KPH RTTY & SITOR 12585.5 kHz 1900 08jan22 UTC

[WA4FHY]

Sked for Saturday RTTY / SITOR transmissions at https://www.radiomarine.org/mrhs-operations
is off by 1 hour for UTC. Transmission starts at 1100 PST = 1900 UTC, not 1800 UTC. I suspect
the web page was posted during DST and not updated; looks like their operations run on
local Pacific time, not UTC.

Sig was noisy but I copied ~70% for 3 hours of marine nx and wx for Mates, Masters, and Pilots
on RTTY. At 2200 UTC that was repeated using SITOR. I could not decode the SITOR using fldigi
(OpMode / Navtext / SITORB) but did a quick search and found that YaND (Yet another Navtext Decoder),
which I have installed, would decode the SITOR so switched to that and again got ~70% good
decodes. By ~0000 UTC, 12585.5 was fading out but 6324.5 kHz was beginning to fade in and
I copied that for a while. One of the nx stories was an advisory that piracy, armed robbery, and
kidnapping for ransom, of ships is on the increase in and near the Gulf of Guinea including Cameroon,
Equatorial Guinea, Ghana, Sao Tome and Principe, and Gabon.

This is a weekly event and a good opportunity to try out RTTY and SITOR decoders. 

[WA4FHY]

KPH 0007 23jan22 UTC
8424.8 kHz (dial) - KPH in SITORB with marine wx

SEAS TO 12 FT.
.48 HOUR FORECAST LOW 43N178W 993 MB. S OF 46N BETWEEN 170E AND
162W WINDS 25 TO 40 KT. SEAS 9 TO 19 FT.

...GALE WARNING...
.LOW 54N158W 985 MB MOVING NE 15 KT. N OF 46N BETWEEN 129W AND
166W WINDS 25 TO 35 KT. SEAS 11 TO 22 FT. E
MEEWFWZL L
WHERE OTHERWISE DESCRIBED...S OF 61N BETWEEN 129W AND 165W WINDS
LESS THAN 25 KT. SEAS 9 TO 20 FT IN MIXED SWELL.
.24 HOUR FORECAST LOW 59N151W 1008 MB. WITHIN 180 NM OF CENTER
WINDS 20 TO 30 KT.7SY,!'17'.;. 6!