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SSB/Ham Voice and Text

US Voice Broadcast Schedule:http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/home.htm#text

US Text Weather Broadcasts: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/marine/forecast.htm

US Lists of ham and SSB nets:
http://www.docksideradio.com/SSB%20Voice%20WX.htm
   Also:http://www.chasediversified.com/boatwatch/tableofmarinenets.htm
                                                                 

 

NAVTEX

US General Information: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/gmdss/navtex.htm

World wide schedule: http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/gmdss/NAVTEX-8c2.pdf

Bay of Biscay French NAVTEX -(in English):

www.meteo.fr/marine/naviweb/bulletins/bulletin_SMDSM_NVTX.html

Mediterranean Sea - West METEO-FRANCE (In English):
Combination of several French NAVTEX broadcasts - see schedule

http://weather.gmdss.org/navimail/GMDSS_METAREA3-W_INMARSAT

Mediterranean Sea - East  Greek Weather Service (In English):
HF NVTEX on 8424.0 at 0930 & 2130z

http://weather.gmdss.org/navimail/GMDSS_METAREA3-E_INMARSAT

Furuna Receiver(NX300): http://www.furuno.com

NAT INC Receivers(ICS-US) : http://www.nat-inc.com/products.htm

ICS Electronics Ltd: http://www.icselectronics.co.uk/icsnet/

RTTY

German RTTY Schedule:

http://www.dwd.de/de/wir/Geschaeftsfelder/Seeschifffahrt/Sendeplaene/e_telexpln.htm

NASA Clipper Receiver: http://www.seamarknunn.co.uk/catalog/items/item2377.htm

Internet URLs:

Med two day: http://www.dwd.de/de/WundK/W_aktuell/Seewetter/seewett_mm.html
English Channel to Gibraltar five day: http://www.dwd.de/de/WundK/W_aktuell/Seewetter/Streckenwetter.htm

HF/Fax

US NMF (Boston) Schedule: http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/marsh.shtml

US NMG (New Orleans) Schedule: http://weather.noaa.gov/fax/gulf.shtml

German Weather Fax: http://www.dwd.de/de/wir/Geschaeftsfelder/Seeschifffahrt/Sendeplaene/index.htm

Northwood UK Schedule: http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/tempusfugit/marine/fwoc.htm

Email - Short Range

Here are several links to services that might be used with ‘wireless’ devices:

Weather On Line: http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/

UK Met Office: http://www.met-office.gov.uk/leisuremarine/mobile.html

Turkey Met Office: http://www.meteor.gov.tr/indexmaster_eng.htm

Croatia Met Service: http://www.tel.hr/dhmz/prognoza/prognoze_en.html

Greek - U of Athens: http://forecast.uoa.gr/forecastnew.html

 

Email - Long Range and via Satellite

Airmail/Winlink: www.airmail2000.com

Sailmail: www.sailmail.com

NWS: http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/fax/ftpmail.txt

NWS Listing - Other Good starting points: (Click Here)

Galaxy Imarsat-C Terminal Software: http://www.airmail2000.com/nebula.htm

Quest Telecom: http://www.questele.com/

WLO Marine Radio: http://www.wloradio.com/

Nobeltec Weather: http://www.nobeltec.com/Weather/

RayTech Viewing Software: www.raytechonline.com

MaxSea and NavCenter: http://www.navcenter.com/

 

Weather Routers

Herb Hilgenberg South Bound II : http://www3.sympatico.ca/hehilgen/vax498.htm

Chris Parker: http://mwxc.com/

Bob Cook Ocean-Pro: http://www.ocean-pro.com/htmfiles/routing.htm

Locus Weather: http://www.locusweather.com

Bob Rice's Weather Window: http://www.powercruising.com/ricewxwin.html

The Weatherguy.com: http://www.weatherguy.com/

Commanders' Weather: http://www.commandersweather.com/

 

Winlink/Airmail

WinLink System: http://www.winlink.org/k4cjx/

AirMail Software: http://www.airmail2000.com/

Also see: "Onboard Email"

 

Satellite Fax Direct

Software: JV Com: http://www.jvcomm.de/

 

Other Great Weather Links and Sorces

Steve and Linda Dasdew's Weather Book: Mariner's Weather Handbook

Frank Singleton's Weather Site for Sailing. A really super site for even more information on European weather: http://www.franksingleton.clara.net/index.html

Martin Stubbs Weather Site.  Another good source for weather information.http://www.users.zetnet.co.uk/tempusfugit/marine/

Walter/G0wal s/v Our Kitty – Many more links and a great schedule. http://mysite.freeserve.com/g0wal

Marius Rensen’s HF-Fax site is the source for information on weather fax: http://www.hffax.de

ATOL’s Med Weather page: http://www.sto-p.com/atol/main.htm

Maritime Mobil Service Net: http://www.mmsn.org/weather/marinewx.html

 

Updated 3-13-2008

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