Finally a nearly-complete image from the SSTV series transplanted from the ISS to cubesat Vizard-Meteo. Thanks to @arissintl.bsky.social and other agencies for making this possible. 3 element log periodic antenna, hand tracked, high-angle pass.

It's not much but at least I pulled in something from the SSTV transmmission by SONATE-2 as it passed over Vancouver. Actually the SSTV started with the satellite over northern California and moving southwards. Tracking in SkyRoof, using TA-1 Turnstile antenna, SDRplay RSPduo tuner. 145.880 MHz.

Today's lovely "blue marble" eastern Pacific, as received and processed with my Nooelec ground station in Vancouver via 1.7 GHz radio signal from GOES-18 at 137 W. Taken at 2100 UTC / 1 PM PST, around solar noon for the satellite. Note the ocean glint. Spot the still persisting California tule fog.

Stunning! California's tule fog persists, clearly seen from GOES-18 at 2100 UTC / 1 PM PST. Received and processed via 1.7 GHz radio signal here in Vancouver. Atmospheric river looking rather "disorganized". Ship "contrails" visible W of California and Mexico in high pressure zone.

More on today's temblor in Yukon. Confusion over magnitude; 7.0? 6.7? Quite a few aftershocks. Here's an interesting site mapping these other earthquakes. earthquaketrack.com/quakes/2025-... @earthquakeguy.bsky.social @bcnewsaddict.bsky.social @bobmackin.bsky.social

CFC3845 out of Tampa on the way back to Canada. Airbus A-330-200, 330002, #C2C363. This shot at 2135z, 435 PM EST.

The completely fascinating Javascript story. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Ready for SONATE-2 passes with SSTV in Martin-1 mode overnight here in Vancouver. For anything SSTV-related, particularly via satellites, be sure to follow @sv2hwm.bsky.social.

ISS SSTV via cubesat Vizard-Meteo. At least a partial image. A radio failure led to the series being transmitted from Russian cubesat Vizard-Meteo, 437.825 MHz, instead of from the ISS. This is from a pass over Vancouver tonight at 9:30 PM. Antenna: Elk log periodic.

You think VA7SHG, Jim, has great APRS coverage? He certainly does. Compare the area he covers to my paltry polygon (the darker blob inside the much bigger area).

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Rebound! Glance at HF propagation and space weather metrics at 2215 UTC through: 1, 2: HamClock with FT8 over past 30 minutes. 3. Past 24 h of FT8 signals into my Vancouver station, monitoring 10-160 m. 4. Past 24 h of WSPR transmissions at 200 milliwatts from Vancouver.

As the Icom 7300, arguably the world's biggest-selling amateur radio, goes EOL, we see the main Canadian retailer drop the price to $1600. US retailers are selling the 7300, with a $100 rebate, for the equivalent of $1250 CDN.

Gorgeous crop from GOES-18 full disk shot at 2020 UTC / 1230 PM PST, highlighting the massive tule fogbank in California (almost two weeks, and bigger than yesterday). And ship "contrails" far offshore in the high pressure region W of California. @seattlewxguy.bsky.social

Atmospheric river event or not? Here's the latest GOES-18 shot (2030 UTC / 1230 PM PST) from the home satellite system. Hawaii at lower left, BC at upper right. Certainly not well-defined, with large near-open patches. Lots of water coming up from ~20 deg N latitude but where will it go?

Let's see how this plays out... atmospheric river forecasting is tricky. Via Ingalls Weather on FB.

All set for the transplanted ISS SSTV event using satellite RS38S, aka VIZARD-METEO, as it comes up on a Metro Vancouver pass. Tracking here in SkyRoof.

About that ISS service module radio, the one which handles APRS and SSTV... @hamradio.bsky.social @ve7sar.bsky.social

About that ISS service module radio, the one which handles APRS and SSTV... @hamradio.bsky.social @ve7sar.bsky.social

California tule fog bank still persisting after more than a week, although diminishing in length. Seen here in GOES-18 mesoscale shots over past several days. As received and processed with my own Nooelec ground station here in Vancouver.

Busy night for RQ-4 Global Hawk FORTE10. Heading back to base in Sicilia after patrolling around Kaliningrad and along the border with Belarus.

A spot of wild space weather and impacts on HF propagation today. 1. Hp30 index over past 24 h 2, 3: HamClock with space weather and HF propagation metrics. 4. Past 24 h of FT8 signals, 10-160 m, into my receiver in Vancouver @hamradio.bsky.social @hamradiotoday.org @tamithaskov.bsky.social

Lovely "blue marble" shot from GOES-18 at 1 PM PST, and a crop from the same shot, showing a bit of an atmospheric river event, although very diffuse at the Hawaii latitude (bottom left in second shot). Received and processed with my own gear here in Vancouver.

