Finally, the monsoon arrived somewhere around 4th of June this year in Mumbai. Everyone in the city was excited and eagerly waiting for the monsoon. I, along with few other friends were not that eager, as we were aware about the status of the monsoon.
One of my friend named Mahesh Vhatkar is a ham radio operator. His call sign is VU2IIA. Mahesh is a very down to earth and helping person. You will never get a negative reply from. He is very much interested in electronics and is busy with some or the other activity. When Mahesh informs me about his new recently purchased gadget, I have to ask him when he will be opening the gadget or has he opened the gadget to research. He has been of great help in installing and maintaining VHF amateur radio repeater at Matheran.
Being a ham radio operator and keen interest in electronics, Mahesh decodes the weather satellites from time to time. He decodes at least 3-4 satellites daily and sometimes more. In simple words, he decodes the images transmitted by the satellite, when they pass above the country, India. There are restrictions to reach MET Dept. to get the update on the weather and most of the times these are not clear or the weather is unpredictable. But Mahesh makes it possible by decoding the images regularly. Mahesh is currently using a Turnstile Cross Dipole home brew antenna (home made) to get those images.
Along with the radio and the antenna, Mahesh has to use the an international satellite image decoder software named WXtoImg, which is the world's best weather satellite (WXsat) signal to image decoder. Wxsat is competetor programm from UK to WXtoImg. Mahesh is doing a great job without any monetary gains and no doubt it is very interesting for other people to get the monsoon update.
Currently, the monsoon winds have flown far away from the west and you can notice them on the East coast.
For more images on daily basis, check Mahesh's blog.
(Click on the images to enlarge them)
I am sure you will enjoy watching those images.
Thanks and Regards.
One of my friend named Mahesh Vhatkar is a ham radio operator. His call sign is VU2IIA. Mahesh is a very down to earth and helping person. You will never get a negative reply from. He is very much interested in electronics and is busy with some or the other activity. When Mahesh informs me about his new recently purchased gadget, I have to ask him when he will be opening the gadget or has he opened the gadget to research. He has been of great help in installing and maintaining VHF amateur radio repeater at Matheran.
Being a ham radio operator and keen interest in electronics, Mahesh decodes the weather satellites from time to time. He decodes at least 3-4 satellites daily and sometimes more. In simple words, he decodes the images transmitted by the satellite, when they pass above the country, India. There are restrictions to reach MET Dept. to get the update on the weather and most of the times these are not clear or the weather is unpredictable. But Mahesh makes it possible by decoding the images regularly. Mahesh is currently using a Turnstile Cross Dipole home brew antenna (home made) to get those images.
Along with the radio and the antenna, Mahesh has to use the an international satellite image decoder software named WXtoImg, which is the world's best weather satellite (WXsat) signal to image decoder. Wxsat is competetor programm from UK to WXtoImg. Mahesh is doing a great job without any monetary gains and no doubt it is very interesting for other people to get the monsoon update.
Currently, the monsoon winds have flown far away from the west and you can notice them on the East coast.
For more images on daily basis, check Mahesh's blog.
(Click on the images to enlarge them)
I am sure you will enjoy watching those images.
Thanks and Regards.
3 comments:
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