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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 15h

Two different spectral settings (221, 321) for this fine 3:55 PM transmission from METEOR M2-4 as the satellite passed well W of Metro Vancouver. Beautiful day here in SW BC. @weatherwest.bsky.social @weathergoddess.bsky.social @spann.bsky.social

Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 20h

So long Patullo Bridge. Yesterday members of Ironworkers Local 97, and others, cut loose the main span and lowered it to a set of barges on the Fraser River below. Since November 1937 the Patullo has been a major part of Metro Vancouver's roads network. @bobmackin.bsky.social

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Vancouver Sunday morning with two beautiful views to the east across a fog-draped Fraser Valley with Mount Baker on the horizon.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

UmKA-1 / RS40S continuing to put on an SSTV show this weekend. Here we see a just completed image in Robot36 mode as the satellite passes E of Metro Vancouver. Using 5-element Yagi aimed S and inclined up at 45 degrees, SkyRoof control software, SDRplay RSPdx tuner.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Four fine shots from the METEOR twins, M2-4 and M2-3. As received and processed in Vancouver via 137 MHz radio signal, ranging from late afternoon to early morning. 2-4 is delivering in 321 mode so we have the turquoise coloration for ice/snow. @spann.bsky.social

Wow! HF poor! Auroral conditions good! Will it last for North American evening time? Check out those Bz and Bt swings in the upper right panel.

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More goodies from RS40S / UmKA-1 overnight and into today. Three images from the 10:50 AM local pass here in Vancouver (1750 UTC) with the 5-element Yagi in a static position, aimed S and inclined up at 45 degrees. These are among my best images ever from this satellite.

Zap! Earth hit by a CME, driving magnetic filed readings to ~40 nT, biggest in recent couple of years. Now dropping back. Those in Europe or Asia may want to check the skies!

SkyRoof continues to impress. Overnight a fine image from UmKA-1, and another audio file from HADES-SA. Nothing from LUCA-1. Second image shows the SSTV decodes over the past month or so, mostly from the ISS SSTV event. Using a 5-el Yagi aimed S and inclined at 45 degrees feeding an SDRplay RSPdx.

Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Fascinating live video feed from London Heathrow Airport. www.youtube.com/live/SgvpyjQ...

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Just a couple of millimeters of rain overnight in my part of Metro Vancouver but gusty winds from the early morning continuing into this afternoon. Note the sharp cloud edge/shelf which passed through earlier. Great shot at 10:11 AM from METEOR M2-3 via 137 MHz radio signal.

Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Gorgeous shot from METEOR M2-4 at 3:19 PM and an almost directly overhead pass for Metro Vancouver. Beautiful day here. Marine cloud along almost the entire W coast of North America. This shot doesn't capture the turmoil from #Rachel and #Simon, just out of range to the S.

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Rachel - Simon - Isaias ... family portrait. Spot the tropical storms / hurricanes in this fine shot from GOES-18 snapped at 2130 UTC / 2:30 PM PCT. Received and processed via 1.7 GHz radio signal to my home ground station here in Vancouver. @spann.bsky.social @weathergoddess.bsky.social

TRIUMF - UBC - SFU Saturday Physics Lecture Series. Saturday Morning Lectures is an all-ages public lecture series that explores the role of physics at the leading edge of science, from the infinitesimally small world within the atomic nucleus to the furthest reaches of the known Universe!

Checking in on King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at 2115z / 12:15 AM Friday morning local time. ADSBexchange shows nothing, other than a parked aircraft. FR24 does show landings and takeoffs occuring, following earlier missile attacks which destroyed at least one plane.

Zap! Strong M6.8 partly earth-directed flare causes HF radio blackout conditions on sun-facing side of Earth (most of South America). Stay tuned for CME effects.

"Eye of the Pacific" shot from GOES-18 1500 UTC, with annotations for the two tropical storms / hurricanes of interest this weekend. Simon, with a track on Puerto Vallarta, and Isaias with a track on the Floida Panhandle. As received and processed with my own ground station in Vancouver.

Reaching new heights. Canadian company’s first satellite exceeds expectations

NordSpace gets its first satellite to orbit but has yet to accomplish that with its own rocket. More interesting is its project lineup, including a lunar rover named Terry, for Terry Fox. www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/com...

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An Ontario-based company that’s building its own rockets says its first satellite in orbit is working well after hitching a ride on an American rocket.

Beautiful shot from METEOR M2-64 at 3:41 PM this afternoon as the satellite passed W of my Metro Vancouver ground station. Wonderful day here after morning fog burned off. Large high pressure zone still holding along the coast. @weathergoddess.bsky.social @paul-vk2ahb.bsky.social

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Glancing at HF signals propagation and space weather metrics from Vancouver through HamClock (images 1, 2), PSKreporter.info for FT8 monitoring over past 24 h (image 3), and WSPR.rocks for 20 m WSPR monitoring over past 24 h (image 4). Conditions improving. @n4jaw.bsky.social @hamradiotoday.org

Beautiful shot from METEOR M2-3 at 10:58 AM this morning. Note the extensive fog blanketing Puget Sound as well as much of Salish Sea and Metro Vancouver. Received and processed via 137 MHz radio signal into my own ground station. Check out interesting cloud arc off NoCal, possibly ship "contrail".

