I was trying to figure out how people really colorize satellite pictures, but wasn’t making any headway, so I just went ahead and did some relatively straightforward gimp work. I’ll write this up too, eventually. Basically it is just a set of thresholds to establish some masks (one for the ocean, one for brown land, one for green, and one for the clouds. Less green would probably be better than more, because it begins to leak into the clouds. Oh well.
Daily Archives: 1/4/2008
AO-51 from inside…
Well, the weather today sucks. We have 40mph gusts, and are expecting a full 2 inches of rain. That being said, I decided to try to work AO-51 as it came overhead by standing in my living room with my handheld yagi. It wasn’t stellar, but I did manage to get W8SME (you can hear him tease me that it isn’t “shorts weather” since I usually have been operating in shorts and a T-shirt from my front yard). The interference from the roof made it pretty difficult to receive and even harder to receive, but you can hear a bit of the traffic.