"JFC-FAX" Global Chart

Better band conditions in winter of 2010 have opened up the 22559.6 kHz parallel to 16097.5 kHz, greatly improving reception of the 0030 UTC JFC fishery transmission always headed "JFC-FAX."

We really lucked out on this chart, received on March 2, 2010 (UTC date). Not only is it clearer than usual, but much larger. It depicts a map of the world gridded into coordinates, where some grid squares are filled in with numbers. These might relate to catches in that area.

JFC is Misaki Fishery Radio, at the prefectural fishery technical college in Japan. This chart shows one of JFC's more distinctive characteristics, which is that everything always looks kind of ragged, like a pirate treasure map.