Apr 4, 2009
After reconnecting up the weather satellite receiver (RX2) and connecting it up to the Diamond V2000 vertical to decode the NOAA APT satellite passes it was finally time to put a dedicated antenna back up, in the form of a quadrifilar helicoidal antenna (QFH) this...
Mar 12, 2009
I’ve been tweeting weather information from the weather station at the home QTH for a couple of months and now there’s even more stations doing so, following the stations can distract you from actual non automated tweets so I decided Wednesday to code up a...
Mar 2, 2009
After about 3 years of not decoding APT weather satellite pictures, I decided 1 weeks ago to setup the Rig RIGSAT RX2 again and connected it up to the Diamond V2000, for the software I decided instead of using the Time-step software to use a free application called...
Jan 3, 2009
The other night I was chatting to Paul (M0TZO) who suggested I made the weather station which I have at home send tweets automatically I thought this was a great idea and noticed that Cumulus by Sandaysoft now supports twitter. So it was just a simple task of adding a...
Feb 15, 2006
Surpisingly the weather has been really nice today, even better that it was on my day off from university!