Freeware Weather Fax Decoder
HF Weather Fax for Android decodes weather fax 120/576 charts and satellite images through the microphone of your Android phone or tablet. Just hold your phone or tablet close to the speaker of your marine radio, sideband receiver or Ham Radio transceiver and start decoding weather fax images in minutes. HF Weather Fax is great to use on all seagoing sail and power vessels, sailboats, power boats, fishing boats and commercial vessels and a very affordable alternative to high prices weather fax decoders. HF Weather Fax for Android is the most portable way to decode weather charts and images. HF Weather Fax has the following features: - Manual mode / auto mode - Spectrum Analyzer for easy tuning on the receiver - Automatic start tone and end tone detection (in auto mode) - Synchronization at the beginning of the decoding (in auto mode) - Auto save recorded images to SD card (in auto mode) - Manual start column correction (in auto and manual mode) - Manual slant correction (in auto and manual mode) - Auto scroll mode - Touch screen image zooming - Black/white mode with threshold adjustment - History screen - Timers. Works pretty well for decode However the interface for looking at stored images is really klunky and has to be done while decoding.
Having to press back and then scroll all the way to the bottom over and over gets old fast. Wish I could just swipe through the images and also wish they were stored in such a way that Google photos automatically found them in the folder which would allow me to then swipe amongst them quickly yet still in a nice order. I also would prefer photo's ability to separate dates and what not more easily.
Works pretty well for decode However the interface for looking at stored images is really klunky and has to be done while decoding. Having to press back and then scroll all the way to the bottom over and over gets old fast. Wish I could just swipe through the images and also wish they were stored in such a way that Google photos automatically found them in the folder which would allow me to then swipe amongst them quickly yet still in a nice order. I also would prefer photo's ability to separate dates and what not more easily. A very useful weatherfax program. Works very well. One of the best weatherfax programs I have used to date.
JVcomm32, Eberhard Backeshoff, JVcomm32 is a multi mode program which can receive and decode weather charts, weather reports, NAVTEX and SYNOP messages, weather satellites, ham radio SSTV and FAX. NOAA weather satellite (FAX) transmissions are decoded into images in real time, and the images saved as. HF Weather Fax lets you receive marine weather radiofascimile transmissions on your Android device, using the audio from your HF marine radio. Just set it next to the radio's speaker or headphones, tune in a weather fax frequency, and watch the images come in.
Weather Fax Frequencies
Freeware Weather Fax Decoder Free
So quick and simple to use, just set to auto mode and place your phone/tablet next to the shortwave receivers speaker. The programs audio input is very sensitive, so you don't need to have the speakers output set too high. As already suggested, by using headphones or a small extension speaker and placing the phone/tablet's mic next to this, you can minimise any Radio Frequency Interference that the phone/tablet might cause. Even works well when monitoring one of the many internet based short wave radio receiving stations that have appeared recently.