Great link, Dale. Many thanks for a good read.! I remember the great day.. we (500+ school kids) were all shuflled into the school hall, and made to sit on the...
Dale Hardy wrote: [] ... Many thanks, Dale. It brought back many memories..... Cheers, David -- SatSignal software - quality software written to your...
If anyone's read Tom Wolfe's 'The Right Stuff' they will know that the military were so keen to have service personnel _flying_ spacecraft (i.e. 'hands on')...
1st June 2008 11.23GMT.We just had here near Plovdiv what I can only describe as an Ice storm! Much larger pieces than Hail which lasted approx 7 minutes,...
All, I'm pleased to say that there has been a flurry of surveys arriving over the last week - prompted I suspect by the reminder in GEO Quarterly # 18. ...
Robert, I am no particular exponent of demarcation, but, bearing in mind the respective and highly specialised training undertaken, and specific experience...
Hi Rob, thanks for the report - I've been busy doing other things and hadn't seen the images of all the rain coming down the Med - it looks as if you might get...
Hi Rob Conratulations, all all the best for the future to you both. Hopefully see you again at Leicester and perhaps meet the bride to be? best wishes Dave ...
Here a few moments later received APT at Vasa, Finland, 11:12 UT Unprojected FC (458 kb) http://www.poes-weather.com/~patrik/tmp/nigel-2.jpg Projected FC (458...
Congrats Rob, though does this mean we can all add personal announcements? :-) I'm off topic but I hear today I'm a Grandad with potential for two bars....
Hi Robert, I have to agree with Terence on this one. An objective view of manned space travel is that without the military backing it may not have come about...
Congratulations Alan, That's surely worth a mention, I don't think it hurts to add a personal touch from time to time, thanks to all for the good wishes, was...
Hi all, If you are interested to hear (test APT data) from RS-30 at 435.315 MHz here are the latest I have found. The RS-30 keps are (most likely) 2008-025A at...
OK, so we are slightly off-topic - but I must add a little to this thread. During my early career years, I was able to 'patch in' directly to the lunar flights...
It's a long time since I read Wolfe's book, but as I remember it, the argument went something like this: highly trained test pilots did not want to be flown in...
I managed to decode a 'picture' but it appears to be data not WEFAX. http://www.gtrain.freeserve.co.uk/yub.htm Cheers Gordon Train [Non-text portions of this...
Hi Gordon, Yes, this is METEOR test APT data and can not be decoded with eg APTDecoder The data transmitted is cyclic and is "empty" (cyclic = same data again...
My Thanks to All my GEO friends for the good wishes, I'll pass them on to Rosalina,so maybe now I may move back to UK or out to PH! Today there has been many...
Aah Robert; that's more specific, but in my mind still not a convincing argument on Wolfe's behalf. It could even be seen as self-contradictory. Whether, or...
I was hunting around for help in interpreting some of the DWDSAT data when I came across the MANUAL OF SYNOPTIC SATELLITE METEOROLOGY, haven't had a chance to...
Hi Rob, Recalling your opinions of England when you left the country a couple of
years ago, I would heartily recommend settling in Scotland should you return...