GEO Quarterly No 23

• Published late September •


GEO Q23
• The cover photograph is a high-resolution Landsat image of Australia's Lake Eyre. You can read inside how water recently returned to this normally arid lake.
• Rob Denton presents the first article in his series describing how you can build your own HRPT station.
• A Canadian reader, Terry Mullen, who recently took his mobile APT gear to Banff National Park in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, narrates his experiences.
• GOES-14 is now safely in orbit and undergoing testing. Fred Piering provides an eye-witness account of the launch while Ed Murashie discusses the contribution this new satellite will make to weather forecasting.
• You probably haven't considered building up an MSG system starting with an inexpensive 'barebones' computer. Luc van der Peer has, with remarkably good results, as he describes inside.
• The debate about the relative merits of DCA and QFH antennas continues. Two readers who have been experimenting with them, Rob Denton and Anders Höök, relate their experiences.
• Marciano Righini take a nostalgic look to the past in an illustrated article on the theme of Soviet Radar Satellites.


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