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2025-03-10 20:12:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-10 18:33:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-09 22:16:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-09 07:37:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-08 23:22:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-08 20:46:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-07 21:41:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-07 11:24:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

We've skipped from winter to summer. It's already t-shirt weather.

2025-03-06 18:38:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

2025-03-05 21:38:00

Vienna Automatic

Vienna, Austria

This is the first test transmission from the Vienna Automatic station.

2025-03-05 10:47:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-04 22:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-03-02 22:58:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-26 19:24:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-25 11:25:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-02-25 10:46:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-24 22:51:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-02-24 11:15:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-23 22:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-22 11:41:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-21 11:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-20 21:28:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-19 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-18 10:34:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-17 11:27:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-02-17 10:46:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-16 11:17:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-15 22:49:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-14 11:43:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-13 09:56:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-12 21:29:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-11 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-10 10:35:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-08 11:19:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-07 11:31:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-06 11:44:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-05 09:56:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-04 07:45:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-03 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-02 10:34:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-02-01 22:44:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-02-01 11:07:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-31 11:20:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-30 11:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-28 09:57:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-27 07:53:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-26 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-24 11:09:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-23 07:57:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-22 22:55:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-22 11:35:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-21 11:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-18 10:09:00

Automatic Ground Station 12 London

London, United Kingdom

2025-01-16 17:17:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-01-16 11:11:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-14 11:37:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-13 04:36:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-01-12 16:02:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-01-12 07:44:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-11 10:08:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-10 10:21:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-09 10:33:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-08 07:48:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-07 11:25:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-06 11:39:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-05 11:52:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

Another cool, crisp day. Turkey vultures soar on invisible updrafts in the sky. The dry grass is filled with tiny capped nuts, acorn-like but smaller. Surprisingly, dogs search them out and crunch their shells- an unlikely snack. Spanish moss hangs serenely from oak branches, sometimes reaching the ground.

2025-01-04 09:56:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

The ‘Cheshire Cat’ moon hung ponderously over the old golf course at West End in Newberry. The sky was a spectrum starting at the palest yellow to blue and violet. In the tract housing that surrounds a good part of the field, I noticed paper taped to windows with the writing facing out, like a label of completeness, while in other windows Christmas tree lights shone out. On this last of many walks in this park, I felt an eerie sense of quiet.

2025-01-03 16:14:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-01-03 10:07:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

Hurricane Idalia has haunted several conversations with locals on the west coast of Florida. In Crystal River, a sleepy seaside town known for its warm springs and manatees, the severity of Idalia was attributed to “a trifecta: king tide, full moon, west wind”. This phrase stayed with me as the New Year passed and the holidays drew to a close. Before spending time in Florida, I had little knowledge of the diversity of hurricanes and which local conditions affected their impact. Hurricane Helene apparently was a “muddy one” as it dragged up tons of mud into houses, streets and dry surfaces, and so repair was even more laborious. I heard the same person from Crystal River say that “because hurricanes tend to hit at night, you never know what’s around you”. They were pointing to Christmas Island, a small patch of land in the middle of the mouth of the river that had been the site of a single house before Idalia- after the storm hit, locals could only make out the Christmas lights strung up around the darkened house, hence its name. It was bought and rebuilt in 2024, right before Helene hit, and now stands crumbling and empty. We also passed a line up of sail boats in the rivermouth, two of which had sunk during Helene, their sailing masts pointing out of the water crookedly. “They didn’t tie up properly for the hurricane” we learned. Yet dozens of other boats were peacefully anchored adjacent and around the sunken ones. Their owners had stayed on their boats during the storm.

2025-01-02 21:39:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2025-01-02 18:37:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2025-01-02 10:20:00

Filip Shatlan and Diana Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

Migrating sandhill cranes, common apple snails and wild Spanish horses emerged from the tall grass and reeds of Paynes Prairie on a hike yesterday afternoon. The air was much cooler and crisper than previous days, and the humidity dropped from 90% to 50%. We came across an impression in the mud, the outline and texture of which looked strikingly like the sideways body of a pig. There were even tiny lines that looked like fur, and hoof prints where it got up after rolling around. The Paynes Prairie visitor centre had boasted a large poster of a wild boar with very black fur and gleaming eyes, and the title on top of the image said, in bold letters, 'Alien invaders'. Another section of the educational exhibit had information on the history of the prairie, and featured a wall sized display about Seminole and Potano Indigenous communities. Amidst information on Seminole pottery, hunting tools and agriculture, one sentence acknowledged that: "Seminole populations declined in the 18th and 19th centuries due to war, disease and land dispossession". But which wars? Which diseases? Land dispossession by who? These questions and answers were absent.

