Today's run of SSTV images as received on 14.230 MHz here in Metro Vancouver. Using MLA-30+ loop antenna, @SDRplay RSPduo tuner, RX-SSTV.

Runway 4 back in operation at New York City's LaGuardia Airport, following the horrific crash of a landing Air Canada Jazz flight with a fire truck.

Really enjoyed giving a presentation on SDRs, and the evolution of HamClock and various offshoots, to the Delta Amateur Radio Society here in Metro Vancouver this evening. Thank you to @Nooelec for the promotional items I was able to hand out. Thank you president Rob Eichhorn VE7LR for inviting me.

Get ready for the next ISS SSTV event. In Celebration of Cosmonautics Day (April 12) Start: April 10 End: April 14 (times to be confirmed) Frequency: 437.550 MHz Power: 10 watts SSTV Mode: Robot 36 Interval: 2 minutes between transmissions.

More beauties, this time from METEOR M2-4 at 4 PM local here in Vancouver, as the satellite passed to the W. Two shots corrected by @Grok to remove signal dropout lines. Spot the stratovolcanoes! @seattlewxguy.bsky.social

Beauties from METEOR M2-3 at 11:45 AM local here in Vancouver, as the satellite passed to the W. Two shots corrected by @Grok to remove signal dropout lines.

Another cavalcade of USAF tankers over the Middle East at 2215z. Tracking in FR24.

The USAF heavy metal parade across Europe to the Middle East continues unabated. Here we see a KC-135R tanker, 3 C-17 Globemasters, 2 KC-46A tankers, and a C-5M on the southerly route across the Mediterranean. Snapshot at 0430z Thursday morning.

Two beauties from METEOR M2-4 at 4:30 PM local as the satellite passed well W of Vancouver this afternoon. TA-1 turnstile antenna, @Nooelec receiving gear, processing with Raspi NOAA V2-4, signal dropout bar removal by @Grok, which is really getting good at this!

Runway 4 still closed at New York City's LaGuardia Airport. Snapshot at 2015z / 415 PM local shows traffic on the other runway, and also shows two Air Canada flights active at the terminal. @borrowed7time.bsky.social @steffanwatkins.bsky.social @osinttechnical.bsky.social

Today's 20 m 14.230 mHz run of SSTV images, as received and processed in Vancouver. 49 images, many rather noisy. Most frequent source: KG5JJ in Bella Vista, Arizona, about 2600 km from me. Antenna: MLA-30+ loop Radio: SDRplay RSPduo Software: SDRuno to tune, RX-SSTV to decode.

METEOR M2-4 at 3:15 PM today as the satellite made a near-overhead pass for Metro Vancouver. And it looks like the snow-ice spectral filter has been activated. That's the turquoise colour you see in the second image.

A beauty from METEOR M2-3 just ahead of 11 AM this morning from a pass E of Vancouver. More atmospheric river type of weather! Note sharply defined "shelf" or cloud edge shadow along upper boundary of this "river". Great Salt Lake at lower right. TA-1 antenna by @wimo_de, radio gear by @Nooelec.

Lots of military aircraft action over Europe Tuesday morning. Another 7 USAF C-17 heavy lifter Globemasters aloft, 7 KC-135R tankers either aloft or active on the ground. One USAF C-5M, Galaxy, and one USAf Gulfstream 5 (C-37A) heading W out of Germany.

Three USAF KC-135R tankers over Cornwall, UK, and, zoomed out a little, we see six active KC-135R tankers active over the southern UK. Snapshots at 0715z Tuesday morning.

Tough-going for the overnight @SWradiogram session over WRMI, 5850 kHz, 0800-0830 UTC, early Monday morning. Just four image decodes were triggered, all very noisy. Text decoding was sporadic. Did see a block of French. Always a challenge. QTH Vancouver, MLA-30+ loop antenna, SDRplay RSPduo tuner.

The cross-country "clipper". Stormy weather coast-to-coast for Canada. www.msn.com/en-ca/weathe...

Horrific. Controller tried halting or recalling firetruck approved to cross Runway 4 to assist a UAL flight with smoke/cabin fumes.

AMSAT changes the look and colour scheme for its amateur radio satellites status page.

Haunting images (circulating widely on X) of #ACA8546, the Air Canada Express/Jazz CRJ-900 which collided with an airport firetruck while landing at New York's La Guardia Airport. Full ground stop continues. FR24 data suggests collision speed > 100 knots. @osinttechnical.bsky.social @osintgeek.de

Haunting images of #ACA8546, Air Canada Express/Jazz CRJ-900 which collided with an airport firetruck while landing at New York's La Guardia Airport. Ground stop continues, and here shows Frontier Airlines plane visible in the second image with its ADS-B signal still active at 1500z this morning.

Unusually busy moment: 10 active Globemaster heavy lifter aircraft active on the trans-Europe route between the US and the Middle East. Equally unusual, we see 1 each from Kuwait and UAE heading to US. We also see an Australian C17 heading to the US. Snapshots at 1445z / 1645 EET. @osintgeek.de

Serious situation at New York's La Guardia Airport where an Air Canada CRJ900 aircraft has collided with a fire truck while landing. Serious damage to aircraft's cockpit area. Fatalities and injuries reported. Airport is presently shut down.

