490 Navtex

[Budgie]

Has anyone received a UK Navtex 490 broadcast in the last few days?

 

[ParaHandy]

Yes. You don't mention 518khz so are you receiving those broadcasts but not 490khz?

 

[toad]

Only had the set 3 weeks and only had French on 490

 

[burgundyben]

Have you got all the stations that you are within range of turned on? My experience of navtex is very limited but I had a load of trouble trying to get it set up to print the messages that I wanted and not a whole load of other stuff.

I think if you are on the move, you might loose stations and not be set to pick up the ones you get within range of?

Er, all this may be a laod of rubbish, can anyone put me right?



burgundyben, coolest of men, by all I'm called, cool burgundyben.

 

[salamicollie]

Was getting Port Patrick OK at the weekend but not Cullercoats (normally get both)

 

[JerryHawkins]

Yes!

Get the Niton broadcasts more often than not - miss a few now and then, but OK last few days. Only problem I am having is that I can't seem to turn off Monsanto which has only started popping up in the last few weeks!

I'm in Plymouth and have an ICS Nav6 plus

Cheers,

Jerry

 

[Budgie]

Re: Yes!

Thanks for info one and all.
I am receiving 518 fine, but the only 490 I have received during the last couple of weeks has been some rather garbled French - I check the boat every few days.
I have a newish Nav 6 plus which was working OK, and which still seems to be correctly setup, but I am no longer receiving Portpatrick (I am based in Largs, Scotland).

 

[ParaHandy]

Re: Yes!

Aaah! well...none the wiser actually. If you receive 518, you should receive 490 - comes out the same spout. Could look at Frank Singleton's site which helped me (and then send e-mail to bod named Lt Cdr Chris Pink at Hydrographers if everything goes pear shaped)
http://www.franksingleton.clara.net/navtex.html

 

[Budgie]

Re: 490

Thanks. 490 seem to have been working OK since Moday.