How to select FACSIMILE STATIONS from ALRS

Today we will learn about weather fax that's a fax email receiver on board which will give you the weather fax so to get the weather fax you will have to select the station as well as you will have to have that weather fax switched on at the time of transmission to find out which station is transmitting and what is the time of transmission you will have to refer to ALRS volume 3 volume 3 that is NP 283. NP 283 is of two parts and the type number the parts you can either get it from the admirality chart catalog or since it is two parts on the after the book the second part will be shown now the ship is currently sailing in the America's Far East and the Oceania so we will be using this book once you turn to the contents weather fax email or radio fax email is in page number 6 1 so we will go to page number 6 1 this shows you the radio fax email it's an introduction and it will show you what all things are there in this book and how to read it I'll basically explain it to you this these are the symbols that are going to appear on your weather fax this is the list of all the stations that is transmitting weather fax suppose you are going to China from India you just have to draw a line get an approximate approximation so the stations that will be transmitting will be Bangkok Kagoshima Seoul and Viluna always remember since there are a few stations transmitting weather fax the list of stations are in alphabetical order so it will start from alpha and end at Victor these are how a weather fax email station chart looks like so for a better understanding I will show you Honolulu Honolulu Honolulu this is the station code this is this lat long of Honolulu station and these are the transmitting frequencies that you have to enter into your fax email receiver so this transmission frequency will be transmitting between these times this between this and first I'll show you how the map of Honolulu looks like this is a map of Honolulu having different sectors that are getting covered by different characters you can see it's written Charlie Bravo 1 5 Delta so the Charlie is getting covered covering the area of this place basically for a mariner the important things are surface analysis and forecast so I'll see whether the surf where the surface analysis is coming up it is coming in surface analysis is getting covered by the area C at 0 0 1 4 Zulu and 0 1 1 0 1 2 1 4 Zulu so if you are switching on your weather fax at 0 0 1 4 or 1 2 1 4 and you are entering the frequency of Charlie the Charlie frequency is anything within this so once you enter the frequency at 0 0 1 4 and 1 2 1 4 you will be getting a surface analysis in the form of of weather fax the other thing that you may need will be weather forecast surface forecast for 48 hours 72 hours 24 hours it will be transmitting at 0 7 1 2 0 7 0 1 or 1 9 0 1 Zulu so since it is in a we'll see whether alpha covers the whole region so you'll be getting at 1 day 2 day or 3 day surface forecast if you power the weather fax on at these three frequencies according to the timing even in alpha alpha the timings are 7 and 7 GMT this is how you will get a weather fax