2025-01-01 10:33:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

Today marks the official permanent installation of the Gainesville Automatic Satellite Ground Station on the roof! We did one more test of two AGS's (15 and 12) running in parallel and receiving the same satellite shortly after 10:30am from the roof. Both received stunningly clear images, even though the pass was only around 65 degrees at max elevation. One V-dipole was mounted on the permanent installation site, and Steve held the second. The former received an image with less interference, which made sense, given it had nothing around it to possibly affect the antenna's radiation pattern. After drilling a pilot hole through the PVC that holds the antenna to the (now waterproof) wooden mast, we used a wood screw to solidly connect the two. We stretched out the RG8X coaxial cable throughout the backyard to make sure there were no kinks, and screwed one end into the base of the antenna on the roof, using zip ties to hold the cable against the mast. Following one edge of the roof, we bolted the cable down with small cable brackets, and looped it under the garage door overhang, following the edge of the moulding around the door to the floor, where we hooked it under a piece of wood. Steve drilled away some of the wood on the inside part of the garage door corner, where we passed the cable through to the inside, testing the garage door could open and close without causing any friction. We then bracketed the cable to the moulding along the bottom of the garage wall to the corner where there is a work desk and a power plug. We had a good metre and a half of cable left, and gently looped this around twice. After the cable was stretched out and secured, we returned to the roof, where we oriented the V-dipole to 'true north' using a professional compass, which meant we had to apply a 6 degree West declination (based on the difference between magnetic North and true North from our position in Florida). One of us oriented the antenna with the compass while the other screwed the wooden mast tightly into the steel mount with two screws. We also wrapped the UHF connector at the end of the coaxial cable with some vinyl electrical tape to protect it from UV radiation and water damage. Back inside, we cleaned up the wood shavings, glue, and spare screws. As we didn't have any extra 3D print casings for the Florida AGS, we DIY-ed a small cardboard box, and hooked up AGS 15 in its corner. It lit up, and let us know that it was going to collect a NOAA-15 pass shortly before 7pm this evening!

2025-01-01 05:54:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2024-12-31 14:02:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2024-12-30 11:28:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

We were late in plugging-in the semi-permanently mounted V-dipole antenna to the 'recording' AGS, but happy to see it standing on the peak of the garage roof, glinting orange-pink in the sunlight, without anyone attempting to hold it in place, as it received an image from NOAA-18. After several antenna radiation pattern calculations, we decided to try a test antenna height of 0.8 metres off the pinnacle of the roof. While some radio forums suggest putting the antenna as high as possible, others suggest this is not necessary, especially if one is already mounting on a semi-conductive wooden roof (as opposed to concrete or steel). Depending on what surface the v-dipole antenna takes as 'ground', the antenna height can create different patterns of reception, and can even lead to 'null' points where no signal data can be received. However, as Gainesville can get very strong, hurricane force winds, and we couldn't see many examples of tall antennas or rooftop weathervanes in the neighbourhood, we opted to keep the antenna height under one metre, and 0.8 seemed to work great today, despite our lateness. To secure the antenna mast to the roof, we used a steel 'weathervane' mount with special wood screws with deep ribbons that we had gotten at the local ACE hardware store, and a good coating of a transparent sealant gel called, somewhat counter-intuitively, 'Through the Roof!' We managed to hit a stud with one side of the steel mount, which was a good sign for the sturdiness of the antenna, but also meant that the drill pushed further into the roof on the stud side of the mount, and slightly unbalanced the mount. We unscrewed, knocked some wooden 'shims' under the metal pad at the stud side, and checked its straightness by hanging a roll of tape on a golden ribbon next to the mast. Tomorrow, hopefully, we will be able to tie the RF cable onto the mast, and bracket / secure the cable to the roof, wrapping it around the edge of the garage door and entering the garage where the AGS will stay plugged in.

