I am looking for suggestions for economic ways to receive noaa weather
charts on my laptop. the noaa broadcasts are on single side band.

help!

dingus wrote:
I am looking for suggestions for economic ways to receive noaa weather
charts on my laptop. the noaa broadcasts are on single side band.

help!

Is this for a marine application? If not I think you can just pull
then from the NOAA website.

I never have liked ssb.For one thing,there isn't anything on ssb worth
listening to.Unless you want to know how to fry eggs in a
skillet.Another thing,ssb sounds "muddy'',,, not worth the time and
effort to tune in ssb.Too Much Money For The Amount Of Bread!
cuhulin

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:00:17 -0500, wrote:

I never have liked ssb.For one thing,there isn't anything on ssb worth
listening to.Unless you want to know how to fry eggs in a
skillet.Another thing,ssb sounds "muddy'',,, not worth the time and
effort to tune in ssb.Too Much Money For The Amount Of Bread!
cuhulin

That makes absolutely no sense. Have you ever played with a real
radio? SSB can be incredibly clear and quiet.

David wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:00:17 -0500, wrote:

I never have liked ssb.For one thing,there isn't anything on ssb worth
listening to.Unless you want to know how to fry eggs in a
skillet.Another thing,ssb sounds "muddy'',,, not worth the time and
effort to tune in ssb.Too Much Money For The Amount Of Bread!
cuhulin

That makes absolutely no sense. Have you ever played with a real
radio? SSB can be incredibly clear and quiet.

I agree. A good radio with sufficiently fine tuning can make ssb
transmissions crystal clear. For a real aural treat catch one of the
nets that sends in AM.

In article .com,
"John S." wrote:

David wrote:
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 11:00:17 -0500, wrote:

I never have liked ssb.For one thing,there isn't anything on ssb
worth listening to.Unless you want to know how to fry eggs in a
skillet.Another thing,ssb sounds "muddy'',,, not worth the time
and effort to tune in ssb.Too Much Money For The Amount Of Bread!

That makes absolutely no sense. Have you ever played with a real
radio? SSB can be incredibly clear and quiet.

I agree. A good radio with sufficiently fine tuning can make ssb
transmissions crystal clear. For a real aural treat catch one of the
nets that sends in AM.

Use the slow AGC selection on the radio if it has one to quiet the
noise between the words people speak on sideband.

Careful main tuning (VFO), passband tuning and filter selection will
cause the sound quality to be very good and not muddy.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

On 15 Apr 2006 08:03:25 -0700, "dingus" wrote:

I am looking for suggestions for economic ways to receive noaa weather
charts on my laptop. the noaa broadcasts are on single side band.

You don't need a modem, you can use your computer's sound hardware if
it has a line input. For software, look for "wxsat". It was mainly
written for satellite use but it has a setting for shortwave
broadcasts. Hint: the shortwave setting is named "FM", because it
refers to the modulation of the video onto the audio rather than the
audio onto the RF.

ssb Sucks.
cuhulin

SSB is fine if you have a small step size in the VFO (if digital), and
a stable frequency source.

I have no evidence to back this up, but AFN seems to be wider bandwidth
SSB than what is normally used in comminications. I generally use a
4Khz filter on AFN as it sounds better.


wrote:
ssb Sucks.
cuhulin

My old Panasonic RF-600 (I think it's a 600,[[it is stashed over there
on the floor with a bunch of my other old radios]] behind my old
antique pump organ that I use for my tv stand for my two tv sets) radio
that I bought brand new back in the 1980's at a local Jackson Service
Merchandise store has a BFO on it.What a piece of junk that radio is! It
drifts like crazy and it wont even turn on unless I shove a little wedge
between the earphone jack and the plastic cabinet.JUNK! I wish I had
never wasted my money on that piece of JUNK! radio.Panasonic = JUNK!
cuhulin