Oh wow, #hamradio to the rescue Remember that hurricane data that is being cut off by the US government? Guess who figured out how to get the data anyway? The Register: Radio geeks reveal how to access crucial hurricane data after US Department of Defense cut it off Hams for the win: Amateur-built decoder taps SSMIS satellite data amid NOAA cutoff https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/ssmis_satellite_decoder #hurricanes #weather #wx #satellites

Space satellite company is using #hamradio bands without permission, and now is looking to take away the 430 to 440Mhz band for its exclusive use. AMSAT: "Despite not being amateur satellites the first five commercial satellites use these amateur frequencies for telemetry links with a 50 kHz bandwidth: 430.5, 432.3, 434.1, 435.9 and 439.5 MHz..... AST SpaceMobile are planning to launch a further 243 satellites .... In February they submitted a request to the FCC Space Bureau for use of the amateur band worldwide" https://amsat-uk.org/2025/06/26/use-of-430-440-mhz-by-ast-spacemobile-constellation/

(Sew fabric into a tube and cut two little leg holes, LOL). He does not appreciate it. The first shirt I sewed for him has a big hole in it and apparently the OTHER rabbit helped him wriggle out of it sometime today.

#bunny wearing a t-shirt I sewed for him (recovering from surgery) #sewing

😬 #aviation https://live.acarsdrama.com/@acarsdrama/114891148624686573

The Guardian: Texas flood protest goes to Washington: ‘No more kids lost to climate disasters’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/texas-flood-protest-washington-climate-crisis #climateemergency

BBC: Migrants tortured in El Salvador, Venezuela says https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg358vxx4ro #Fascism #ICE

Igor! Come here! I HAVE REMOVED HIS BRAIN! 🤪 (Ebike controller) #bikehacking #bikerepair

QUICK! LOOK OVER HERE! SQUIRREL! THESE ARE NOT THE SECRET CONSPIRACY PAPERS YOU ARE LOOKING FOR! NEVER MIND THE ORANGE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN/IN THE FILES WE ARE TRYING TO SHRED

👀 "Researchers said anyone running an on-premises instance of SharePoint should assume their networks are breached." #SharePoint #Microsoft #Cybersecurity https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/sharepoint-vulnerability-with-9-8-severity-rating-is-under-exploit-across-the-globe/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

PC Magazine: Ham Radio Users Clash With Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Over Spectrum Use https://www.pcmag.com/news/ham-radio-users-clash-with-starlink-rival-ast-spacemobile-over-spectrum #hamradio

Curious if there is any public details on the processing steps off the satellite here. This is the NetCDF output of NASA that uses those SMISS sensors, however, I believe they are processed through some layer of software first to be made usable. (the question is if NASA's software can be obtained -- typically NASA outputs are publicly available, and maybe even source code). https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/uso/ds_docs/ssmi_netcdf/ssmi_ssmis_dataset.html #SSMISS