NAVTEX Idea [DX log mode]

edited February 2018 in Problems Now Fixed
I see that receiving NAVTEX serves 2 things. The practical sense of what is the WX and I already used that to monitor Grayson but also for LWDX, which is less about content and more for who is the station. For latter, it would be handy to have a check-box option to only display the lines containing ZCZC as those lines give the station ID. 

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  • jksjks
    edited January 2018
    That a really good idea. Added to the list.

    KA7UWA2ZKD
  • Thanks for DX mode, works great!!
  • I am curious who else may have tried the DX mode, particularly on 518 KHz. 

  • Hi I have tried the DX mode on 518 KHz
    18 Jan 2018 21:31:22 UTC | ZCZC JB03 | 171730 UTC JAN QI  VARNA RADIO    GALE AND SEA WARNING    SYNOPTIC SITUATION AT  ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:32:22 UTC | ZCZC JB02 | 161800 UTC JAN 18 VARNA RADIO ON BEHALF OF ROMANIA CONSTANTA RADIO NEAR G ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:33:33 UTC | ZCZC JE06 | 181800 UTC JAN 18 VARNA RADIO ON BEHALF OF ROMANIA FORECAST FOR THE WESTERN ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:36:31 UTC | ZCZC JA04 | 010530 UTC JAN 18 VARNA RADIO NAVWARN 004/18 REGION: 43 32,66N 028 36,35E ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:37:15 UTC | ZCZC JA05 | 010530 UTC JAN 18 VARNA RADIO NAVWARN 005/18 STARBOARD-HAND LATERAL GREEN L ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:37:47 UTC | ZCZC JA3 | 0105 JAN 18 VARNA RADIO NAVWARN 083/18 POMORIJSEE LIGHT BEACON NR4990 42 3 ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:38:12 UTC | ZCZC JA01 | 010530 UTC JAN 18 VARNA RADIO NAVWARN TOPHONE OF TE LIGHTHOUSE SVETI VAN: ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:38:40 UTC | ZCZC JA56 | 211330 UTC DEC 17 VARNA RA ON BEHALF OF ROMNOKKRCBKX)9#4&SCLNMON PLBCMLMCLC/(.&& ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:40:22 UTC | ZCZC KA30 | DOVER - TSS ZC2 BUOY IS MISSING POSITION(WGS 84): 50-58N 001-41E. INITIAL ...
    18 Jan 2018 21:40:54 UTC | ZCZC KA29 | KA 29 WIGHT - DOVER - THAMES SAILORS ARE ADVISED THAT UNDERWATER OPERATIONS ...
    I miss the frequency in each line to see if I have changed frequency....
    and also the possibility to save the  data to a file for analyzing when you get up the next day ;-) I know that I can copy and paste data from the browser window.
    Regards
    Bjarne
    OZ1AEF
  • edited January 2018
    Seems to work just fine.
    19 Jan 2018 00:37:22 UTC | ZCZC CA65 | SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO BNM SF-0015-18 CA-SUISUN BAY 1. SUISUN BAY CHAN LB 30 ( ...
    19 Jan 2018 00:38:06 UTC | ZCZC CA64 | SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO BNM SF-0014-18 CA-SUISUN BAY 1. SUISUN BAY CHAN LB 30 ( ...
    19 Jan 2018 00:38:51 UTC | ZCZC CA99 | DGPS BNM 493-17 CAPE MENDOCINO, CA 1. DGPS BROADCAST SITE WILL BE UNUSABLE ...
    19 Jan 2018 00:39:43 UTC | ZCZC CA52 | SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO BNM SF-0013-18 CA-SUISON BAY 1. SACRAMENTO DEEP WATER C ...
    19 Jan 2018 00:40:27 UTC | ZCZC CA20 | SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO BNM SF-0011-18 CA-SACRAMENTO RIVER DEEP WATER CHAN 1. R ...
    19 Jan 2018 00:41:16 UTC | ZCZC CA63 | SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO BNM SF-0016-18 CA-SACRAMENTO RIVER DEEP WATER CHAN 1. R ...
    19 Jan 2018 00:42:03 UTC | ZCZC CA86 | SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO BNM SF-0008-18 CA-SAN FRANCISCO BAY 1. YERBA BUENA ISLA ...
    19 Jan 2018 00:42:50 UTC | ZCZC CA14 | SF-0010-18//A// BROADCAST AT C SECTOR SAN FRANCISCO BNM SF-0010-18 CA-OAKL ...

    Not being into Navtex DX, I'm not sure what enhancements make sense.
    Ron
    KA7U
  • I have been logging a lot of Europe from here in WNY
    In the last 2 days, NAVAREA III Stations: C,G,H,I,U,X

  • Hi All,

    It works well on the MF Navtex frequencies, but not on the HF frequencies where the message format seems to be different ?

    I also don't know much about Navtex, I'm currently decoding South America and China, but I don't see any ZCZC strings, and I don't anything else that is obvious that could be used as a trigger for the DX mode on these frequencies. 


    e.g.

    REPUBLICA ARGENTINA A REPUB ORIENTAL DEL URUGUAUYY
    RIO DE LA PLATA INTERIOR, INTERMEDIO Y EXTERIOR
    CARTAS H-101 H-118 H-117 H-116 H-113 H-156
    ENC AR530010 AR420060 AR401560 AR 420010 AR20113 AR420020 
              AR420030 AR420040 AR420050 AR420090 
    REGATA LARGA DISTANCIA, CIRCUITO ATLANTICO SUR 2018
    BUENOS AIRES (ARA P DEL ESTE (UY). ENTRE 13 ENE Y 20 ENE
    PARTIENDO: 13 ENE, 1200 DESDE BUENOS AIRES.
    ARRIBANDO: 14 1200 Y 151200 A PUNTA DEL ESTE.
    POR LA DIFERENCIA EN LAS EMBARCACIONES PARTICIPANTES.ES
    DEL PUERTO DE PUNTA DEL ESTE.
    PARTICIPAN: 50 EMBARCACIONES.
    CANCELA ESTE MENSAJE 20HZGMPP 18.


    Regards,

    Martin - G8JNJ


  • I am doubting I got the area III stuff right.  Having a way to hard log would help!
  • Browser javascript is not allowed to write files on the local computer. About the best I could do is transfer the window contents from the page back to the Beagle, create a file there and then create a download link on the control panel. You would then download the text file and do a browser "save as" or whatever the default browser action is for text files. The is similar to what is done for the .png images of the FAX extension. Except there the image is created on the Beagle to begin with. So it seems that copy/paste is about the same amount of work for text.

  • doesn't java have LocalStorage?
  • The browser has all kinds of app storage mechanisms. But none of them are intended to be accessible outside the browser because of security problems. Chrome used to have a "file system" API, but other browsers decided not to implement it and consideration was dropped by the W3C. There are browser plugins that allow local file access, but I'm not going to do that because requiring user to install a browser plugin completely violates the Kiwi policy of "no software installation". Anyway, these plugins don't exist uniformly across all browsers which is even worse (support nightmare).

    Something I'd like to know is if you can open a cross-document window in the same browser session that uses a "file://..." URL and pass data to it. Probably not I would guess. I bet you get a cross-domain/cross-origin access violation. The Kiwi server already plays some games getting around cross-origin problems. But the origin target is a domain URL and not a file on the local file system.

    More than you want to read:

  • how about a way for local user to create log on BBG  and access via admin panel
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