From: "Dr Martin Davey" 
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Subject: Re: aussie-weather: Storms around SA/NT/WA border. 
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 00:13:36 +0930
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Hi All,
        Regarding the storms around the SA/NT/WA border, there is very
little mention of storms in the SA WB forecast other than isolated storms in
the far north. I have just looked up Giles reports and no rain mentioned yet
but reports of thunder.These storms will stay well north but the moist cloud
mass may drift east and south eastwards towards Qld and NSW. Weather in
Adelaide has been very boring and the outlook very bleak with another weak
change Saturday morning with only isolated showers. However isolated showers
and storms may persist in the far north. Did anyone notice that Eucla had
31mm of rain yesterday in this cloud mass so there is moisture in it for
some lucky ones.

Martin
Adelaide

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Subject: aussie-weather: TT's
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anyone seen the TT's for the weekend? looking very nice for VIC/NSW,
and nice for SA tomorrow and friday
matt 

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From: Paul_Mossman at agd.nsw.gov.au
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Morning all.....looking like a great day here today. Some early high cloud,
evidence of the approaching cool change and left overs from the Inland
storms.

If the following people are on at the moment:

Greg Browning
Matt Smith
Nick Sykes

Please email me back!!

Thanx.

Paul

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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 14:04:33 +1100 (EST)
From: Paul Graham 
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Subject: aussie-weather: Storm Tracking and Satellite Imagery...
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Hello everyone,
	I thought that people on this list may be interested to have a
read of the latest Australian Radio and Communications magazine since it
has an article on a computer controlled storm tracker.  The device tracks
thunderstorms by detecting the EMR from lightning received by a
directional antenna.  The antenna system is pretty big so you'd need a
fairly large yard, but given the costs associated with subscribing to the
Bureau's radar network, this could be a cheap (in the long term) and
effective alternative (I'll bet the hardware and antenna won't be cheap
though).  Severe storms often have a different movement (eg. supercells) 
to other thunderstorms and so may show up nicely with such a system - also
the frequency of lightning flashes is often higher when a storm is severe. 
The article is featured in the regular "Satellites" collumn by Arthur
Andrews.  He also makes mention of an Australian Remote Imaging Group for
the reception of polar satellite imagery and gives a web address.  The
people in this group (including Arthur) will be providing hi-res satellite
imagery of significant storm events (tropical cyclones etc...) on their
web site (can't remember the address off hand but I think it is something
like: http://users.batemansbay.com/ ).  Also, here at Macquarie Uni., we
(myself, one of physics staff and a radio-amateur) are in the final stages
of setting up an APT (automatic picture transmission) receiving station
(about 4km/pixel) for polar orbiting satellite images (I hope we'll be
able to have something on the web soon - I have just finished working on
the antenna system).  As a quick note on this, an APT setup is very easy
and relatively cheap to install.  In fact, you don't need anything fancy: 
I've heard of people using their VCR to receive the satellite signal (with
an appropriate antenna, of course). Your best bet though, is to use a
scanner linked in to your computer's soundcard and have some software such
as WXSats to decode the received WAV file.  Make sure the IF bandwidth of
the scanner is around 50Khz - you may need to have some modifications
made.  Another option is to use one of these computer controlled radios
now avaialable.  An example is the ICOM PCR1000 but may be beyond the
budget of most people (around $600).  The Australian equivalent Winradio
doesn't seem to have the right sort of IF bandwidth but I have heard of
people using it successfully and it comes with software for this purpose
(picture quality won't be great though). If you are really keen, you can
try for the HRPT (high rate. picture transmission)  which is on 1.698Ghz,
supports several channels, is a digital transmission, requires a computer
controlled rotatable dish antenna (that can keep track of the satellite)
and some digital signal processing.  I believe LRPT (low rate picture
transmission), a digital signal transmission, will soon replace the old
analogue APT on the 137Mhz channels but will be easier to receive and
support the same number of channels as the current HRPT.  This will be for
NOAA satellites but I'm not sure about the RESURS series (Don't know if
there will be any more in the METEOR series - Russia is broke..) 
	- Paul G.

