Local Date

21 February 2024

Local Time

08:10

Location

Wave Farm, Acra, New York

Country or Territory

United States

Name

Sasha Engelmann and Sophie Dyer

Satellite

NOAA-15

Radio Callsign

M6IOR and M6NYX

Archive ID

ow246

Wave Farm was quiet on this Wednesday morning in February except for the 'whoosh' of sometimes-passing cars on route 23, and the chirping of finches and other birds. The grass outside the Wave Farm building was white and crunchy with frost. We were late to set up for the NOAA 15 pass , but as both our ground stations launched, NOAA-15's signal virtually lept into the waterfall displays on our laptops. We shuddered with cold as the pass progressed. The image captured from the V-dipole antenna I was using shows the outline of the east coast of the US and the impressively large fingerprints of the great lakes.

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