]

Where's your area of interest? Most of the lists are regional. Here's one for the Caribbean, published by Caribbean Compass magazine.

[teneicm]

Thanks Hud! No particular geographic area- just a general interest in knowing where this sort of reference material lies.

[estarzinger]

Originally Posted by teneicm

Has anyone put together a "master" listing of all the HF net frequencies and times?

The main ones are listed here (maintained by the cruising club of america)

http://www.bethandevans.com/pdf/com_...s_nets_wxsched[1].pdf

[barnakiel]

US govt gives full listing of radiofax stations and timetables as a pdf file here:

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/rfax.pdf

With an SSB radio already in place you can invest into a modem and get e-mails (thus: radiofax and gribs) easily. The modem is not very cheap though.

b.