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2025-04-04 19:22:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-04 12:14:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-04 12:00:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-04 08:21:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-03 23:09:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-03 22:02:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-03 19:49:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-03 12:50:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-03 11:02:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-03 10:54:00

Cyprus Amateur Radio Society

Nicosia , Cyprus

2025-04-03 08:49:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-03 08:28:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-02 22:51:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-02 22:15:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-02 22:15:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-04-02 19:34:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-02 12:30:00

Arbroath, Scotland

At 12.30 the ground station recorded this pass. At 13.00 I was on the other side of town and heard a sonic boom. Squinted up in the sun to see two low flying jets at high speed, heading out to sea, leaving white trails on a bright blue sky. We aren't far from a military base, after all. Around 15.00 I head to the tower for some checks: increase buffer mins to 2, ensure ventilation around the AGS, check antenna's position. On the roof this time the puddles have dried up and the sky is clear. Some of the old bricks holding the tarp in place have Arbroath imprinted on them, and I wonder when and where in the town they were made. Just a small cold breeze to remind that it's spring, not summer. Daffodils almost seem luminescent in the strong light. Around 16.00 I'm down at the beach, the tide is high, almost all the way up to the sea wall. There's a dead seal that's lost its head and a solid pink plastic bottle left on the stair pillar like an extra ornate twirl. It looks recently left and goes in the bin, the seal looks like it's been there a while.

2025-04-02 11:15:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-02 10:52:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-02 09:15:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-02 08:57:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-01 23:05:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-01 22:38:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-01 22:28:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-01 22:28:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-04-01 21:47:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-04-01 19:25:00

Seattle, United States

2025-04-01 11:27:51

Sasha Engelmann

Nicosia, Cyprus

We drive up the road to the English School Radio Club at dust, the sky a soft purple-blue, and a tower with several Yagi antennas comes into view. At ground level are two bungalows, one with the historical 'home' of the English School Radio Club, and a new renovated bungalow used today, as the older structure is failing. Nestor (President of the Cyprus Amateur Radio Society) and Demetris (President of the Nicosia Chapter of the Cyprus Amateur Radio Society) tell me of the history of the club, the days when one had to call the fire department to be lifted on a raised platform to fix the antenna. They have a cabinet full of hundreds and hundreds of QSL cards, written postcards that confirmed amateur radio contacts between operators around the world. "There are some here from countries that no longer exist!" they tell me, and I immediately find myself spreading out hundreds of QSL cards from the former Yugoslavia on a peeling green table. Next door, we power up the transceivers and I make three QSOs (radio amateur contacts) with hams in Slovenia, Hungary and Barcelona. I speak the longest to the amateur in Barcelona, who tells me my contact is 'excellent' and makes good wishes to me and my family. While we listen and tune the radio, I hear many other stories of amateur radio on Cyprus, of speaking to amateurs in Syria, Egypt, Turkey and Iran, and of the politics of amateur radio and current educational programmes aimed to be inclusive to women and girls. The radio is so clear and engrossing - voice rising clearly on SSB through the 'whoosh' of the spectrum - that we are late for our dinner reservation.

2025-04-01 11:05:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-04-01 09:16:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-04-01 09:13:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-31 23:17:00

Seattle, United States

2025-03-31 22:40:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-31 19:27:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-31 12:58:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-31 12:19:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-31 11:41:09

Sasha Engelmann

Nicosia, Cyprus

Teaching undergraduate UK geography students in Nicosia, Cyprus is an experience of a clash between worlds- the worlds of Greek and Turkish Cypriots living across checkpoints and buffer zones, and those of students eager to extract 'data' on life in a divided city. Standing on the beach of the suburb of Varosha, yesterday, our guide Georgia pointed to her apartment building, framed by two once-regal hotels, to which she she has not been able to return, like all residents of Varosha, since the Turkish army arrived in 1974. She was due to be married on the day she had to leave her town. She points out fields that once boasted dense orange groves, and speaks about the tradition of making sculptures from oranges in the shapes of dolphins and other animals. She shows us the shop that had the "best cheese sandwich of the 70s- a delicacy", and the boutique where women would buy fur coats. An abandoned kiosk marks the place where Varosha first served soft ice cream. There is an eeriness both to being in such places on a research trip, and to seeing the ruins being photographed by the numerous passerby and members of the public. Many pose in front of dilapidated photo shops and ruined movie theatres. We speak about ruins, aesthetics, dark tourism and what the gesture of taking a selfie in Varosha means. It is unseasonably warm in Cyprus, as most residents tell us- at least ten degrees above the average temperature of springtime. Saharan dust arrived in Nicosia over the weekend.

2025-03-31 11:18:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-30 23:30:00

Seattle, United States

Our inaugural recording for our AGS came at the tail end of a string of storms, including thunderstorms and hail, which are rare for Seattle let alone in March.

2025-03-30 23:05:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-30 23:02:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-30 19:53:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-30 12:31:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-30 11:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-29 23:17:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-29 22:14:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-29 20:16:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-29 18:39:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-28 23:27:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-28 20:38:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-28 12:04:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-28 10:48:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-28 10:46:00

Arbroath, Scotland

Today I visited the antenna on top of the tower after it was installed yesterday (thanks to Ross and Kirsten!). There's a bright enough sun to squint but not enough to warm the body, just flush my face. Or that could be the walk up spiralling stairway and the sudden exposure to wind. The AGS is further down the stairs, in the collections store room, just next to the Victorian telescope that I'm told is rumoured to have be used out here on the tower. Now, the gleaming copper v-dipole antenna is standing firm – just a slight wibble in its arms in the gusting wind. Strapped to the eroding sandstone. A lightning rod is a nearby companion, a much older installation. Strong shadows and pools of water sit on the roof from last night's rain. Fast moving clouds make a repeating rhythm of sensations, like drum beats. One beat sun, one beat rain flecks, beat cloud, beat sun, beat rain etc. The wind buffeting is a constant through the day. The sea is silvery in the distance with a slightly hazy horizon. Looking down to ground level, daffodils smile back. Dots of primrose. Bluebells are on the cusp. Perhaps less distinct waves of their flowering than in the past. The beats quicken. Up here it's just me, but down from the tower it's a busy day, the garden club volunteers have lots of spring jobs to do, the Travelling Gallery bus is visiting, the cafe is packed, and there's more going on than I know about. I shout to Andy (who drives the bus) – he can't hear me over the wind, but I take a photo.

