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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 8h

Another successful tracking of a radiosonde (weather balloon) launched from Washington State's Quillayute Airport on the Olympic Peninsula. For the past four days the balloons have been speeding across the peninsula towards Puget Sound. This evening's sonde reached 185 km/h at 11300 m.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 19h

Canada's Josh Kutryk heads off to the ISS at 11:11 AM EDT aboard a SpaceX rocket and Dragon capsule. He's part of a 4-man multi-national crew.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Another successful tracking of a radiosonde (weather balloon) launched from Washington State's Quillayute Airport on Olympic Peninsula. For the past three days the balloons have been speeding across the peninsula at up to 30 m/s (~100 km/h) towards Puget Sound. I'm tracking the sondes on 404.6 MHz.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

From the ARISS International X/Twitter Feed. SSTV event starts October 2 0900 UTC and runs through Tuesday October 6 1600 UTC. ☐ 437.550 MHz programmed ☐ SSTV software tested ☐ Robot 36 selected ☐ ISS pass times checked ☐ Doppler tuning ready ☐ Receive, decode, and submit your images!

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Canada's Josh Kutryk scheduled for fiirst school contact from the ISS on Monday October 5, assuming a successful Friday launch this week. Hoping Kutryk also becomes active on the ISS voice repeater during his stay aboard the ISS. Have we ever had a Canadian active on that FM repeater?

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

With #Kaliningrad in the news, here's a closer look at where this Russian outpost / exclave sits, and how the main supply route is by air and ship to and from St. Petersburg through a narrow strip of international waters and air space.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A testament to the resilience of the 737 MAX 8, and to the quick-thinking crew and passengers who sprang into action. Thank goodness there was a relief flight deck crew aboard. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

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'Jihadist' pilot knifed co-pilot and tried to crash jet

A commercial pilot flying from Dubai to Israel attacked another pilot before being overpowered by passengers in what is feared to have been an attempted hijacking.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Squawk 7400... no human control? Gulfstream PS-FMV.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

SSTV and WSPR monitoring. A bit of success with seeing SSTV on 14.230 MHz the past couple of days. First images typically roll in around 7 AM local here in Vancouver. My setup here also monitors 20 m WSPR with the same SDR. I set up two virtual receivers (VRX) in SDRuno.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, and yesterday, a few minutes under 24 hours apart. Two fine shots from METEOR 2-4, yesterday's just as an overnight atmospheric river event got underway, and today's as the clouds gave way to a fine late afternoon. As received and processed in Vancouver with my own ground station.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

What do we have here? SR52. SE of Cold Lake. #C2BE77 CF-18 Hornet (better details in FR24 than in ADSBexchange).

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Best run yet for radiosonde (weather balloon) tracking from here in Vancouver. Second shot indicates how many telemetry packets my station, VE7AFV, managed to capture. I'm determined to outdo N3UOO at least once! For now I'm using a Yagi TV antenna which is less than ideal.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A little APRS action from the ISS. The second shot shows all the APRS action over the past 24 h. It is very little! Perhaps @arissintl.bsky.social needs to reconsider running this at all on 70 cm. I know it is stop-gap because of a dysfunctional radio but is it worth it for such little use.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Haven't seen this USAF Rivet Joint TC-135W training platform in a while. Out of Crete and perhaps stopping in the UK. OLIVE27, 62-4127, #AE1254.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Captured four audio transmissions from cubesat HADES-SA aka SO-127. Using 5-element Yagi aimed S and inclined at 45 degrees. SDRplay RSPdx tuner controlled by SkyRoof by @VE3NEA.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

SpaceX has impressively fast post-mortems on test flights, not to mention the already impressively short timeframes between launches.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Too much for the rain gauge. 5 mm beyond the top graduation but ahead of the fluted top so let's call it 45 mm! My location is near the confluence of the Pitt and Fraser Rivers in Metro Vancouver.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Another view of the atmospheric river event bringing rain to SW BC and yellow ECCC warnings to parts of the region. This view from METEOR M2-4, about 800 km up, at 3:36 PM today. We also see hints of Hurricane Polo at the lower right.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A keeper image for a desktop/screensaver. GOES-18 crop from today's "blue marble" shot at 2030 UTC / 1:30 PM PCT. Showcasing a bevy of storms/hurricanes as well as a bit of an atmospheric river event bringing rain to Metro Vancouver. Received and processed with my own ground station.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

What a gorgeous image. Today's "blue marble" full disk shot from GOES-18 at around 2030 UTC / 1:30 PM PCT. As received and processed via 1.7 GHz radio signal in Vancouver. So much activity in the eastern and northern Pacific today.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Latest views from Hurricanes #Nolo (first two images) and #Polo. Received and processed via 1.7 GHz radio signal with my own ground station in Vancouver. Using here Channel 02 and false color. Mesoscale shots.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Canforce1 with Canadian PM Mark Carney aboard inbound for Vancouver. Shown here in various tracking views, including from my own antenna (image 1).