What we've been waiting for ... #SSTV

Unofficial IETF draft calls for grant of five nonillion IPv6 addresses to ham radio operators. Yes, five nonillion. Ham radio operators were allocated a huge stash of IPv4 addresses in 1981; sold a block to Amazon for $100 million. Yes. $100 million. Read on. www.theregister.com/2025/12/02/h...

Rainy Vancouver over next five days...

Glance at HF propagation and space weather metrics at 0115 UTC through: 1, 2: HamClock with FT8 over past 30 minutes. 3. Past 24 h of FT8 signals into my Vancouver station, monitoring 10-160 m. 4. Past 24 h of WSPR transmissions at 200 milliwatts from Vancouver. @hamradiotoday.org

Here's an interesting plane near the Colombia-Venezuela border at around 2330z today. PNC-0250 #0AC9D4. Photo credit: www.planespotters.net/photo/116930...

California tule fog bank still persisting after more than a week, although diminishing in length. Seen here in a GOES-18 mesoscale shot, this afternoon around 1 PM PST. As received and processed with my Nooelec ground station here in Vancouver. @seattlewxguy.bsky.social @bcnewsaddict.bsky.social

Today's lovely "blue marble" shot of the eastern Pacific, as received and processed with my Nooelec ground station in Vancouver via 1.7 GHz radio signal from GOES-18 at 137 W. Taken at 2100 UTC / 1 PM PST, around solar noon for the satellite. Note the ocean glint. Spot the California tule fog.

Never used AMSAT's status page? Basically look for blue or yellow. Blue indicates a voice repeater is active; also used for an APRS repeater (the ISS and satellite SONATE-2 have such repeaters). Yellow indicates telemetry, which can include SSTV. www.amsat.org/status/index...

Four amateur radio / educational cubesats "tossed" overboard from the ISS today. These satellites will be transmitting telemetry on 70 cm band.

Google, and its rapidly evolving AI toolset, is on a roll. OpenAI/ChatGPT/Altman feel compelled to issue an internal "code red" about the heated competition.

Shingles vaccination and diminished dementia risk. The latest findings. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... @bettycjung.bsky.social

Five amateur radio satellites being deployed from the ISS today. site.amsat-f.org/2025/12/02/c...

Still improving my 70 cm / UHF SSTV reception setup. At least I'm getting something from ArcticSat1 on 435.890 MHz. Now, let's see if @ARISS_Intl updates the schedule for redeployed ISS SSTV event on Vizard-Meteo.

Second-biggest undergraduate program now at MIT is "artificial intelligence and decision-making", second only to computer science. edscoop.com/university-a...

High-altitude balloon HBAL787 still meandering north of Arecibo, Puerto Rico, as it has been the past several days. At about 56,000 feet. @osinttechnical.bsky.social @osinttechniques.bsky.social @airnavradar.com @flightradar24.com

Stunning! METEOR M-N2-4 at 3 PM as the Russian weather satellite passed W of Vancouver. Check out the line of stratovolcanoes (with shadows), and the offshore ship "contrails". Received and processed via 137 MHz radio signal and TV rabbit ears antenna. @seattlewxguy.bsky.social

Stunning! METEOR M-N2-4 at 3 PM as the Russian weather satellite passed W of Vancouver. Check out the line of stratovolcanoes (with shadows), and the offshore ship "contrails". Received and processed via 137 MHz radio signal and TV rabbit ears antenna.

Can Altman keep the plates spinning at OpenAI as Alphabet/Google makes major inroads in the AI space? www.ft.com/content/8881...

Beauty! METEOR M2-3 at around 1015 AM PST this morning, via TV rabbit ears antenna as the satellite passed over Vancouver.

Relatively busy over supposedly "closed" Venezuelan airspace. Here's the scene at 1750z.

"Math" is a trending topic on X/Twitter in Canada today. Yes, "Math". The tweets are terrific, and wide-ranging. I was drawn in immediately. Take a look if math and physics and engineering appeal to you. Maybe it can trend here too.

Lots of delays and cancelations this Monday morning for ai travel across the United States. O'Hare particularly hard hit. @spann.bsky.social @seattlewxguy.bsky.social

Ignoring that notice about Venezuelan airspace. Here are four flights at 1535z this Monday morning.

Running search patterns off Aruba at 0510z, 1:10 AM local.

Today's lovely "blue marble" shot of the eastern Pacific, as received and processed with my Nooelec ground station in Vancouver via 1.7 GHz radio signal from GOES-18 at 137 W. Taken at 2030 UTC / 1230 PM PST, around solar noon for the satellite. Note the ocean glint. Spot the California tule fog.

The late-night (North American time) / early-morning (European time) arc of eastbound aircraft across the North Atlantic, as seen here at 11:45 PM EST / 0345z / 4:45 AM in London.

California's massive tule fog continues. It's been about a week. Here we see the fogbank today, yesterday, and Friday. All shots around midday, mesoscale from GOES-18, as received and processed with my own ground station in Vancouver. Background article: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tule_fog