Local Date

15 June 2025

Local Time

22:41

Location

Legoli

Country or Territory

Italy

Name

Eliot Lambert, Domi Rybova, Greta Weston, and Barbara Mele

Satellite

NOAA-19

Archive ID

ow2451

Coordinates

41.89, 12.48

This is the first time I've picked up a NOAA satellite pass outside of NYC - I'm on a holiday with my close friends in rural Italy and it is unbelievably peaceful here - the dawn chorus/sound of cicadas at night is a far cry from the noise pollution of NYC...we just discovered a new birdsong from a Eurasian Nightjar - and it sounded like clockwork - or a faint chainsaw - it was beautiful and bizarre...I was scared we wouldn't pick up the NOAA 19 signal but after initial static it was so clear and was joyful to introduce my friends to SDR/to this methodology - one of my friends held the antenna for 15 minutes with impressive stillness - and we took a collective pause. And then to experience the decoded APT and the ephemeral cloud formations that emerged!! The last 6 minutes of the transmission were filled with static as seen on the bottom of the image - but I think I like that!

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