[BARC-List] [Fwd: HF Fax]

[Tom Kinahan]

On the subject of HF Fax, this came by yesterday on the Winlink System.

-Tom N1CPE

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To: N0KTA, N0MOE, N0MR, N0OBG, N0RQ, N0VX, N0WGA, N0XFD, N1AOK, N1BDF, 
N1BJA, N1CLV, N1CPE, N1DOT, N1ELQ, N1EMP, N1EO, N1EVG, N1FL
Subject: User Notice
Date: 09 May 2007 16:51:00 -0000
From: SYSTEM

User Notice, May 9, 2007

The Coast Guard is requesting public comment on the need to continue 
providing high frequency (HF) radio broadcasts of weather forecasts and 
warnings. Public comment is necessary in order to assess the demand for 
the HF radio broadcasts of weather forecasts in each of three forms: (1) 
Radiofacsimile; (2) voice; and, (3) Simplex Teletype Over Radio (SITOR), 
also known as Narrow Band Direct Printing (NBDP). The infrastructure 
necessary to provide these services has exceeded its life expectancy; the
equipment is no longer manufactured, repairs are difficult to 
accomplish, and spare parts generally are not available. Because of the 
very significant costs involved to continue these specific HF radio 
services, the Coast Guard requires information on the extent to which 
these services are used by the public and what alternative services are 
being used or are available to obtain weather forecasts and warnings. 
DATES: Comments and related material must reach the Docket Management 
Facility on or before
August 24, 2007.

Please read the docket in its entirety at:

http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/marcomms/high_frequency/FR_HF_WX_Notice.pdf

Responses should be submitted electronically at:

http://dms.dot.gov/

v/r

ITC Eric S. Simmons
KB6YNO, W2AIR/6 & NNN0NPO
Communications Area Master Station Pacific (CAMSPAC)
Point Reyes Station, California
United States Coast Guard
WWW Internet: http://www.uscg.mil/pacarea/camspac/index.htm
CG Intranet: http://cgweb.pacarea.uscg.mil/camspac/
mailto:eric.s.simmons at uscg.mil
Tel:  (415) 669-2198
Fax:  (415) 669-2072
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