Radio France weather reports - radio frequencies?

[Bajansailor]

I have just been trawling through the RFI website, trying to find the frequencies that they transmit the daily weather forecast for the North Atlantic, but my French is abysmally bad, and I cannot find anything.....
I am currently having a look at http://www.meteofrance.com/FR/mer/index.jsp
but this doesnt seem to be it - can anybody help please?

I am crewing for a friend here who is taking his Nicholson 35 back to England (he is moving to a new job in high latitudes) and we are leaving this evening for Antigua. We shall haul out at Jolly Harbour to paint the bottom, and if all goes to plan, we shall be heading north bound for Bermuda next Sunday.
I shall try to check in here again in a few days time once we have reached Antigua.

We have a Grundig SW radio receiver - I was going to take my ham radio (I am a licensed Bajan ham) but Sods Law, it has died....... however we shall also have a satphone for emergencies and an EPIRB, so we shall be pretty well covered.
And it will be nice to get away from telephones and email for a while!

 

[capnsensible]

Can't help on the radio but best wishes for a safe trip!!

 

[rickp]

You want this pdf which lists them all.

In case you're on something thats not PDF capable when you get to Antigua, Google cache has it munged into HTML.

Oh, and safe trip!

Cheers,
Rick

 

[Bajansailor]

Thank you!

I am not in a hurry (yet) for the RFI frequencies, as we shall not be heading north from Antigua for another 6 days, so I am hoping that some of the liveaboard Atlantic cruisers will know and revert before then.

We used to listen to the RFI forecast when we crossed from France to the Caribbean 14 years ago, but the frequencies have probably changed since then (and I cant remember them - I was just crewing on Stormy Weather then).

 

[philmarks]

Good luck with the trip Martin. Are calling in Azores? If so, what's your timeframe?

RFI 6175 Khz in Europe, that's all I can find, though I'm not sure if it's current.

 

[rickp]

Page 17 of the PDF says for 'Carte 1' - which is the 'Atlantic region' (and gives the region names too, so may be handy - see page 18):

6175 kHz in Europe,
15300 kHz, 15515 kHz, 17570 kHz and 21645 kHz in the Alantic at 11:30 UTC

Rick

 

[Bajansailor]

I'm still here.... have to leave soon though, as we want to leave before sunset, and it is 1530ish here already, and I am 40 mins from the harbour..... havent packed a bag yet either......

Thank you Phil and Rick for the above mentioned frequencies - I have just been printing off various sheets from the pdf, and it takes an age...... lots of good info there though!

Phil, if all goes to plan we should be arriving at the Azores around the end of May - will probably just have a few days there, as it would be nice to have a few days in England before I head south back to low latitudes with Virgin on the 21st June.

It will be a whistle-stop tour...... with a couple of days in Bermuda on the way as well hopefully.

 

[stephenh]

Zones : Atlantique nord-est et Atlantique nord tropical.
Fréquences utilisées selon les saisons : 6 175 kHz en Europe, 15 300 kHz, 15 515 kHz, 17 570 kHz et 21 645 kHz en Atlantique.
Horaire : 11h30 UTC.
Des communiqués techniques horaires indiquant des changements de fréquence sont diffusés entre H - 07 et H + 00.


Whoops same as rickp's...

Try FrankSingletons site - he has a French / English meteo vocab as well :

http://www.franksingleton.clara.net/

Good luck

 

[Foxy]

Hi Martin

Have a safe trip!

Where are you bound? Mail from azores when you know and I'll mail you my number.

Cheers!!!!!

 

[AndrewB]

[ QUOTE ]
Zones : Atlantique nord-est et Atlantique nord tropical. Fréquences utilisées selon les saisons : 6 175 kHz en Europe, 15 300 kHz, 15 515 kHz, 17 570 kHz et 21 645 kHz en Atlantique. Horaire : 11h30 UTC.
Des communiqués techniques horaires indiquant des changements de fréquence sont diffusés entre H - 07 et H + 00.

[/ QUOTE ]I don't think the published frequencies are actually quite correct. In 2005 we found it on 15300kHz and 15364kHz across the Atlantic, and starting at 11.40 UT daily rather than 11.30, though it was often up to 10 minutes late! You will need a map showing the location of the sea areas across the Atlantic. They are shown HERE. I have found these forecasts to be very reliable.

 

[Bajansailor]

Hello again everyone,

Slight change of plan (again) - onto plan 27F now...... we were getting too far behind schedule by this evening, so decided to leave at first light in the morning - but this meant that we would probably miss our slot at the Jolly haul out yard on Thursday. And we would be stuffed if that happened.
So, we are now hauling out here instead in the morning (Tuesday), quick bottom job, service seacocks, inspect rudder, and back in on Wednesday pm, and leave that evening for Antigua, where our 4th crew will join us.

Foxy, the (tentative) plan after the Azores is Falmouth to clear Customs (ETA approx 15th June), and then a potter along the coast (if there is time) to Brighton, stopping at (I hope) Dartmouth, Lymington and Gosport on the way.

 

[Foxy]

Bajan! Keep in touch and see you there!!!

 

[philmarks]

Good luck Martin - keep us posted. I will miss you in the Azores, but will catch up with you maybe in Lymington or Gosport.