Weather Infobox WIB2

I bought the WIB2 as a cheap replacement for a failed NASA NAVTEX receiver. Long-wave and short-wave sea weather reports are received with a freely programmable Seal WE-FAX501, which is no longer available in the market. This also NAVTEX is to receive, however, partially overlap the transmission times. As a sailor you do not need NAVTEX necessarily. The information is also available on the internet, eg. B. via httpswww.dwd.deDEfachnutzerschifffahrtfunkausstrahlungnavtex_node.html. Sea weather reports, FAX weather charts and NAVTEX are complete with the Moerer weather info box WIBE (Europe) to receive, corresponds to my receiver Seal WE-FAX501. As long as the Internet is available near the coast, you can get much more detailed and longer-term weather forecasts. More informative than classic sea weather reports are GRIB data, which can be B. be loaded with the freeware program zyGRIB from the Internet and can be displayed in a map selectable by coordinates. Weather reports from different sources do not always have to match. Local conditions such as land-sea-wind effect, cap and nozzle effects can lead to serious deviations. M. Brandes, SY Libra

Very nice little device, works very well with the laptop, it is very good to have the Navtex info especially when you are far from the coast and you no longer have access to portable networks. Only negative point the manual is in German it would be better to have it in English or French. Also, I saw that it exists now as a variant with a bar graph Wib2-B, it would be interesting to propose this one too.

I was surprised at the ease of implementation and operation of WeatherInfoibox. It remains to learn to interpret the messages but that has nothing to do with the product. We are delighted with our purchase.