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I thought it may be of interest to show some other decoding activities that I enjoy, especially during the winter months when the quality of the weather satellite images are poor due to reduced VIS and IR levels making contrast stretching difficult, although I do continue to observe and process them particularly the geostationary from Meteosat 7 and the relayed images from the other geostationary satellites.
Although I have been interested in decoding weather satellite signals for about 4 year I am a relative newcomer to the following interest but with the help of George Newport (the human frequency encyclopedia) I am becoming competent.
On the following pages I intend to show some SSTV , HFFAX, Airnav, and other images with brief descriptions of the hardware and software used for decoding and some useful links to the relevant sites from where you can obtain the required items.
I will be adding to this as I go, but for now I will start with AirNav and SkySpy
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I would guess that quite a few of you have listened to the airband and are very familiar with the information you hear, but have you considered decoding some of the information and plotting the aircrafts progress on your computer?
As I said at the beginning I will keep things brief just to give those interested a quick guide on how to proceed, I find the fun and excitement of a new hobby is the gathering of information and the understanding that comes with experience and hopefully the sharing of that information.
I thought it would be more informative if the maps had airports on, so I made a map of the UK and Ireland and added airports, if you want this map then click here: MAP WITH AIRPORTS
You will find two files zipped up to 13KB called Gbire2, if you extract them to your Airnav/Maps folder you can then open the map in AirNav,
I called it Gbire2 so it won't overwrite you original Gbire map.
If I make any more I will make them available, If anybody has any good Airnav maps then perhaps you might like to make them available for other enthusiast! there are maps available on the AirNav site
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AirNav Selcal Decoder, the new member
of AirNav family
is now available.
This software will allow you to decode Selcal transmissions
received by your HF airband receiver using your PC Sound
Card.
After upgrading to the new version 1 of JVComm32 (this is the version with automatic Geostationary animations) excellent program does so many other useful things like SSTV, HFFAX etc.
It was noticed that AirNav will no longer work, after a couple of days investigation I now have a fix for this problem.
The problem is with the BDE file, it appears that JVComm32 updates this file on installation and it is not compatible with AirNav, so you need to back up the existing BDE file just in case then delete the original then go into the AirNav in installation program and you will see a file called BDE this is a exe file or application, run this and it should fix the problem, JVComm32 will work with the AirNav version of BDE.
P.S This is the way I did it if you try it and you find other problems then tough!! although I have not detected any problems yet, their I go again spoke to soon I just spilt my coffee aver the keyboard.