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Paul Graham
m3052695 at hardy.ocs.mq.edu.au
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From: "McDonald" 
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Subject: aussie-weather: Melbourne weather.
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 13:06:19 +1100
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Good afternoon everyone,

Can anyone tell me what's going to happen in Melbourne this weekend?  I've
been too busy studying for uni exams to do anything this week.  I saw on
the news that we are supposed to get storms on saturday arvo/evening but i
hope it's more arvo cause i'm going ot be stuck inside until late saturday
night.

Thanks.

Andrew McDonald.

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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1998 17:57:25 +1100 (EST)
From: Paul Graham 
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Subject: aussie-weather: RIG Address...
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Hi everyone,
The complete address I meant to give in my previous e-mail is:
http://users.batemansbay.com/msr/

- Paul G.
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Paul Graham
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From: "Michael Thompson" 
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Subject: Re: aussie-weather: sydney weekend weather
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:16:22 +1100
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It is looking good, the only fear I have is dry NW winds being drawn down
from the interior.

A low is expected to develop over inland Victoria / Western NSW towards
Monday which should add some spice.

Michael

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Date: Wednesday, 4 November 1998 23:43
Subject: aussie-weather: sydney weekend weather


>Sydney Outlook:
>Friday
>Fine. NE/NW winds.     City Max:     25
>Saturday
>Chance of late shower or storm. NE/N winds.    City Max:     27
>Sunday
>Few showers or a storm. S change.    City Max:     25
>
>
>yeah it all sounds promising, hope it  comes true!!!!
>Matt

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From: "Michael Thompson" 
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Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 18:23:39 +1100
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The article below is a reply to one  OzeMails latest news letters that
introduce their " my weather" service., you never know your luck, but I
doubt anything would happen. I does not hurt to try though.


Hi guys

You could not come to some sort of deal with the Bureau in regard to radar !

There are many Australian Weather enthusiasts who are / would become OzeMail
customers if Bureau Radar was available ( to Ozzy's customers only ).

Rumour has it AOL may do something like that, so beat them to the punch.

Michael Thompson
http://thunder.simplenet.com

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>the most comprehensive online coverage of weather forecasts for all
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From: "Michael Thompson" 
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The article below is a reply to one  OzeMails latest news letters that
introduce their " my weather" service., you never know your luck, but I
doubt anything would happen. I does not hurt to try though.


Hi guys

You could not come to some sort of deal with the Bureau in regard to radar !

There are many Australian Weather enthusiasts who are / would become OzeMail
customers if Bureau Radar was available ( to Ozzy's customers only ).

Rumour has it AOL may do something like that, so beat them to the punch.

Michael Thompson
http://thunder.simplenet.com

>Rain, hail or shine, OzEmail's new online service, My Weather gives you
>the most comprehensive online coverage of weather forecasts for all
>capital cities and major regional areas in Australia.  Having teamed up
>with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, My Weather offers you today's
>current temperature, four day forecasts, humidity, wind, pressure and
>dewpoint readings and even allows you to check current wind, flood and
>fire warnings.  Let My Weather be your online weather reporter.  But
>stay tuned, in coming months My Weather will feature international
>weather conditions and an email alert facility.
>
>http//www.myweather.com.au

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From: "Michael Thompson" 
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Subject: Re: aussie-weather: Melbourne weather.
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 21:57:23 +1100
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Actually Monday through to Wednesday is looking very interesting for the
Victorians, could be some minor flooding in Gippsland if the US models come
true !

Michael

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From: McDonald 
To: aussie-weather at world.std.com 
Date: Thursday, 5 November 1998 20:54
Subject: aussie-weather: Melbourne weather.


>Good afternoon everyone,
>
>Can anyone tell me what's going to happen in Melbourne this weekend?  I've
>been too busy studying for uni exams to do anything this week.  I saw on
>the news that we are supposed to get storms on saturday arvo/evening but i
>hope it's more arvo cause i'm going ot be stuck inside until late saturday
>night.
>
>Thanks.
>
>Andrew McDonald.