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Welcome to WeatherGeek, a collection of websites from WessexWeather, dedicated to weather, climate, amateur radio, astrophotography and genealogy. The familiar Wessexweather website remains free to access for now, whilst other websites listed below may require registration or are not currently available for public use. My intention is to make this information available to professionals and enthusiasts only. Registration will be free of charge via email, and free of advertising.
Here's to interesting weather by day and clear skies by night!
Simon • WessexWeather • M7WWX • 73
Independent weather station near Wimborne in Dorset, providing weather information to residents and businesses in Southern England since July 2009.
Live weather data from a Davis Vantage Vue weather station, processed by Meteobridge and presented using Meteotemplate.
Co-located Weatherflow Tempest° weather station with ultrasonic anemometer and haptic rain guage.
Live weather data processed by Meteobridge and presented using Meteotemplate and PWS Dashboard.
Web-based SDR receiver in Dorset, UK.
Airspy HF+ Discovery and YouLoop antenna provides HF reception with an RTL-SDR V3 and Diamond discone antenna providing VHF and UHF reception.
OpenWebRX+ runs 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi 5 and when unattended decodes WEFAX images and feeds decoded digital data to PSKReporter.
Weather satellite images decoded from Meteor-M N weather satellites passing over the UK. Images decoded using NooElec SMArTee SDR and Diamond QFH antenna, with software running 24/7 on a Raspberry Pi 4B.
Weather FAX images are received from Hamburg and Northwood using OpenWebRX+.
Atmospheric weather data decoded from weather balloons passing over central and southern England.
Data received using a quarter wave ground plane antenna and NooElec SMArTee SDR, and processed with Radiosonde_Auto_Rx on a Raspberry Pi 4B running 24/7.
In the early 2000s my father worked tirelessly to record our family tree using the now obsolete GSP Family Tree Maker.
I have managed to convert these trees into modern GEDCOM files and update and maintain them using FamilySearch, Ancestry and MacFamilyTree.
Deep sky astrophotography (nebulae, galaxies and star clusters) captured with a Vaonis Vespera II smart telescope.
I am fortunate in Sturminster Marshall to have fairly dark (Bortle 4) skies, but not necessarily clear ones! The Vespera builds images from 10-second exposures then post processed on my Mac using GraXpert and Siril.
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