The Clipper Weatherman combines a selective HF receiver, a powerful computer and a high contrast display in a single compact instrument case. The compact display unit will grace any instrument panel.

The user can choose which messages to store in the memory, which is capable of holding several thousand lines of text.

The Nasa Clipper Weatherman is a flush mount unit, but Nasa now have a bracket kit for this if you want to mount it on a console.

For many years commercial vessels have received weather forecasts via radioteletype (RTTY) from the German National Weather Agency (DWD). Whilst a few intrepid yachtsmen have tuned into this excellent service with an HF receiver and a PC results have often been disappointing. DWD operates on a 24 hour continuous schedule on several frequencies simultaneously. The service covers the whole of Europe from the coast of Africa in the South to the Northern tip of Norway and from the Baltic and Black Sea in the East, to the Canaries and Faroes in the West. However for some reason Ireland and the Irish Sea are excluded!

Specification

• 16 line display x 40 characters per line
• Very high contrast display
• White Backlight
• Supply voltage nominal 12v
• Consumption, 50mA @ 12v
• Consumption with backlight, 100mA @ 12v
• Power save auto timer for backlight
• Compact Display Size, mm L - 150, H - 122, D - 42
• Active micro antenna, mm H - 175, diameter - 40mm
• Antenna comes with 7 metres of cable