Through my long journey to catalogue the remaining active radiofax stations, there has been a few rather elusive stations. Part of this category is ZSJ in Cape Naval, South Africa which I’ve never been able to hear and was doubtful...

It’s not often that we see floppy disks around nowadays, but this week proved to be an exception with a donation of a paper envelope of disks, but not just any disks. The Troublemaker: Unistat V4.53 In this case, it...

In the global marketplace that is the world of internet shopping, being able to buy things overseas has become a lot easier. Rather than having to take a holiday to another country and carry the items back, someone online is...

It looks like I haven’t been entirely fortunate with Cowin products. After the HE5A failed, I reverted to using the E7 Pro for my day-to-day commuting needs. Just this week, the E7 Pro failed as well, which doesn’t do much...

The past few weeks have been quite busy with radiofax monitoring – a small project inspired by the existence of KiwiSDRs and WebSDRs and a desire to preserve what little “analog” utility stations we might have left on the HF/shortwave...

Since we’re probably on the “tail-end” of the radiofax technological lifecycle, I’ve actually been quietly hoping to receive something from Russia as on historical information, it seems they’ve been rather unique. While most stations today have settled on 120LPM with...

Having already pursued the majority of the rather “well known” fax stations, I decided to move along and try my luck at some of the lesser-known stations with spotty data as seen from some older listings and SWL schedule sites....

When it comes to radiofax, you might be wondering why I’ve left South Korea’s HLL2 station towards the end. The reason? It’s actually not an easy station to receive well. As many utility stations are established on a frequency and...

It’s an extremely busy weekend for me, but still, there’s some time to put up a post about another radiofax station or two. In fact, I’ve put in a lot more effort to try and determine the “whereabouts” of some...

Another radiofax posting to round out my Sunday and what a surprise – it’s another NWS/NOAA family station. NMF broadcasts from Boston, Massachusetts in the USA operating on three of four frequencies at any time. Like other NWS/NOAA network stations,...

Continuing on the list of active stations I have yet to make a post about, the NOJ station in Kodiak, Alaska operated by National Weather Service/National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States of America has been a difficult...

If you’re the type to have a few older “semi-retro” computers lying about, you’ve probably got a few old interfaces that are becoming difficult to use. For floppy drives, there are USB-floppy emulators, for PCI you can potentially fit a...

With my recent upgrade to 4K monitors, I’ve come to realise that VGA has (at long last) become obsolete. There are no analog interfaces at all on my new monitors – so how am I going to connect my vintage...

Last weekend was the Australia Day long weekend, so aside from chasing Shortwave Radiogram broadcasts and posting radiofax galleries, I also decided to build something I thought was rather interesting. In the past, I remember vaguely seeing articles about how...

Given that the United States of America’s National Weather Service (NWS) / National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) operate a large number of the remaining radiofax stations, it’s about time I covered another from the family. Previously, I covered KVM70...

The triplet of stations from Germany (DDH3/DDK3/DDK6) are distinguished in the radiofax field. They operate on a +/-425Hz shift (whereas others operate on +/-400Hz), and they have the highest transmission powers – 10kW for DDH3 and 20kW for DDK3/DDK6. This...

It’s been a very radiofax-centric long weekend – rest assured, I did do other things, I just didn’t get around to posting about it. But even though I haven’t finished surveying all the active stations and I haven’t yet put...

When people talk about Hawaii, the first thing they think of is probably a beach-side holiday. But for me, I think of the US time station WWVH and the KVM70 radiofax transmissions. Strange, I know … I must get that...

The Australia Day long weekend has been a good excuse to get back to blogging about various “random” things with radiofax being the topic of choice this weekend. I had fond memories of an unexpected DX surprise one night in...

If you’re like me and only recently discovered the beauty of KiwiSDR, you might have encountered a few niggles with monitoring transmissions over longer periods in the form of time-outs. One of the more annoying time-outs is the inactivity time-out...

Earlier today, my Dad requested some assistance with his J.Burrows Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Combo that was purchased from Officeworks. It was a rather low-cost set, not one I would have chosen myself, but after the batteries in the keyboard...

Another one of our friendly “neighbour” radiofax stations is HSW64 from Thailand. This station is listed in the NWS/NOAA radiofax schedules as 7395kHz which is its SSB tuning frequency – the centre frequency is actually 1.9kHz above this. This is...

Onto another radiofax station I have never heard before. CBV and CBM are a pair of stations in Chile. They operate two separate schedules but seemingly broadcast the same sorts of charts covering the same areas, but at different times....

The radiofax station JMH, JMH2 and JMH4 is one of the nearby “powerhouses”, sending charts almost continually around the clock on three frequencies (3622.5kHz, 7795kHz and 13988.5kHz). It’s often heard in Australia, albeit I often receive it very “noisily” and...

Further continuing along my survey of radiofax systems, I thought it would be a good idea to check on one of our nearest neighbours, New Zealand. In the past, I have received their service from home with regularity, although sometimes...