[Lowfer] Navtex 2/12 Overnight

n8tl n8tl at woh.rr.com
Thu Feb 12 11:05:08 EST 2015


Garry:

Sent you a copy of the message to the K3SIW email address. Looks like a 
mix of two stations???

Tom N8TL


On 02/12/2015 09:02 AM, Garry Hess wrote:
> Tom, did station E actually decode with "GNI" in the message? I notice 
> you didn't report station E, NMB, Savanah, GA in your area 4 list. 
> That's always so strong and long-winded here it masks GNI. I wonder if 
> YAND reported GNI when it was actually NMB.
>
> SeaTTY doesn't attempt to automatically identify sources. Instead, you 
> can figure out the source yourself by looking at the message, 
> especially the header which usually states in some sense what the 
> source is. But even without a header the text that follows makes it 
> clear if one is receiving the east coast, the west coast, Europe, etc.
>
> An interesting case is area 4, station H. There are actually two of 
> them. Not hard to distinguish them from area 12, H in Tofino, BC, but 
> you need to look at the messages themselves to separate H, Wiarton, ON 
> from H, Curacao. Incidentally, since Wiarton has resumed transmissions 
> decoded Curacao has bascially disappeared here due to overlap.



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