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Here's how it went for overnight Shortwave Radiogram session on WRMI, 5850 kHz, 0800-0830 UTC, as monitored in Vancouver. Most text was captured. However only 5 out of 10 images decoded. Still, those are lovely. Also showing the images captured from last week's broadcast. Both were railways themed.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

All set for the overnight @swradiogram.bsky.social broadcast over WRMI, 5850 kHz, 0800-0830 UTC. Monitoring in Vancouver. Featuring stories and pictures of Canadian railways, produced by @popshopradio.bsky.social. Using FLdigi, two instances, to decode the MFSK32/64 transmissions.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Checking up on #Nolo (Hawaii) and #Polo (Baja, Mexico) through the home GOES-18 ground station here in Vancouver. These shots are from around 2150 UTC / 2:50 PM PCT. Odalys is fading in terms of tropical storm strength. Showing here crops from full disk false color and Ch 13 Enhanced.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two lovelies from METEOR M2-4, first at 2:18 PM PCT as the satellite passed well E of Metro Vancouver (note the Manitoba lakes), and second at 3:58 PM as the satellite passed W of the city. Gorgeous day here in SW BC! @weathergoddess.bsky.social @seattlewxguy.bsky.social

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Father - son. But I'm using the Canadianism, floatplane!

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

GOES-18 mesoscale shots from the home ground station here in Vancouver. First two are Ch 02 and false color for #Nolo, showing the Hawaiian Islands, second two are the same for #Polo, showing Baja Mexico. These snapshots at around 3 PM PCT / 2200 UTC. @spann.bsky.social

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

RAF busy with various flgihts across Europe and beyond this Sunday evening. Particularly interesting is the executive jet flight in the fourth image. Snapshots at 1925z. @steffanwatkins.bsky.social @borrowed7time.bsky.social

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From cubesat HADES-SA overnight. Four SSDV snippets, although nothing recognizable, and this audio snippet. Perhaps someone has decoded it. As monitored in Vancouver using 5 element Yagi aimed S and inclined at 45 degrees, SDRplay RSPdx, SkyRoof by @ve3nea.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

APRS acivity on the ISS, since the move to 70 cm from 2 m, is very low. Here's a look basically at the last 24 h. All the highlighted blocks represent my monitoring station here in Vancouver either hearing a raw packet from RS0ISS or digipeating someone's packet. Here's my snapshot at 0140 UTC.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Latest GOES-18 imagery via mesoscale shots, all around 2200 UTC / 3 PM PCT, as received and processed with my own 1.7 GHz ground station here in Vancouver. Ch 02, Ch 07 Enhanced, Ch 13 Enhanced, composite false color.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Stunning shot, METEOR M2-4 at 2:39 PM PCT. Via 137 MHz radio signal into my ground station here in Metro Vancouver, where we have a beautiful Saturday. See if you can spot: The Great Salt Lake, the Salton Sea, that massive shelf cloud over Saskatchewan.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A little SSDV action from HADES-SA aka SO-127 (BTW, not on the AMSAT status page I believe). Check bottom right hand corner here in SkyRoof. One frame shows a CRC error.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This morning's success tracking a radiosonde (weather balloon) all the way to 35,000 m. Launched from WA State's Quillayute Airport, Olympic Peninsula, transmit telemetry on 404.6 MHz. Here you see some of the telemetry, and a signals coverage map. @spann.bsky.social

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fallout from Cambridge Analytica, almost a decade later. Meta continues to pile up legal losses. A Meta spokesperson said the company disagreed with the verdict and would continue to defend itself "against efforts to distort our record." www.reuters.com/business/met...

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Meta misled users about Facebook data practices, New Mexico jury finds

A jury in Santa Fe, New Mexico, found on Friday that Meta Platforms misled the state's residents in a case arising from allegations that a political consulting firm involved in Donald Trump's 2016 pr...

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Finally some ISS APRS action. Here my monitoring station has iGated a number of packets from the ISS, mostly from fellow BC amateur radio operator, VA7LM, up in Kitimat. Monitoring in SkyRoof. iGating through Direwolf.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Closeup of Hurricane Nolo, skirting the Big Island, Hawaii, this afternoon Mesoscale M2 GOES-18 image received and processed via 1.7 GHz radio signal with my ground station here in Vancouver. Image taken at 2036 UTC / 1:36 PM PCT.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Once again we have three major hurricanes in the eastern Pacific, from L to R Nolo (skirting the Big Island, Hawaii, this afternoon, and farther E Odalys and Polo, both of which are expected to have significant impact for Mexico and the US SW.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Latest #HurricanePolo warnings and mappings from the US National Hurricane Center. @spann.bsky.social @weathergoddess.bsky.social

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Just published... "What a week, month, four months it has been: from Magnifica Humanitas to AI guardrails." techwise.petervogel.ca/p/what-a-wee...

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What a week, month, four months it has been: from Magnifica Humanitas to AI guardrails.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Radiosonde in range. Nearing Duncan on Vancouver Island. Approaching maximum altitude before balloon bursts, ~35,000 m.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Two excellent shots from the METEOR twins, first at 11 AM from M2-3 and second, with lots of vertical range, from M2-4 at 3:22 PM, minutes ago. Vancouver is under that cloud swath bringing us rain from Thursday into Friday. Received and processed via 137 MHz radio signal into my own ground station.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Didn't get much but at least I got something from the RS40S / UmKA-1 SSTV transmission recognizing the birthday of satellite operator R4UAB. Automated capture overnight here in Vancouver. No tracking. Antenna aimed S and inclined at 45 degrees.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on UR-ABA heading back from UNGA in New York. What a workhorse this plane has been. Meanwhile, simultaneously, Israeli PM Netanyahu is westbound on XA001 heading for the United States. Snapshots at 0415z.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Who remembers? milliondollarhomepage.com

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