GOES 15 reactivated for testing and backup coverage for GOES 17 during Hurricane and Cyclone season. GOES 15 was launched atop a Delta IV-M+(4,2) rocket flying from Space Launch Complex 37B at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The launch occurred at 23:57 GMT on 4 March 2010, forty minutes into a sixty-minute launch window. […]
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced plans on June 25, 2021, to move its geostationary weather satellite, which is scheduled to launch in December, into an operational role “as soon as possible.” This advances the previous GOES-T flyout and operational status schedule by a whopping 4 years. No word as of yet for GOES […]
Read MoreWhat do Quaker Oats and Satellite Reception have to do with each other? Well, I have always said where there’s a will, there’s a way. Over on saveitforparts youtube channel, savitforparts has used his good old American ingenuity to build a GOES receiver with a free DirecTV dish, some cardboard and (a lot of) foil […]
Read MorePerseverance on Mars So, yes, my name and my wife’s name are on this rover. And yes, I spent 3 and 1/2 hours watching the NASA feed of mission control as this Mission did the the incredible, not the impossible, but the possible! Makes me so proud to be an American, and for the AMAZING […]
Read MoreA radio group in Madrid Spain has been able to lock onto, and receive a signal capable and strong enough to generate imagery using goestools. I am sharing the article here as they used a creative way of obtaining the signal by using the offset dish, upside down!GREAT JOB GUYS! Full article here: https://radio.clubs.etsit.upm.es/blog/2020-12-20-goes/
Read MoreMy Wife’s war with the Sciurus carolinesis (Eastern Gray squirrel) has been elevated from a simple ground assault, with the squirrels pillaging and looting the gardens and planters around Headquarters. to upping the ante’ to an aerial assault, sending in trained paratrooper squirrels to leap from poles and trees into hanging plants and raised garden […]
Read MoreOk, Here’s the question – Is time travel possible? Here’s my thoughts: Yes. I am sitting here writing this little piece of nonsense, the ramblings coming out of my brain. I am writing this today in 2020. Yet you, the reader are reading this in the future! Okay, okay. So maybe it’s not time travel, […]
Read MoreWell, I gave my PowerPoint Presentation on DIY NOAA APT & GOES-R Satellite Reception using Software Defined Radio. This was done via WebEx and I think there were about 30 + people in virtual attendance. I have to admit it’s been a while since I talked publicly. And I was a bit nervous, but I […]
Read MoreI’ll tell you what they’ll think. They think Doc Brown has moved to town! So they’ll be wondering what you’re doing up on the roof, again, messing around with that thing on the pole that looks like an egg beater or a large science fair version of DNA. They’ll see you out in the freezing […]
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