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Peter Vogel

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Teacher ICT/Physics (ret.). Tech journalist. Meteorology/Ham Radio/Astronomy/Cybersecurity/ADS-B/AI/ Prime Minister's/Premier's SciTech awards. CERN/HST. VE7AFV #OSINT

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10 Agentic AI Concepts Explained in Under 10 Minutes An AI agent combines: a large language model for reasoning, access to tools or APIs for action, memory to retain context and a control loop to decide what happens next

10 Agentic AI Concepts Explained in Under 10 Minutes

www.kdnuggets.com/10-agentic-a...

03.03.2026 15:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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hamclock.com — Keeping HamClock Alive Free community backend server for HamClock. All 40+ data feeds live and independent. Your HamClock keeps working past the June 2026 shutdown — just point it here.

A one line fix / edit to the hosts file and you are good to go. Check out HamClock.com.

03.03.2026 02:37 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today's run of SSTV images received in Vancouver on 20 m / 14.230 MHz. First image appeared at 6:27 AM local, and last one 17:39 local.

Using MLA-30+ loop antenna, @SDRplay RSPduo tuner (it is also doing double duty on 20 m WSPR), SDRuno for tuning, RX-SSTV for decoding.

03.03.2026 02:23 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Base station for aircraft/ship tracking, weather satellite signals decoding, amateur radio, especially WSPR, FT8, SSTV, APRS, satellite telemetry. Big screens feature HamClock for signals propagation and space weather conditions.

02.03.2026 01:26 — 👍 16    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Best yet! METEOR M2-4 at 2 PM from a high-angle pass for Metro Vancouver. You see the "after" and "before" shots, after that is Google's Nano Banana 2 took a shot at cleaning up the dropout lines.

TA-1 turnstile antenna from @wimo_de, @Nooelec LNA and SDR. Processing with Raspi NOAA V2-4.

01.03.2026 23:39 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Amateur radio balloon VE7SS meandering around SW BC.

I'm picking up its 20 m WSPR signal here in Metro Vancouver.

@ve7sar.bsky.social

01.03.2026 23:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Home aircraft tracking centre in Vancouver. Feeding ADS-B data to multiple agencies from here. Also feeding AIS data, and running my own weather satellite image capturing ground station.

01.03.2026 19:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Shipping through Hormuz grinding to a halt ...

01.03.2026 15:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Striking in essence their own tanker...

01.03.2026 15:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Four more USAF KC-135R refuelers crossing Europe on their way to the Middle East, the lead aircraft presently over Romania. Snapshots at 0320z Sunday morning.

@jsargentr.bsky.social @osintgeek.de @osinttechnical.bsky.social

01.03.2026 03:24 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Today's run of SSTV images on 14.230 MHz, as captured in Vancouver using an MLA-30+ loop antenna, @SDRplay RSPduo tuner, SDRuno tuning software, and RX-SSTV to decode images. Station is also monitoring 20 m WSPR.

01.03.2026 02:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@bartgonnissen.bsky.social
Thank you for the additional information on insurance. I'm only feeding AIS data to various agencies from my station here in Vancouver. I appreciate your expertise.

01.03.2026 01:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Wonder if Hormuz is already reopening. Here we have the oil tanker Capetan Andreas, in a turnback loop earlier Saturday after leaving from Kuwait, now steaming towards the narrowest part of Hormuz.

@osinttechnical.bsky.social @osintgeek.de @osint-research.bsky.social

01.03.2026 01:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Another cavalcade of USAF tankers heading into the Middle East. Four seen here at 0015z / 2:15 AM Israel time. Tracking in @FlightRadar24 and feeding ADS-B data to this company from Vancouver.

01.03.2026 00:19 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Disruptions to world air travel as Middle Eastern countries close their air space. The only trackable aircraft showing for Israel, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan is this Israeli military Beech 200 Super King Air in this snapshot at 2045z.

28.02.2026 20:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Straits of Hormuz closed. Oil and LPG tanker traffic halting, rerouting. Snapshots in MarineTraffic.com (Enterprise) at 1700z.

28.02.2026 17:01 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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ACA56, Air Canada Toronto to Dubai forced to head back after Middle Eastern airspace closures as joint US-Israeli airstrikes on Iran take place. Snapshot here at 0845z / 3:45 AM Saturday EST.

28.02.2026 08:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Israeli airspace closed. Iranian airspace closed.

Snapshots in @flightradar24.com at 0815z.

28.02.2026 08:24 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Iranian airspace now free of civil aviation traffic. Joint US-Israeli air attack on Iran caught a number of flights in Iranian airspace and airline operators scranbled to reroute these. Snapshot at 0800z.

28.02.2026 08:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Israel declares state of emergency. Closes airspace. Public ordered to carry out essential duties only. 8:15 AM local air raid sirens sounded across Israel to warn of state of emergency. No going to work, to school. Wide-ranging US-Israeli strikes across Iran.

28.02.2026 07:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Joint Israeli-US attacks on Iran lead to civilian aircraft changing courses. US official: "strikes are in progress". Israel expecting retaliatory strikes.
#IranRevoIution2026

28.02.2026 07:17 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Another fine shot from METEOR MN2-4, from a pass W of Metro Vancouver today. Again, I've run the raw shot through Nano Banana 2 (released Feb 26) to see how it handles signal dropout bars. Let's agree there is "fudging" involved.

@spann.bsky.social

28.02.2026 05:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Quite happy with this capture from METEOR MN2-4 as It passed well E of Vancouver today. The left-hand image comes out of Nano Banana 2 after a prompt to remove the signal loss bands in the original. TA-1 Turnstile antenna. Lake Superior centre-right. Bottom-left? @ensembleator.bsky.social

28.02.2026 01:25 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Showdown: Anthropic vs. DoW.

27.02.2026 22:44 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0
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Jack Dorsey lays off 4,000, says others will do same 'within the next year' Dorsey delivered Block's layoff news with an ominous warning.

Block layoffs hit more than 4000 out of 10000 employees, driven by AI developments.

www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

27.02.2026 06:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rydberg atoms detect clear signals from a handheld radio For the first time, a team of US researchers has used sensors containing highly excited Rydberg atoms to detect signals from an ordinary handheld radio. Through a careful approach to demodulating the ...

Rydberg atoms and radio signals.

phys.org/news/2026-02...

27.02.2026 06:04 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Lovely look down on WA, OR, a bit of the Great Salt Lake, and a little of SW BC. As seen today from Russian weather satellite METEOR MN2-5. Received and processed from 137 MHz radio signal here in Vancouver.

27.02.2026 03:03 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hacking group begins leaking customer data in Dutch telecom Odido hack The criminal group behind a hack at Dutch telecom Odido, one of the largest carried out in the Netherlands, has begun publishing customer information on the dark web, the company said on Thursday.

Meanwhile, in the Netherlands, hackers being publishing some of the Odido telecom hack. They threaten to publish a million records a day if a ransom isn't paid.

www.reuters.com/business/med...

27.02.2026 00:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today's 20 m 14.230 MHz SSTV didn't really get going until around 2 PM PST for me here in Vancouver. Morning content was very noisy. MLA-30+ loop antenna, SDRplay RSPduo tuner.

@ve7sar.bsky.social @hamradioworld.bsky.social @hamradiotoday.org

26.02.2026 23:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beautiful shot from Hawaii (bottom left) to Cuba (bottom right), cropped from today's "blue marble" full disk shot from GOES-18 at 2100 UTC / 1 PM PST. As received via 1.7 GHZ radio signal and processed with my own ground station in Vancouver. Mexico, and several US states are basically cloudless.

26.02.2026 23:13 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1