Complete Information for WeatherStation Forming the core of OCENS popular earth, ocean, & weather monitoring software & software/hardware systems, WeatherStation lets you harness the information resources of HF radio facsimile broadcasts and the World Wide Web. If you’re planning tomorrow’s activities, making decision’s during today’s trip, or just enjoy weather watching, WeatherStation brings to you the weather information you’ve got to have. HF Radio facsimile Access Now sound card compatible Plug your HF receiver or SSB into your computers sound card and WeatherStation will convert audio signals into a digital graphic your computer can recognize and WeatherStation’s feature-packed software can use. You activate radiofax capture with one –button click from the Weatherfax menu. WeatherStation listens for the start tone associated with fax broadcasts. Once activated, lines of the chart are posted to your computer screen until the fax stop tone is heard. Charts are auto-saved upon stop tone broadcast. Of course, WeatherStation contains a built-in schedule of radiofax broadcast stations around the world. WeatherStation reports the broadcast station, chart types, broadcast times and frequencies the charts will be broadcast on. From time to time, signal-to-noise ratios from your HF radio may deteriorate to the extent that start tone integrity may not be high enough to kick start auto-capture. Or you may attempt a capture after a start tone has already been broadcast. In either case, WeatherStation allows you to manually override auto-start and capture charts regardless of tone quality. Internet Access Because of cost, radiofax broadcasts are not as ubiquitous as they once were. Station shut downs now leave large areas of the Indian Ocean, South Atlantic, Caribbean and South Pacific out of range of dependable fax coverage. WeatherStation allows you quick and easy access to all of the weatherfax charts via the Internet. How does the mobile user take advantage of WeatherStation? WeatherStation’s built in Weather Chart library contains hyperlinks to web-based weather charts from around the world. Just click on the chart of interest to you and WeatherStation can connect to and download it immediately. Pre-trip planning is a snap with the latest weather charts delivered to your computer in moments. WeatherStation even allows you to create your own Personal Library of the weather charts you will need on a day-to-day basis. Just search the Main Library, select and save. Then each time you access your Personal Library; one click commences auto-download of one or more charts to your computer. WeatherStation also includes OCENS WeatherNet wireless weather-on-demand service for accessing and downloading Aviation, Graphical Buoy Charts, Buoy Text, GRIB Data, Ice charts, Nexrad radar imagery, Sea surface temps, currents, sea height charts, Satellite Imagery, Text, NavTex, High seas forcasts, Weather Charts (WeFax), and more, all available cost-effectively over your satcom, cellular or HF Pactor III systems. See WeatherNet for more details. Chart Processing No other software package comes close to offering the range of chart processing and analysis tools available in WeatherStation. Geo-reference: Unavailable in any other weatherfax package, WeatherStation’s geo-reference tool allows you to create an interactive map layer on top of your weather charts. When you’ve completed the two-step process, view your present position on the chart and point your cursor to any feature within it. Immediately see the features latitude and longitude and its bearing and distance from your position. Waypoint and Route Plotting: Once a chart is geo-referenced WeatherStation also allows you to plot waypoints and routes on the acquired chart. Now you can create routes in which critical weather information is implicit. Weather Information is Critical You won’t find a better weather package. Much of the power of WeatherStation is its ability to let you see what is happening, not guess at what might be occurring. WeatherStation does this by putting a wide array of weather information together for you, then giving you specific tools to help you draw conclusions from the acquired material. Nobody else does it this way. WeatherStation puts the information you need, at your fingertips. Regardless of whether you choose WeatherStation or a competitor’s product, don’t neglect your weather information needs. It could save your life!