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- Page 1 DESIGNED AND MANUFACTURED IN ENGLAND Weatherman Radiotelex Receiver MARINE INSTRUMENTS NASA MARINE Ltd. BOULTON ROAD RoHS STEVENAGE 2002/95/EC HERTS SG1 4QG ENGLAND (01438) 354033...
- Page 3 English Channel, to the North Atlantic and Baltic Seas. There is a daily schedule of times, frequencies and areas and Weatherman can easily be set up to receive all this information, or to record only the areas and data to suit the user’s requirements.
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Page 4: Installing The Antenna
(area centre) for each of these is given in the section entitled Hamburg Weather Forecast Areas and Co-ordinates. When you are familiar with how Weatherman operates, you will appreciate that this service gives you plenty of weather information for all times and for all quoted areas. -
Page 5: Installing The Display
Push the moulded antenna plug into its socket on the rear of the receiver. USING THE WEATHERMAN Switching on power to the Weatherman performs an internal reset, turns on the backlight and goes to the Standby screen. From this screen: -... - Page 6 Releasing CTRL will store the setting. PROGRAMMING From the Standby screen select the Programming screen (Long press on ENTER key). The Weatherman allows the following groups of messages to be recorded or ignored. Reports - North & Baltic Sea F’cast -...
- Page 7 FE?? medium range forecast (5 day) FQ?? short range forecast (2 day) NO?? notes SI?? synoptic surface observations at 0300, 0900, 1500, 2100 UTC SM?? synoptic surface observations at 0000, 0600, 1200, 1800 UTC SS?? reports from mobile stations SX?? various station reports WO?? various weather warnings...
- Page 8 GROUPS of 5 figures with a space in between. This is the coded, abbreviated form of data being sent to and fro between the transmitter and weather ships and other reporting stations. It cannot be decoded by Weatherman so is ignored.
- Page 9 NB Whilst DDH9 is substantially in German language much of it can be understood by English speakers. In practice the receiver can be left on the spectrum screen. Recording will take place as normal and frequency selection can be made at any time to select the best signal.
- Page 10 North Atlantic North Sea 52.1N German Bight 15.7W 54.7N 5.7E AREA 51 60.0N Humber 15.0W 53.3N 2.3E Pentl-Farvel 1 59.0N Thames 21.7W 51.6N 2.2E Pentl-Farvel2 60.5N Dogger 31.2W 55.2N 2.2E Pentl-Farvel3 58.1N 43.5W Forties 57.1N 1.7E Cape Farvel 61.2N Fisher 38.5W 57.4N 5.3E SE Greenland...
- Page 11 RTT BROADCAST FOR SHIPPING Power Class of emission Frequency 1 kW 11039 kHz DDH 9 50 Baud 05.30 - 22.00 UTC + / - 225 Hz DDK 2 4583 kHz 1 kW 50 Baud 00.00 - 24.00 UTC + / - 225 Hz 1 kW 50 Baud + / - 225 Hz...
- Page 12 SIVX41-48 ----- SHIP (FM 13- XI Ext.), See 02.00 UTC 04.40 EDZW 0300 Warnings for the sea areas (in German / English). ----- 05.00 WODL45 See 00.00 UTC EDZW 0300 FQEN50 ----- 05.05 Weather report North Sea and Baltic Sea (in German), EDZW 0500 see 00.05 UTC Navigational warnings for North Sea, Baltic Sea and...
- Page 13 SSVX40-42 ----- BUOY (FM 13-XI Ext.), Coded buoy reports from North 08.15 EDZW 0600 Polar Sea and Atlantic Weather report Western European Sea (in German). ----- 08.20 Route Southern Ireland - Area Canarias, Weather situation FQEW57 and time series forecast for 2 days EDZW 0600 ----- FQEN70...
- Page 14 10.35 Medium range weather report Baltic Sea (in German), FEBQ52 ----- see 03.30 UTC (Progr. 1) EDZW 0600 ----- ----- FEEN53 11.00 Medium range weather report North Sea (in German), EDZW 0600 see 03.55 UTC (Progr. 1) NODL61 ----- 11.10 Notices (in English) EDZW 0800 FQMM79...
- Page 15 FQMM58 ----- 14.40 Repetition weather report Western Mediterranean Sea EDZW 0600 (in German), see 08.40 UTC Weather report German North Sea and Baltic Sea coast FQEN71 ----- 14.50 (in English), see 00.20 UTC EDZW 1400 Warnings for the sea areas (in German / English), WODL45 15.00 15.00...
- Page 16 17.50 ----- Weather report German North Sea and Baltic Sea coast FQEN71 (in English), see 00.20 UTC EDZW 1700 Warnings for the sea areas (in German / English), 18.00 18.00 WODL45 see 00.00 UTC EDZW 1800 ----- Weather report North Sea and Baltic Sea (in German), 18.05 FQEN50 see 05.05 UTC...
- Page 17 ----- Weather report North Atlantic (in English), see 09.30 UTC 21.30 FQNT76 EDZW 1800 21.30 ----- Weather report Eastern Mediterranean Sea (in German), FQMM59 see 09.30 UTC EDZW 1800 ----- 21.55 Weather report Western European Sea (in English), FQEW77 see 09.55 UTC EDZW 1800 22.15 -----...
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Page 20: Limited Warranty
Prior to unpacking this instrument read and fully understand the installation instructions. Only proceed with the installation if you are competent to do so. Nasa Marine Ltd. will not accept any responsibility for injury or damage caused by, during or as a result of the installation of this product.