Local Date
21 February 2024Local Time
08:10Location
Wave Farm, Acra, New YorkCountry or Territory
United StatesName
Sasha Engelmann and Sophie DyerSatellite
NOAA-15Radio 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.