Mscan Meteo?

Well it just so happens I have the simple version that comes free with the Nasa HF3. So long ago now but I would say try the simple version first.

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Deaks
 
JVComms and SeaTTY are much better than Mscan and downloadable in demo form free and quite useable. The MScan demo is so intrusive it makes it unuseable and IMO deters anyone from buying rather than encourages. We have all 3 but SeaTTY is the best for me and I did register it, the current price is only $45. Download SeaTTY Here
 
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JVComms and SeaTTY are much better than Mscan and downloadable in demo form free and quite useable. The MScan demo is so intrusive it makes it unuseable and IMO deters anyone from buying rather than encourages. We have all 3 but SeaTTY is the best for me and I did register it, the current price is only $45. Download SeaTTY Here

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If this is a vote, I 100% agree!
 
I have just downloaded stty and have a target reciever (but no manual) do you connect the wefax socket on the target to the computer microphone socket with a stereo jack lead?
 
I bought the MScan Meteo software for weatherfax etc when I lived in Holland. I struggled and sweated but never managed to get it to work. In the end I rang the producer of the product and drove to his house, to get him to show me how to use it. It was useful for one cruise, in about 2000, I think. After that I began to use Internet stuff and found gribs to be so much quicker, easier and less troublesome that I gave up altogether with the MScan. I was using an Icom PCR1000 receiver for it but sold that about four years ago.
 
Mine runs from an ICOM M600 SSB transceiver via the external speaker socket and from memory (I did it a few years back) I joined the connections in one end of a stereo lead to make it mono, the laptop end goes into the Mic socket.
 
A bit of extra information on whichever you use it will need to be adjusted to receive the WFax pages and this can be easy or not depending on your luck! When you get set up try receiving RTTY broadcasts and Navtex which are easy and then the weather faxes. Usually the fax pics come through initially looking like a very old B&W telly with the horizontal hold gone, then when you follow the instructions to tweak the pics the lines will open up into a readable synoptic chart. If you get stuck at that stage get back on here and ask because the tweaking creates a 'factor' number that goes into the settings menu and if the original is too far out it may be hard to get going with the program's drag and adjust methods. This happened to me initially until someone kindly gave me an approximate 'factor' number to type in the settings menu from which a picture that could then be fine tuned arrived! I believe each computer is different in this setting dependent on it's own internal clock speed, but as a non-geek that could be rubbish...
 
Ta muchly Robin. Just saved me £100!

I'm waiting for the delivery of the SSB... The people I did my long range cert with were selling Mscanmeteo, and I wasn't sure whether to buy it - but I haven't now, on the basis of their thread (aren't these forums good!).

Once the SSB is installed, I'll have a go with SeaTTY. Watch this space...
 
Ok.. another thign has just cropped up

Just finalising my order for the kit. I had decided to but the PactorIIusb with bluetooth. Do you know if the SeaTTY will work over bluetooth? I gather mscan meteo doesnt work with the pactorIIusb bluetooth version
 
I may be wrong, and I can't look right now, but I don't think seatty will work with a modem at all. It depends whether the programme can look at a com port as well as the more usual sound card for its data and I am pretty sure that seatty cannot. Others can, but it is a while since I played with them.

There is however, no advantage of using a modem that I can see except that there is one less cable - you might as well just use sound out-sound in and skip the modem. I don't think the image quality is any different. I have a pactor II but use audio links for seatty.
 
yes. I don't know this set, but you connect sound out from the radio to sound in on the PC and use the PC's soundcard as the modem. That is the way that 95% of people get weather fax and rtty.
 
It is just a simple lead from the extension speaker socket on the radio to the microphone-in socket on the laptop. You need a suitable length of lead with the right sized jack plugs each end to match those on the ICOM and the laptop. However as someone reminded me earlier, usually the made up leads you can buy (PC World do them) will probably be stereo ones so you need to undo one plug and join the two (left + right) connections together inside it to make it a mono lead. You might get really lucky and find a mono lead. There are also jack plug adapters to make a small one into a bigger one and vice versa so be prepared for some lateral thinking and a visit to Maplins or PC World!
 
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