2024-12-29 17:45:00

Cosmos Astronomy Club

2024-12-29 11:41:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

A huge amount of progress was made today with AGS reception! It is hard to contain the excitement while writing this weather note. After several months exploring ‘herringbone’ distortion patterns and deep diving into NOAA APT + Raspberry Pi tutorials, the team found an ‘instructable’ tutorial via which several people seemed to be receiving relatively long and clear NOAA images. In this tutorial, Grayson noticed a filter option for rtl_fm called -F 9 that we hadn’t tried to implement in the AGS code yet, and he added it in an update yesterday. Last night, the roof mounted turnstile in Florida had to be taken down due to a lightning storm and ‘extreme’ tornado warning. Yet even though it was up against a garage wall and under an overhang, the last evening pass of the day yesterday showed telemetry data at the top and bottom of the image, where previous captures only recorded static. This morning, despite an ongoing storm and tornado warning, the Turnstile was positioned out on the front lawn for a 70 degree max elevation pass shortly after 11:40. In stark contrast to previous ‘letterbox’ type images in which satellite data only appeared in the central strip of the recording, today the image is significantly longer and clearer, with telemetry data clearly showing through static at the beginning and end of the pass. Also, the typical ‘herringbone’ type distortion seen in all previous images appears to be gone! More testing will verify this but at present this is something to celebrate.

2024-12-28 04:35:00

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2024-12-27 14:06:00

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2024-12-27 09:56:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

We joked that Orlando kept getting farther away as we drove south on 75, east through Ocala National Forest, over the waters of Lake Monroe, and alongside cattle pastures and skeleton scarecrows. Rain splattered intermittently on the windshield. Billboards declared that ‘at 18 days since conception, a baby’s heart is already beating’, or ‘man up: your child needs you.’ An entire single story house rolled down the highway taking up two lanes, flanked by pickup trucks. A corner ‘yard art’ shop burst with bronze eagles, brown bears, American flags and an original Bob’s Big Boy sculpture, complete with a checkered red and white outfit and a sculptural hamburger on a plate.

2024-12-26 16:13:00

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2024-12-26 10:08:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

Florida balances over one big aquifer: a hidden cavernous water system fed by rainfall that stretches beneath the everglades, wetlands and an ecological system known as 'moist sandy pine / hardwood woodlands'. Walking through the Sweetwater Wetlands south of Gainesville yesterday, we met some of the water on its way into the depths. Today, at Rainbow Springs, an hour further south, we saw some of it come out, bubbling up through pale white-gray sand, so abundantly that it creates the Rainbow River, a wide, flat river sustaining alligators, turtles, catfish, frogs, coral snakes and other wildlife. Rainbow Springs exists because of the thinner karst rock separating the aquifer from the surface, while elsewhere in the state, the rock-shield is much thicker. The upwelling makes the water below feel very close, even reachable, but we learned that the water in the Floridan Aquifer is between 17,000 and 26,000 years old. The springs seemed otherworldly in their crystal clear shallows, ferns and mossy trees, and two impressive waterfalls cascaded over towering rocks. One of the waterfalls was named 'Seminole Falls', after local Indigenous peoples who never ceded their land. We speculated that the two tall waterfalls might have been built up as the upwelling spring water deposited minerals over thousands of years. Later a park ranger informed us that the waterfalls were entirely man-made in the 1930s, created with sediment dredged from the bottom of the springs, and that water has been power-pumped to the top of the rocks for decades, just so visitors can watch it fall.

2024-12-25 16:26:00

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2024-12-25 10:22:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

"What is this obsession with 'manned' or 'unmanned'?!" jokes Bowen Yang, playing 'A Drone' on Saturday Night Live. "For the record" Bowen continues "I can get a man whenever I want!". The skit plays on political divisions haunting thousands if not millions of American Christmas Eve dinners this year. I had not heard about the reported drone sightings prior to arriving in Florida, but they have been raised by local family members at every opportunity. "What is the government really doing?" "Remember the media explosion about that one Chinese balloon?! Now there are hundreds of drones and no one is talking about it!" Or, "I just worry about what could happen in New York on New Years Eve". Earlier in the week, when Steve and I set up the turnstile antenna on the roof of my Mom's house, a family member walked over and asked if we could listen to the drones. I decided to preserve a bit of mystery: "this is for satellites, but both satellites and drones communicate via radio waves".

2024-12-24 10:34:00

Automatic Ground Station 12 Florida

Gainesville, Florida , United States

We ran two AGS at the same time to test the difference between a weatherised V-dipole and a static mounted Turnstile on the top of the roof. The pass was around 68 degrees in maximum elevation- so not ideal, but good enough for a comparison. Steve reclined on the roof and used a spare curtain rod to hold the V-dipole in a static position for eleven minutes. We ran a spare radio cable from the V-dipole through the garage door to AGS 12, while AGS 3 stayed connected to the turnstile. Comparing the images is interesting: AGS 12 / V-dipole picked up the satellite signal a little earlier, but more bands of interference run through the start of the image. In contrast, AGS 3 / Turnstile pick up the signal later, but the middle part of the image is generally clearer. The antennas lose the signal at about the same time to the South.

