Whilst anchored in Boyardville we had no internet access so we played around with the equipment we had brought for getting weather faxes transmitted on the SSB frequencies. We were successful, but the images were not very good, probably down to the aerial being an ordinary telescopic one extended by a loing piece of wire hung on a shroud and blowing around in the wind.
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| Equipment we used laid out on the chart table |
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| In action in the cockpit |
We also found that it is critical to keep the aerial away from all electrionic devices, in particular computers. The set up also requires patience as you have to ensure that it is all turned on at the right time and careful manual tuning was needed at the start of and during the broadcast. We are hoping that if we get a good quality external SSB aerial to plug in to the radio it will improve the picture quality sufficiently otherwise it will be a matter of abandoning it or getting a replacement radio with better tuning facilities.
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