In message , Jon O'Rourke
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"Rob Bale" wrote in message
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Loads of info here Jon.
http://www.eumetsat.de/en/dps/news/p...ices_0_deg.pdf

Thanks.


With regards Meteosat 6 it is envisaged it will continue for some time
beyond 2005 transmitting from 10° East
Hope you're right about MSG 1(Meteosat 8)

Me too, but Meteosat 8 will be old hat by then ;-)

I was only thinking the other about my old Timestep Meteosat receiver and
the joyous moment in 1992 when I received my first 'live' image; although my
dad wasn't having much fun wandering round the front garden carrying a 1m
dish pointed in vain at where Meteosat 'should' be ! Then there was the
times I'd set my humble 386 (25mhz) PC up to receive a day's images only to
find the PC's clock had gone awry and I had s*d all ! The net takes all the
fun out of it :-)
Infact I first saw live images a few years before at college when I decided
to do my final A-level Physics project based around their Meteosat kit. I
spent many happy hours (normally well after closing time) with a dodgy dot
matrix printer, some tracing paper (for overlaying DIY Synoptic charts) and
an aging BBC-B computer.. the tutors weren't impressed though and
consquently marked me down because there wasn't enough physics involved,
probably. I digress, hohum.

Jon.

I saw my first satpics when I was forecasting at Darwin Airport in
Australia in the late 1960s. The World Airlines pilots regularly brought
them into us when they flew U.S. troops down from Vietnam for R&R. The
US Air Force weather service in Vietnam had the capability of receiving
satpics but we didn't in Darwin. We were very grateful for them even
though they were many hours old by the time we got our hands on them. By
today's standards the resolution was pathetic but we thought they were
marvellous.

Happy days :-)

Norman
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Norman Lynagh Weather Consultancy
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England