🎀Lop-Eared Doll, W2LOP

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

They're maybe a week or so away from budding!

Some more wild rabbits eyeing my sunflowers..

Sunflower update!

See you space cowboy...

Here it is, the death song of a weather satellite. NOAA-18 in sending (and us receiving) mode to the very last moment before being turned off. It is now inert and classified as "space junk", but as we noted earlier today, many a meteorologist trained and worked from its data.🫡

There was a small setback when some hungry rabbits came by to chew on the young sunflowers, but they are recovering nicely now!

Several 1970s-1990s Soviet cassette tapes.

Special cassette day.

These old soviet cassettes are interesting and unique, but have been stored improperly over the last several years and the tape is no longer useable.

I've been opening them up and replacing the tape with RTM C60 with much success! They are useable again!