GOES 17 – Success

I’ve been waiting about 3 weeks for the Nooelec GOES SAWbird to arrive, which is a low noise amplifier coupled with a band pass filter which only allows the satellite frequency through. It had gone on a journey around the…

Image Quality Issues

The passes this morning from NOAA are all showing issues with the image quality, with an example below from the NOAA 18 pass. This also impacted the Meteor M2 passes where it proved impossible to decode the audio to produce…

Wet Weather to Ease?

The NOAA 19 composite from this morning shows that the majority of the heavy rain is now heading out into the Pacific Ocean with the last of the wet weather likely to have cleared by the end of today. Over…