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Stonehedge in reply to @Fox

Good digging.

I'm a little bit deeper into the hole I think. I've got a scanner on my desk and listen to ATC all day while I work :D

I think this is the first time I have admitted this. I also use my scanner to intercept voice and video signals from the ISS when it passes over.

I probably need help.

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Colonel_of_Truth in reply to @Stonehedge

You might know about this already but it's weather related so I'll post it here. You can use a shortwave radio and some software to download weather charts over RadioFax:
http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/multimode/fax.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_VcK1283Y0

Not sure how much it's still used in the age of satellite internet but it's for ships to get charts when they're in the middle of the ocean.

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Stonehedge in reply to @Colonel_of_Truth

I did not know that. That is awesome. Thanks for the tip. I've got everything I need to do that too. I'll post some results here when I have a chance to give it a go!

I've stumbled across those transmissions before but didn't bother looking up what they were.

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