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Another batch of fine captures from the METEOR weather satellite twins, with two from 2-4, and one from 2-3. Images captured between 11 AM and 4 PM local here in Vancouver. Minor post-processing with @Grok, which is doing a superb job compared to the competition (Gemini and ChatGPT).

RCAF C-17A Globemaster CFC3611 177704 #C2B3F5 passing over Austria, heading SE. Destination not clear. Perhaps the NATO base in Romania? Snapshot at 2115z / 2315 EET.

Two USAF KC-135R tankers on the move at RAF Mildenhall in the UK. Snapshot at 0800z Sunday morning.

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Today's "blue marble" shot from GOES-18 at 2100 UTC / 2 PM PDT, along with a localized zoom and crop, showing the remnants of the atmospheric river event stalled at its origins, over Hawaii. Nooelec dish antenna here in Vancouver, along with LNA and SDR, and GOEStools software.

ARG01 with Argentina's Javier Milei aboard, returning to Buenos Aires after a visit to Hungary. Snapshot at 0235z Sunday morning. @borrowed7time.bsky.social @osinttechnical.bsky.social

Four beauties from the METEOR twins today, from passes E and W of Metro Vancouver. Using TA-1 turnstile antenna from @wimo_de, and radio gear from @Nooelec. Last image shows remnants of the near-weeklong atmospheric river event which hammered the PNW. @spann.bsky.social @seattlewxguy.bsky.social

Upcoming ISS SSTV event...

It's stormy out there, on the space weather front that is. However, Bz and anticipated energy dissipation rate aren't showing desired values. :( At least not as of 7:15 PM.

Three terrific shots from the METEOR satellites today, two from 2-4, one from 2-3. All cleaned up a little in @Grok, to remove signal dropout lines. From passes near to Metro Vancouver, ranging from 22 W, to 55 E. TA-1 turnstile antenna from @wimo_de, radio gear from @Nooelec.

Beautiful capture (with a little @Grok cleanup) from METEOR M2-3 at 1045 AM PDT, from a pass to the E of Metro Vancouver. The long-duration atmospheric river event has begun fading away as it drifts SE, leaving localized flooding and landslides across the PNW. @seattlewxguy.bsky.social

Another day, another six or seven USAF C-17 Globemaster heavy lifters on the trans-Europe supply route to and from the Middle East. A trio of USAF KC-135R tankers is also seen just W of Israel. Snapshot at 2000z Friday. @osinttechnical.bsky.social @osint-research.bsky.social @osintgeek.de

Very bad situation in Hawaii. Wahiawa Dam failure in progress or anticipated.

Mercator projection shows how the day-night demarcation is perpendicular to the equator at the spring equinox. (rest of this picture shows radio signals into grid CN89, Vancouver). @wandrme.paxex.aero @ve7sar.bsky.social @spann.bsky.social @n4jaw.bsky.social @hamradioworld.bsky.social

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Crop from today's "blue marble full disk maximum disk illumination shot from GOES-18. Showcasing the remaining structure of the atmospheric river which has delivered such copious amounts of precipitation to Metro Vancouver, and the PNW generally.

After a week of flawless image cleanups for signal dropout lines from images I capture from the two METEOR satellites, Grok today went completely crazy. The original image is shown first. After first "lying" by giving me images from previous days, it next served up the trio of images you see here.

Very "noisy" day for 20 m 14.230 MHz SSTV images reception in Metro Vancouver today. First image arrived at 7 AM local and last one decoded at 6:30 PM local. Using MLA-30+ loop antenna, SDRplay RSPduo tuner (also running 20 m WSPR decodes).

Password manager 1Password, a Canadian company, has raised its rates. Going forward it will be almost a dollar per week for my subscription. Remember: 1Password.ca is the Canadian domain, whereas 1Password.com is primarily for the US market.

METEOR M 2-4 with a little strange output from Raspi NOAA. Pass was far to the E for me here in Vancouver. Turnstile antenna.

Another seven USAF C-17 heavy lifters on the trans-Europe supply route to the Middle East, and one KC-135R tanker threading the Straits of Gibraltar into the southern Mediterranean. Snapshots around 1630z.

Quick glance at HF signals propagation and space weather metrics from Vancouver. 1. HF via FT8 signals over 30 min into CN89. 2. HF via WSPR signals over 20 min into CN89. 3. 20 m WSPR monitoring over 24 h, my station. 4. 17/20/30 m WSPR transmitting over 24 h at 200 milliwatts.

A look at today's 20 m (14.230 MHz) complement of ~50 SSTV images as received in Metro Vancouver. Using MLA-30+ loop antenna, @SDRplay RSPduo tuner (also doing double duty as a 20 m WSPR monitor). First image: 7:46 AM local. Last image: 18:37 local. @hamradiotoday.org @ve7sar.bsky.social

Another cavalcade of USAF C-17 heavy lifters on the trans-Europe route to the Middle East, along with a trio of GAF A400 aircraft, as seen here at 0115z Thursday.

Lovely shot from weather satellite METEOR M2-4 as it passed nearly overhead for Vancouver at 3:45 PM PT this afternoon. Note the sharply defined cloud shelf (small arrows) marking the northern edge of the atmospheric river delivering copious moisture to this part of North America.