[GreenKeys] Re: GB> very off topic... hf weather fax decoding software?

[jzcolt at verizon.net]

Back in the late 80's there was a fellow named Schwittek, or close to that.  He was a ham, lived in FL, 

and had a son, lived in Vt.  They published WEFAX code, ran on early PCs.

Son's name was Bill (William), not a ham.  Bill is probably in his late 60s by now, his dad must be > 

80.  Bill worked for IBM, probably got one of the first IBM PCs.

He still shows up in a few places on the web, but I can't seem to trace him right now.

A more dilligent search would probably find him.  I'm only finding photo credits (pictures of airplanes) 

and IEEE papers.

Anyway, the Schwittek code would certainly run on an older PC.  I remember however that if you recorded 

the signal from the sattelite, you needed to do it with a digital tape system (now you would use a hard 

drive) if you wanted the time alignment for each sweep to be good, otherwize the images got a bit wavy.  

The error in an analog cassette tape was enough to make it look funny.



JC
NV1Y



From: kf6pqt <kf6pqt at gmail.com>
Date: 2007/12/07 Fri PM 01:28:13 CST
To: glowbugs at piobaire.mines.uidaho.edu, greenkeys at mailman.qth.net
Subject: GB> very off topic... hf weather fax decoding software?

I know Black Cat Systems' Multimode for the mac can do it. Any others,
especially freeware, and stuff that runs well on older, slower PC's?

I have 'em all here, Dos, 2000, XP, Mac, Linux... except Vista, I got
rid of that!

Thanks,
Jason kf6pqt

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