2024-12-24 10:34:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

After a few hours at Florida's coast, one begins to see beyond the obvious signs of damage from Hurricane Helene to houses and infrastructure, and other more subtle signals become visible. At the edge of the marshes in Suwannee, a town at the mouth of the Suwanneee river, the land had subsided significantly. We spotted a red life jacket caught in top of a stand of high reeds near the waterline. Near the Cedar Keys museum, a bleached log had been lifted into the upper branches of a Cedar or Juniper. "Have a good time on the island- or what's left of it" said a Cedar Keys resident named Tom as we left the community garden he had set up and repaired from storm damage. We noticed how local mud clams grow in clumps, clustering on each other, rather than on rocks, like the clams and mussels of California and the UK. In the mud, the footsteps of boots traced a path to a dense outcrop of clams, presumably for a local clam harvest. Raccoon feet looked like tiny hands sunk deep in the mud. "When I was young we all used to go clam stomping" said a woman we spoke to in Cedar Keys. "You would stand in the mud and stomp your feet down over the clam. They were huge" she made a sign with her hands, fingers arranged in a large diamond shape, "nothing like what we eat today", she added.

2024-12-24 05:55:00

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2024-12-23 17:22:00

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2024-12-23 11:17:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

"How high did the water get?" asked Steve. Our waitress silently walked to the door of 'Steamers' cafe and pointed to a green line drawn on the wall above chest height. "The previous high water level was all the way down here" she added, bending all the way down to a wave pattern drawn with Sharpie about a foot off the ground. "Then Idalia was here" she said, referencing the 2023 Hurricane, and pointing to a black mark around two feet off the ground, not far from the lower mark. "We prepared for it to be somewhere in between" she said. In the midst of the bustling cafe at lunchtime, we all took a moment to look at the marks on the wall in silence. The distance between the water level that the town of Cedar Keys had prepared for, and how high the water rose during Hurricane Helene, was almost unbelievable. Later, driving through Suwaneee, another Gulf-side town north of Cedar Keys, we saw tree branches hoisted into upper tree branches, boats that appeared to have been lifted and dropped in driveways, broken windows, boarded-up holes, and debris still clinging to the upper branches of palms, cedars and other bushes. The newer houses were built on stilts 16 feet high or more - the new 'code' for building, we had learned from the waitress.

2024-12-23 10:47:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Gainesville, Florida , United States

2024-12-22 11:29:00

Sasha Engelmann Steve Engelmann

Patio Homes, Newberry , United States

Day 1 of the Florida Automatic Ground Station testing phase. A turnstile antenna is taped to a tripod sitting on the angle of the roof. An RF cable runs through a crack in the garage window to the AGS on a worktable inside.

2024-12-21 11:29:00

Arbroath, Scotland

Yellow weather warning just starting here. Bright but very very windy from 2 floors up, leaves swirling everywhere, bins falling about

2024-12-13 17:53:00

Los Angeles AGS

Los Angeles, United States

2024-12-07 20:23:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 10

I woke at around 6am to winds buffeting the flat and a car alarm going off on the street. Can winds cause car alarms? I wondered as I drifted back to a light sleep. This morning, the needle of the barometer teetered far below 1000 hPa and pointed at the diagram of a storm. Indeed Storm Darragh was already swirling across the U.K., a storm so violent that the Met Office issued a red wind warning, alerting people of the threat to life – only the 19th since 2011.

2024-12-07 05:01:00

Los Angeles AGS

Los Angeles, United States

2024-12-06 11:19:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 10

The needle on the barometer crept up from its place around 1,009 hPa yesterday afternoon to 1019 today around noon. True to the barometer, the sky opened up into a clear, crisp blue. I was reminded of Gaston Bachelard's writing on the aerial imagination, and his writing of air as 'thin matter' that is especially sensible to poets.

2024-12-05 17:52:00

Los Angeles AGS

Los Angeles, United States

2024-12-04 07:50:00

Prototype Automatic Ground Station 10

2024-12-04 06:13:00

Los Angeles AGS

Los Angeles, United States

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