Nice. I actually have two TC-630 units. Someone gave me one because they didn't know what to do with it. I also have a TC-377 but it is a deck only, without the amp.

Amateur radio balloon DG2GG loitering around one of the world's conflict zones, here to the E of Oman after passing over the Persian Gulf, and possibly the Strait of Hormuz during the night. Its WSPR signal has a terrific reach from an altitude of 12,000 m.

Another beauty from METEOR M2-3 at 11:30 AM PT this morning as the satellite passed W of the Metro Vancouver. Turquoise coloration represents snow/ice. Receeived and processed via @wimo_de Turnstile antenna, and radio gear by @Nooelec. Signal dropout lines, only a few on this pass, handled by @Grok.

These four screens are always visible in my radio room. Time Mapper UHD, HamClock OHB, SDRuno/JTDX/RX-SSTV with WSPR and SSTV monitoring, SkyRook satellite tracking with Direwolf and RX-SSTV.

And reel-to-reel for me, particularly with three heads on the deck. Still have my Sony TC-630. :)

Surprisingly, about a quarter of Americans still listen to music on physical CDs.

Vinyl records, then, and now. The ccomeback, such as it is, is but a blip compared to vinyl's heyday.

Infostealers... fake sites... it never gets old.

Beautiful atmospheric gravity wave clouds over Metro Vancouver this afternoon.

Another beauty from METEOR M2-3 from a pass far E of Metro Vancouver at 10:15 AM this morning. Another warm day here on the W coast in SW BC. Turquoise coloration represents ice/snow.

TA-1 turnstile antenna from Wimo, radio gear by Nooelec.

A lot packed in to this SWBC weather forecast.

Looking good...

Beautiful photograph!

Setback for AST Spacemobile as New Glenn rocket suffers anomaly and Bluebird 7 satellite deployed at an orbit too low to maintain.

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Amateur radio operator DG2GG has two balloons aloft, transmitting on 20 m WSPR. One is near to Metro Vancouver today. The other is over northern Africa. I'm picking up WSPR packets from the one over North America. Here is some mapping in WSPR.rocks showing the impressive reach of these balloons.

Ramping up the C-17 Globemaster traffic on the trans-Europe supply route to and from the Middle East. Here we see 12 USAF Globemasters in a snapshot at 1915z Sunday evening.

Ukrainian missiles hit Russian drone factory.

This beautiful heron allowed me to get within a meter or two as it kept an eye on the waters of the pond in Settlers Park, in @CityofPoCo this afternoon.

Quick glance at HF propgation and space weather metrics.

(1) & (2): HamClock with FT8 and WSPR for CN89 (Vancouver) over past 20 minutes, along with space wx.
(3) FT8 as monitored by my station, 10-160 m, over past 24 h.
(4) Reach of my 200 mW WSPR xmtr over 24 h on 17, 20, 30 m.

More stunning METEOR imagery this afternoon from M2-4, one at 2:30 PM, one at 4 PM. Image cleanup nicely handled by @Grok. The air is still chilly here in Metro Vancouver; the turquoise colour indicated snow/ice, whether in clouds or on the ground.

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HF is indeed really bad. I always monitor 20 m SSTV, 14.230 MHz. Only a handful of images have made it through today; normally there would be dozens.

Beauty! METEOR N2-3 at 11 AM PT as the satellite passed directly overhead for Metro Vancouver. Beautiful day here in the city.

TA-1 turnsile antenna from @wimo_de and radio gear from @Nooelec (LNA, SDR) and processing with Raspi NOAA V2.

A little burst of SSTV action from cubesat UmKA-1 as the satellite passed over Metro Vancouver this evening at 10:10 PM PT. 437.625 MHz.

My column on the Artemis II mission.

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Stunning shot from METEOR M2-4 this afternoon as the satellite passed E of Vancouver centered around 3 PM PT. Terrific vertical range. Signal dropout lines nicely handled by @grok. Antenna by @wimo_de, radio gear by @Nooelec.

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A beauty from METEOR M2-3, snapped around 11:30 AM PT as the satellite passed W of Metro Vancouver. Gorgeous view of Vancouver Island and the line of stratovolcanoes to the south. Turquoise colour is snow/ice.

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Managed partial shot from cubesat Nanozond-1, as it transmits its final SSTV images ahead of a likely atmospheric burn up this weekend. We can also see the TLE data is changing quickly. SatNogs positional data was about 6 hours newer than that in SkyRoof and this made for several minutes difference.

The gain is set in the settings.yml file:

vi ${HOME}/raspberry-noaa-v2/config/settings.yml

A text editor opens and you have a row of gain settings. Pick one and go from there.

After saving you have to re-run:

cd ${HOME}/raspberry-noaa-v2
./install_and_upgrade.sh

Lots of action this morning on the amateur radio satellites front, and also on 14.230 MHz amateur radio SSTV. Also showing here 20 m WSPR activity. As monitored in Vancouver.

A beauty from METEOR M2-4 at 3:40 PM PT this afternoon from a pass a little W of Metro Vancouver. Still some ice/snow in those clouds but a lovely day otherwide across the region.