Local Date

21 December 2024

Local Time

11:40

Location

Old golf course next to W Newberry Road, Gainesville

Country or Territory

United States

Name

Sasha Engelmann

Satellite

NOAA-18

Radio Callsign

M6IOR

Archive ID

ow905

A clear, cool, breezy day here in Florida. We stand on separate hills in the former golf course, one of us with a turnstile antenna, another with a v-dipole. Later, comparing images, we notice how there is a clear line at the midpoint of the turnstile's image that doesn't appear in the image made with the dipole. This line is appearing at almost the same spot in previous images collected with the same laptop and antenna - a signature of the laptop? or a glitch in antenna reception, at the peak of the satellite pass? Later in the day, we test the same antenna from the roof, shaded by southern live oaks. As there is no wind or rain predicted, we tape it to an old camera tripod found in the garage, simply stand it up on the roof's apex, and run a cable through a crack in a window.

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