2025-03-28 10:08:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-28 08:19:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-27 23:40:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-27 20:53:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-27 19:32:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-27 18:31:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-27 12:24:38

KLIDEN FLORES LIMA

Satellite: NOAA 15 Pass Start: 27 Mar 2025 12:24:38 GMT Pass Duration: 14:55 Elevation: 54 Azimuth: 281 Solar Elevation: 14.8 Direction: southbound Creation Time: 27 Mar 2025 12:26:28 GMT Satellite Type: NOAA Channel A: 2 (near infrared) Channel B: 4 (thermal infrared) Enhancement: HVCT Ground Station: LIMA, PERU/South America My experience was pleasant because in my exact location there are no weather problems, but in other latitudes of my country there are weather crises of various types.

2025-03-27 10:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

First daytime image from the antenna at Hospitalfield. Weather: Increasingly drizzly and windy from the start of the day. Hoods up. Rain that sounds like it might be hail. Dry ground means big puddles.

2025-03-26 23:09:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-26 21:05:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-26 18:59:00

Arbroath, Scotland

2025-03-26 18:57:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-26 18:17:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-26 12:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-26 08:38:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-25 22:19:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-25 21:16:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-25 20:35:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-25 20:20:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-25 10:53:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-25 10:18:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-24 21:45:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-24 20:48:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-24 11:48:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-24 11:08:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-24 11:06:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-23 22:40:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-23 21:00:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

It is the third day after the spring equinox. When spring arrives, we tend to know with a certainty that perhaps only the onset of autumn compares. I woke to bird song. It was only 5 am yet a Blackbird's voice cut through the night. I have seen the Blackbird during the day, perched on the balcony railing next to the bedroom window. It sung for perhaps 10 or 15 minutes before other birds joined, and the dawn chorus kicked in. I lay in bed in the greying light and wondered: how does the first bird know when to sing? It felt as if the Blackbird had sung up the sun, not the other way around.

2025-03-23 19:36:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-23 18:36:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-23 10:08:54

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Equipment troubles finally subsided for today's pass, resulting in a pleasingly expansive view of Europe and parts of North Africa. One interesting aside is that the wind was such that it blew through small gaps in the antenna, making distinctly musical notes in the process - can imagine a speculative art project in which the antenna is turned into a sort of instrument, working alongside the distinct notes of the NOAA transmission coming in. It would be quite the composition!

2025-03-22 23:07:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-22 18:21:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-22 10:23:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-22 10:21:07

Sasha Engelmann

Hackney Downs, London, United Kingdom

"That's so MacGyver!" says a blonde woman with a dog when I explain my tape-measure Yagi-Uda antenna. She and her friend / partner chat to me for a few minutes and walk off yelling back funding schemes that open-weather could apply to. "Welcome Trust.... Discovery Grant! Check it out!" I hear as they leave audible distance. I wonder if I've just met an arts and culture boss of some kind. I had come out to the park around 10:20am to catch a NOAA-19 pass that would pass over London at 90 degrees in maximum elevation- an elevation I have only rarely seen in my whole career capturing satellite images. A boy's football team is practising in my usual spot, so my reception is perhaps not as perfect as it normally is when I can see a perfect diagonal North-South across the Downs. Spring is everywhere today, in shooting daffodils and unfurling leaves. A twiggy plant that I had previously identified as a Serbian Lilac in my front garden reveals itselt to be a sycamore tree as its leaves unfold.

2025-03-21 23:20:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-21 22:16:00

Goownown Growers The Seaweed Institute

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-21 21:36:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-21 20:25:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-21 12:25:30

Richard A Carter

University of York, Campus East, United Kingdom

Software problems caused frequent glitches in the audio stream, resulting in this rather "striated" sounding, despite an otherwise excellent signal. A reminder, if there ever was, of the fragile chain of material structures and processes that enable these activities - and of how this fragility emerges from their status as constantly performing 'agents' in the world, rather than the typical image of technology as always fully tamed, always fully obedient to human imperatives.

2025-03-21 12:25:10

Simeon Lok, Ella Richards, Rosie Everitt, Lena Prollochs, Millie Twist, Prinali Dilipo, Zhe Long Ou, Elinam Hammond, Maryam Ahmadi, and Sasha Engelmann,

Royal Holloway University , United Kingdom

It was overcast and dry. Some sun was peaking through. It got a bit windy at times, but there was usually a nice gentle breeze. It was about sixteen degrees Celsius. The satellite pass was really interesting to see. The experience was quite grounding - being connected to an orbiting machine in the sky.

2025-03-20 22:45:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-03-20 22:30:00

The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, United Kingdom

2025-03-20 12:09:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-20 12:06:00

Gilboa, New York, United States

2025-03-20 10:43:00

The Seaweed Institute and Goonown Growers

CAST, Helston, Cornwall, UK

2025-03-20 10:08:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

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