Category: Weather

I’ve got a new weather station

Anemometer on my dipole centre post

In early 2012 I bought a cheap weather station from a major UK amateur radio supplier. It lasted a few months before failing. They replaced the broken parts, it failed again a while later and they replaced the parts again. When it failed for the third time, I got fed up with it so I […]

Receiving weather fax pictures on HF using fldigi

fldigi receiving a WEFAX image from the Northwood transmitter

A week or so ago I saw a weather fax (WEFAX) picture someone had posted that they’d captured on HF. This grabbed my attention because I like maps and I like to see things to do with the weather. I’d tried a couple of years ago to receive satellite weather pictures with little success (due […]

The weather forecast is as follows…

Last weekend when we did the work on the mast, we also put up a weather monitoring station here. I don’t have a real interest in the weather but I’m keen to know what the wind is doing and I’ve been looking at weather stations for some time.  I’ve worked out that the stations within […]