Data from this morning's radiosonde launched from WA State's Quillayute Airpot on the Olympic Peninsula. As tracked from my home station here in Metro Vancouver. I've included some extra data shots showing temperature, velocities etc. The sonde came down around 6:15 AM local. @spann.bsky.social

Two beauties received and processed at the home weather satellite ground station. [1] METEOR M2-4 from 800 km up, with Vancouver at centre, left. [2] GOES-18 from geostationary location 35,000 km above the equator. Both images are from around 2130 UTC / 2:30 PM PCT.

Seems the ISS APRS 70 cm repeater is in full action once again. It was piggybacking along with the SSTV event but we can see here it is back on 437.825 MHz. Highlighted are packets iGated by my station, VE7AFV-9 here in Vancouver during passes over the past 24 h.

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Not sure if these are two separate events but with the ISS SSTV event now concluded it's time to look at some of the many amateur radio cubesats. Here we see a new event announced, and an image I captured yesterday from UmKA-1 aka RS40S.

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Tracking radiosonde Y2032204 this morning following its launch from Quillayute Airport on WA States's Olympic Peninsula. My receiver here in Vancouver pulled in 354 telemetry packets. Note the 117 km/h maximum speed reached by the balloon, at around 13,000 m.

From the Facebook page "The Essential Geography of the United States of America": X marks the spot in the contiguous United States which is farthest from a McDonald's. In this case ~120 miles (by air) from the three circled locations. Note that the X is close to Area 51.

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Another beautiful day across a swath of western North America. Fine day here in Metro Vancouver, albeit cooler than yesterday. Lovely shot from METEOR M2-4 at 2:44 PM as received and processed via 137 MHz radio signal to the home ground station.

Nobel Prize #1: Physiology or Medicine "...light-gated ion channels and optogenetics".

So much going on with amateur radio and satellites. SkyRoof by @ve3nea is a game changer. Look at what we have this morning: ISS SSTV, an image from cubesat UmKA-1, an audio message from cubesat HADES-SA, and some APRS packets from the ISS.

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Setup for my 20 m WSPR and SSTV monitoring station. Using one SDRplay RSPdx with two VRX instances. SDRuno, JTDX, RX-SSTV. Showing three "extra" WSPR packets from amateur radio balloons being picked uop this morning. MLA-30+ loop antenna. @ve7sar.bsky.social @hamradioworld.bsky.social

Success! With the overnight @SWRadiogram program on WRMI, 5850 kHz, 0800-0830 UTC. Pulled in 11 images and nearly all the text, across the two modes used. Thanks @kaedotcom. The past three weeks have been my best in a couple of years. @popshopradio.bsky.social @swradiogram.bsky.social

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Lots of HF action on bands 10 through 80 m! Here's the mapping for FT8 signals into Vancouver at 1540 UTC. Quite a bit of space weather activity over past 24 h. Mapping in HamClock.

More tracking of a radiosonde (weather balloon) launched from Washington State's Quillayute Airport on the Olympic Peninsula. RS41 Y2032981. Only managed a few frames of telemetry data. 404.6 MHz. Using a TV Yagi antenna aimed S. Ballon came down in Olympic National Park around 6 AM local.

Hot off the other antenna, for 137 MHz radio signals from METEOR M2-4. Look at that West Coast fog/marine cloud. What a lovely day here in Metro Vancouver. 22 C away from the water, possibly higher in the Fraser Valley.

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Complete! 12 out of 12 for the ISS Expedition 75 ARISS Series 33 SSTV Event , and, fittingly, on October 4, the anniversary of the beginning of the Space age with the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957. Also showing two certificates, and a shot of my software setup using SkyRoof.

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Hot off the antenna at the home ground station here in Metro Vancouver. Beautiful full disk, maximum illumination, false color shot from GOES-18. This view of the Pacific is always stunning and captivating. Shot taken at 2100 UTC and beamed down at 2123 UTC (2:23 PCT).

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Morning beauty from METEOR M2-3 at 10:27 AM. Note the fog-filled valleys in the BC Interior, and fog over the Salish Sea and the Puget Sound area. All burnt off by the noon hour. Spectacular day in the region.

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Getting there! Have 11 of 12 ISS SSTV images from Expedition 75 Series 33. Still need Image #5, and #4 is a bit rough. Showing my setup with SkyRoof, and also two certificates. Thank you @arissintl.bsky.social and others behind this project.

Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Today's weather satellite beauty from my Vancouver ground station. From METEOR M2-3 at 10:50 AM this morning. Directly overhead pass, ~800 km up. Beautiful day here in Metro Vancouver, temperatures up to 23 C, cloudless skies. @vlad_rad has been calling this for some time now :)

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Looking good for the Expedition 75 Series 33 ISS SSTV event. I'm up to 8 images so far, and two certificates. QTH: Vancouvver. Using 5-element Yagi, mostly aimed S, SDRplay RSPdx tuner, SkyRoof software. @ve7sar.bsky.social @arissintl.bsky.social @paul-vk2ahb.bsky.social @hamradioworld.bsky.social

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Good morning Metro Vancouver. Fog rising over the Fraser River, a glimpse of Mount Baker on the horizon, and a jet contrail. Ahead of a warm day here.

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Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Fine summary of HF signals propagation conditions along with space weather metrics through HamClock. Here we have both Mercator and Azimuthal projections. Also shown are FT8 and WSPR monitoring maps for past 24 h (although PSKreporter is limiting hours displayed). DE VE7AFV CN89 Vancouver. At 2015

Peter Vogel @petervogel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What we have so far from one pass for the current ISS SSTV event, Expedition 75 ARISS Series 33. Three good images, 6-8, and also three duplicates of lesser quality. @n4jaw.bsky.social @ve7sar.bsky.social @hamradioworld.bsky.social