Hi All, I was looking through the images on APOD (Astronomy Picture of the day) when I came across this simulation of flights over the USA in one day. Its not...
All, FLYBY ALERT: This is a good month for spaceship spotting. On May 1st, the International Space Station (ISS) begins a 4-week series of bright flybys...
All, Just to advise that you can read about what's coming in the June GEO
Quarterly on the GEO website at http://www.geo-web.org.uk/mag.html Also, remember...
Not to worry, glad it's working OK now. Odd about the reposts, I must admit to being a bit curious as to what caused that, if you ever find out let me know. ...
In message <20080504134758.01fa48e8.andyyahoo@...> ... I think it's unlikely I will ever discover the process by which it happened, but I have recently...
Hi, I just got a 6' dish antenna with removeable panels. I plan on putting in 1/2" hardware cloth panels instead of the tigher spacing KU panels and use the...
Ed, I used the G5400B for HRPT with a 48" mesh aluminum dish back in the John DuBois satellite days and it was close to capacity. My dish was balanced with a...
Folks, I see from the GEO Shop Web page: http://www.geo-web.org.uk/shop.html that the new DVB World USB boxes for EUMETCast reception are now in! As they are...
I have posted some images created with HRPT Reader of the eruption of Chaiten in Chile cheers Dale http://www.daleh.id.au/volcano_images.html [Non-text...
Hello Ed, We use up to 1.2 meter full aluminium dishes on this rotor. The gears are metal/aluminium and can handle quite some beating. But you have to park the...
Dale, Very nice view...thanks for pointing it out. I see this morning's Metop (0049) shows the dams on the Parana(?) river system, somewhat inland from Sao...
The symposium is only days away now, so here is an update. Raffle I have been generously given in advance some very desirable Hammond 1455T2201 clear anodized...
GEO Shop news for the Symposium. Stop Press!!! We are hoping to have sets of John Silver's Radar Lightning PCBs for sale on the GEO Shop table at the Symposium...
Was hoping to be there in time to join friends for dinner tomorrow (Friday) - but it looks as if I shall be arriving late . Anyhow you know where the best...
All, I hope someone will a) have heard this, and b) have an explanation? I was sitting in the garden having afternoon tea (yes scones and good strong Assam...
Hi John, I presume you've ruled out anything that the blackbird might be doing?! As your mail came through I was reading the latest offering from The Society...
xrit2pic version 2008.05 is now available: http://www.alblas.demon.nl/wsat/software/soft_msg.html New in this release: * Supports GEOS HRIT from JME (this was...
Hi there, Two years ago, more or less, I bought a R2FX receiver to Holger. Connecting the antenna to the receiver I think some contact was made and since this,...
You post does not give any clues that would suggest a fault let alone a cure. So the problem could be anywhere or anything. As receivers go the R2XF is quite a...
Just to let you know that we made £170 on the raffle at this year's symposium. I would like to thank all those members who gave prizes so generously and all...
... Folks, I captured a few pictures of the day, and have put them up on the Web here: http://www.virginmediaphotos.co.uk/album/8122297 My thanks to the...
Help Please. I cannot get past the yellow "T" icon. I purchased the DVBWorld box from the shop at the symposium, and installed it on my laptop with no...