[Lowfer] NAVAREA4 DX

[N8OOU]

Tom, I have use YAND for a long time now and am happy with it. In the 
last month I installed the newest release. I run it using Linux/Wine.

I use a PA0RDT mini whip about 20Ft above ground, which does ok but not 
spectacular. I just looked back in the YAND log and find area 4 and 12 
decodes. YAND id'd a couple area 1 logs, but the messages were garbled 
and the method that YAND uses to id, it could have been tricked.

In the early 90's I used to use the MFJ-1278 TNC to decode navtex. I 
liked it's feature to print messages only once. That was in the day 
before soundcard decoding software.

Good listening.

73   de   N8OOU - Mike Meek

On 02/09/2015 09:47 AM, Garry Hess wrote:
> Tom, not bad, especially since I think the Q station you decoded was
> area 12, Long Beach, CA, not Nova Scotia. I haven't detected area 4, Q
> for some time but CA comes in most nights with messages clearly related
> to the US west coast. Surprised Puerto Rico, area 4, station R didn't
> show up last night - it's usually on, but perhaps station N QRMed it. N
> nearly always runs well past its 10 minute slot. Other area 12 stations
> that are pretty regular are C in San Francisco and W in Astoria, OR. Got
> C here last night but not W. When propagation to the west is good area
> 12, stations D and H in BC decode and when they're really good stations
> O, J, and X decode (HI, AK, AK). To the south area 4, station H(2) in
> Curacao sometimes sneaks in there over the much stronger H(1) in
> Wiarton, ON. To decode Europe you need a very big antenna, to live along
> the Atlantic coast, or tune for 490 kHz Navtex. I haven't had much
> success except by doing the third choice. Stations there broadcast in
> the local languages (the 4 Canadian stations send messages in French),
> whereas 518 kHz broadcasts are supposed to be in English (area 15,
> station K in Chile sends Spanish instead for the few times I've copied it).
>
> Jay, W1VD pointed out long ago that the best Navtex decoder was SeaTTY.
> However, since then perhaps Yand has improved. The former must be
> purchased while the latter is free.
>