GEO's Weather Satellite Symposium

Held at the National Space Centre, Leicester

Saturday, May 1, 2004


Report by Francis Bell, Symposium co-ordinator.


Photo: David Taylor

"Outstanding!" - "Wow!" - "Awesome!" - "Hope we can come again next year"

As you can see from the comments above GEO's first symposium meeting was judged by those who attended to be an outstanding success. The feedback to GEO's management team from the delegates - 58 from 5 countries - was very positive. The four main elements of the day were: -

The chance to talk to other GEO members.

To be there for the outstanding lectures and presentations.

To see equipment and have hands-on live demonstrations of Meteosat-8 reception.

In any remaining spare time to visit the National Space Centre's exhibition areas.

The speakers were:-
Geoff Griffiths The amateur radio station at NSC and GEO's special event call sign for the day - GB0GEO
Chas Bishop, NSC's Chief Executive The National Space Centre's background and future plans
Photo:David Taylor
Gordon Bridge, EUMETSAT Meteosat 8 and EUMETSAT future policy.
Photo:David Taylor
David Taylor, Sat-Signal Software Computer hardware and software requirements for Meteosat 8.
Robert Moore, Liverpool University Relating dynamic MSG images to weather patterns observed at his location.
Photo: David Taylor
Arne van Belle
Ruud Jansen
Rob Hollander, Werkgroep Kunstmanen, NL		 Demonstrating live images, recent Meteosat archives, techniques, antenna and technical information.




Delegates paying rapt attention to Gordon Bridge Rob Hollander explaining the finer points of QFH antenna design



Hands-on experience of MSG reception How to make a QFH antenna



Group discussions
Photo: Tom Findlay


Thanks must be expressed to all who attended: the management team; the speakers and all the members. Thanks also to the NSC as welcoming hosts for our meeting.

Again next year? Well who knows? Just keep in touch with GEO.

A date for your diary. If you missed Leicester this year, and would like to keep up to date with GEO at meetings, we are attending the AMSAT-UK event at the University of Surrey on 31 st July 2004. Again distinguished speakers and live demonstrations of weather satellite reception will feature. We plan to make a major contribution to the programme. Come to Guildford if you can, click here - symposium@geo-web.org.uk - to contact me, Francis Bell, for more information.

There will be a full report in the next GEO Quarterly.

The Symposium will be covered comprehensively by Lawrence Harris in the July issue of Short Wave Magazine.



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