HF radio weather forcasts

[Andrew_B]

Does anyone know where I can find out the frequencies and times to receive weather forcasts in southern Italy and the Ionians.
I have a HF receiver but I'm not geared up yet to receive Navtex or weatherfax to the PC.
I am in France at the moment where you can pickup the weather forcast in French and English on the VHF continuously all day for the entire south coast.
I am new to the HF receiver so any other useful frequencies to listen out on would be appreciated.

Set off Saturday and cant wait!

Andrew


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[snowleopard]

admiralty list of radio signals (sorry, can't remember which volume)

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[Bergman]

If you listen on 2182 they are announced.

Bit of a pain waiting for them but you only need do it once

Some stations are in McMillans but can't remember which and guess where the book is

Enjoy your trip

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[HenryB]

Andrew,

The Med Cruisers Net operate on 8122 KHz at 05.30 UTC and they read out the German forecast (in English) for the whole of the Med. It's a 5 day forecast for spot locations and I find it very useful for passage planning.

Once you get near the Ionian there is an Italian forecast that runs continuously on VHF - I don't remember the channel but it's easy to find.

There's also a Monaco Radio forecast on 8728 KHz at 07.15 for much of the Med. I'm not sure whether its local time or UTC. It's in French first then English.

The forecasts that get announced on 2182 are normally between 0630 and 0840 UTC with updates at a similar time in the evening.

Good sailing,

Henry


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[Birdseye]

med maritime mobile net is 7.085mc/s at 0700gmt (why are mc/s now mhz and gmt now zulu??) the italian mm net is 14.297 at 2000 gmt and the uk mm net (which mainly covers the med) is 14303 at 0800 and 1800 gmt. all these are ham nets so you will only be able to listen if you dont have a ham license, but the forecasts are good

you can get bbc world service timings off the web

good generAL SOURCE OF INFO is cruiser log website

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[ParaHandy]

Try Frank Singleton's site. He's the CA radio weatherman.
http://www.franksingleton.clara.net/index.html
Sadly, the ALR are so out of date to be worthless. They still have Bracknell (rather than Northwood) transmission times ....


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[aod]

Volume 3 £28

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[Roberto]

Andrew,
Apart from the ham nets, you can have official weather forecasts timetable running a query here

http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/pubs_j_rna_sections.html?rid=8555#query_ch3


Italian forecasts (guesscasts?) in english are continuous on channel 68



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