Local Date

18 January 2024

Local Time

09:26

Location

The balcony of my flat, Wien

Country or Territory

Austria

Name

Soph Dyer

Satellite

NOAA-19

Radio Callsign

M6NYX

Archive ID

ow190

I tried the loop antenna again, this time squashing it into a folded dipole. The result was not good. Despite the near overhead position of the satellite, I could barely hear its transmission. I experimented with orientating the antenna vertically and horizontally.
The temperature feels a warm 2–5 degrees this morning. It is raining lightly.
Over WhatsApp, my brother sent a photo of the sun rise off the coast of Cornwall. In return, my mum shared a photo of her frosty garden. In both photos, the sky was clear. Yet an hour later my sister’s partner sent a video of large snow flakes falling in Truro. The weather in the UK is so much more changeable than in Austria. Here we have steady, continental weather. British weather is sea weather.

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