Until-now secret radio project. Modified an 80s GI Joe toy with an old Motorola crystal to work the 6 meter ham band. Power output is measured in milliwatts but it technically works!

My Martin Newell/Cleaners From Venus cassette collection. Also including the new re-releases of Songs For A Fallow Land and In The Golden Autumn!

No.. I'm not obsessed..

ended up as more of a bent piece than planned but im still real happy with it. dolls.

Thanks to my friend Matt for introducing me to this album!
Awesome mix of synths and classic scifi narration.

The Earth, set across the black and empty void of space. It is distant, yet close enough to take up two-thirds of the frame. An annotative callout pointing its way informs the reader of the following factoid: "most rabbits can be found here!"

A reminder, an additional footnote on the previous image now viewed from the moon's surface. The Earth is more distant now, half in shadow. It gently asks that you please keep this place safe for them.

A doll.

Not a person.

Inhuman.

But not sub-human.

Don't you dare forget it.

deer who wears tuning forks on its head as "antlers" for gender reasons and has the unfortunate side effect of hearing ....Things

W2LOP/AE !

Yep! Middle of Long Island!
It's pretty noisy for sure, but I don't have much of an option so I do a lot of digital/weak signal stuff on HF.
There's also lots of VHF/UHF repeaters for various clubs around the island!

An Inaba Tewi fumo holding a Bendix/King radio, looking devious.

What will she do???

宝物

Fun facts:

It's as old as I am! (Vintage..)
It can be reprogrammed with a pocket knife.
In an emergency, it can be used as a blunt instrument.
The battery lasts nearly 20 hours on 9 eneloops.

Whoa.. Bendix/King..
(EPU4992M downbanded to work 70cm).

Even managed to find an original stainless steel keypad protector! Wowie!

This was a fun project and a beautiful radio..

The last gasp of satellite NOAA-15, sheduled to be decommissioned in about 2 hours.

These old APT birds were some of the first activities that got me into radio, I'll miss them.

Some polaroid photos from this morning..
Taken with a Polaroid 660 Autofocus.

High-Altitude Balloon SSTV:
Just finished decoding a load of images transmitted from a high-altitude balloon launched by Kopernik Observatory!

I tracked it up to about 99,000ft before transmissions stopped, the images are so cool.

Pictures of my receiving station here too.

+43??? Powerful..

hunger..

Baobab is gonna get baobig.

"Midnight Cleaners" on cassette by The Cleaners From Venus.

The new Midnight Cleaners re-release came to my door today!

I wasn't expecting this for another few weeks so it was a nice surprise.

This is the train to
Ronkonkoma.

The next station is
Ronkonkoma.

Mochii's Seeds of Happiness have Bloomed! 🌻

Too tall! Too tall!

An eastern cottontail rabbit munching on some grass.

Bunny spotted!

wow... 🐇 rabbit...

Sunflower Update: "They keep growing why do they keep growing!"

Stationmaster Mochii looks quite pleased with their growth so far!

An SSTV image sent by the RS-58S satellite in celebration of 2 years in orbit.

Reception of an #SSTV image sent by satellite MONITOR-3 (RS58S) during it's morning pass over NY.

Picked up in my front yard with a Yaesu FT5DR and long whip.

Received a special sign for Mochii's Garden!

Been listening to the new album constantly since I got it.. x.x