MeteorDemod Tutorial for Meteor M-2

by Mike17 December 202228 December 2022

How to make amazing Meteor M-2 weather satellite images using the MeteorDemod software. Introduction MeteorDemod is a software application which will take .wav files from the Meteor M-2 weather satellites, along with a .tle file and create amazing images. With…

Meteor M-2 Images Turbocharged

by Mike11 December 202211 December 2022

For quite a while I’ve been posting Meteor M-2 images covering New Zealand and the surrounding areas with relatively few changes other than adding the image header and doing a bit to remove some of the image noise. However seeing…

GOES 18

by Mike4 September 20224 September 2022

GOES 18 was launched on an accelerated process to take over from GOES 17 which was having trouble keeping the ABI sensor cool due to an issue which was identified with the heat pipes which were blocked. GOES 18 is…

Webserver Performance Problems – Solved

by Mike23 July 202223 July 2022

I’ve encountered multiple issues around the kiwiweather.com webserver performance and at the heart of the issue was that I’d tried to implement everything on a single, 10 year old PC running Proxmox and multiple VMs. This was very much taking…

Cosmonautics Day and Women in Space – SSTV

by Mike15 April 202215 April 2022

When there is normally a wait of multiple months between SSTV events, I got quite a surprise with the next SSTV announcement. This time there was a gap of just three days between events. So more time to validate my…