Andreas Warburton
@awarb.bsky.social
Citizen. Biker. Radio op. High-energy subatomic particle physics professor. Work/Play/Love hard. he|him VA2WBT 🇨🇦🇨🇭🇬🇧 🇮🇳
Work home page: https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/awarburton/
See also: https://mastodon.world/@AWarb
Work home page: https://www.physics.mcgill.ca/awarburton/
See also: https://mastodon.world/@AWarb
Last weekend: screenshots on my phone of an aircraft (bright yellow) being tracked by my home-built Montréal rooftop station at a distance of 375km. Routine, except perhaps that I was in seat 13A of that particular plane, holding the phone. #peaknerd www.airnavradar.com/stations/EXT...
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Last weekend: screenshots on my phone of an aircraft (bright yellow) being tracked by my home-built Montréal rooftop station at a distance of 375km. Routine, except perhaps that I was in seat 13A of that particular plane, holding the phone. #peaknerd www.airnavradar.com/stations/EXT...
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) inducted into TIME's Best Inventions Hall of Fame -- one of 25 most iconic in past 25 years
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October 19, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) inducted into TIME's Best Inventions Hall of Fame -- one of 25 most iconic in past 25 years
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New position for the all-sky camera I built during covid. Project antennas, departing aircraft, moon rising, altocumulus arriving, sunrise beginning. Meanwhile, Einstein@Home calculations to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (sometimes called pulsars).
August 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
New position for the all-sky camera I built during covid. Project antennas, departing aircraft, moon rising, altocumulus arriving, sunrise beginning. Meanwhile, Einstein@Home calculations to search for weak astrophysical signals from spinning neutron stars (sometimes called pulsars).
Smoke in the city: Hundreds of buildings. Three churches. One Moon.
August 9, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Smoke in the city: Hundreds of buildings. Three churches. One Moon.
Summer thesis reading day capped off with the VE3STP net run by champlainrepeater.ca at sundown.
August 7, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Summer thesis reading day capped off with the VE3STP net run by champlainrepeater.ca at sundown.
34 degrees Celsius at times on today's all-electric ride. Put 200km on the new mesh armour gear: hoodie and pants. They're a game changer for adapting to #climate-change
July 13, 2025 at 12:19 AM
34 degrees Celsius at times on today's all-electric ride. Put 200km on the new mesh armour gear: hoodie and pants. They're a game changer for adapting to #climate-change
A Hubble Network satellite, launched 6 days ago and capable of receiving signals from a 3.5mm Bluetooth chip on Earth from a distance of 600km, is detected by my rooftop ground station in Montréal, Canada. hubblenetwork.com/blog/2024/04...
June 29, 2025 at 11:37 AM
A Hubble Network satellite, launched 6 days ago and capable of receiving signals from a 3.5mm Bluetooth chip on Earth from a distance of 600km, is detected by my rooftop ground station in Montréal, Canada. hubblenetwork.com/blog/2024/04...
Jurassic Special Set: Thick Beef & Garlic Onion Beef burger, Umami Spicy Zaku Zaku Juicy Chicken burger, medium fry, Mac Fizz Pineapple Melon beverage. Cost: about CA$13 (plus some very minor stomach pains).
June 19, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Jurassic Special Set: Thick Beef & Garlic Onion Beef burger, Umami Spicy Zaku Zaku Juicy Chicken burger, medium fry, Mac Fizz Pineapple Melon beverage. Cost: about CA$13 (plus some very minor stomach pains).
Digital FT8 communication with German station DL8YHR on the 10m band, software controlled with the SDR-Control app running on the same cell phone taking the video, from my Arctic research station (just kidding -- it's the Montreal condo in a Canadian blizzard). #radio #snow
February 16, 2025 at 7:12 PM
A story about Amy.
February 15, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A story about Amy.
Slow scan TV (SSTV) images from the International Space Station (ISS), transmitted at 5W, captured by my UHF satellite ground station overnight. network.satnogs.org/stations/1156/ #SatNOGS #ISS #Fram2ham #sstv #ariss_sstv
February 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Slow scan TV (SSTV) images from the International Space Station (ISS), transmitted at 5W, captured by my UHF satellite ground station overnight. network.satnogs.org/stations/1156/ #SatNOGS #ISS #Fram2ham #sstv #ariss_sstv
My rooftop equipment in Montreal spots Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's flight to Paris today.
February 8, 2025 at 2:53 PM
My rooftop equipment in Montreal spots Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's flight to Paris today.
QSL card from RI1ANE, confirming the 2-way contact.
December 27, 2024 at 9:24 PM
QSL card from RI1ANE, confirming the 2-way contact.
One last missing part
December 20, 2024 at 1:48 AM
One last missing part
Observer Fredy Damkalis scheduled a pass on my Montreal-based UHF station VA2WBT a few days ago: positive ident for mode CW at 437.375 MHz. Waterfall here: network.satnogs.org/observations...
December 12, 2024 at 12:46 PM
Observer Fredy Damkalis scheduled a pass on my Montreal-based UHF station VA2WBT a few days ago: positive ident for mode CW at 437.375 MHz. Waterfall here: network.satnogs.org/observations...
Sound foundations
December 5, 2024 at 9:00 PM
Sound foundations
My 1st radio contact with Antarctica, ~17000km from Montreal: Igor Taranenko (RI1ANE) kindly responded to my tiny mobile vertical antenna radiating 25W of HF RF from a mobile mag mount on my condo's deck railing. He is at Progress Base, a Russian research station. The ionosphere is amazing.
December 1, 2024 at 2:14 AM
My 1st radio contact with Antarctica, ~17000km from Montreal: Igor Taranenko (RI1ANE) kindly responded to my tiny mobile vertical antenna radiating 25W of HF RF from a mobile mag mount on my condo's deck railing. He is at Progress Base, a Russian research station. The ionosphere is amazing.
Montreal twilight
November 21, 2024 at 1:41 AM
Montreal twilight
I did all the aeronautical and photographical calculations, yet the pilots of this Air Transat Airbus A330 flight TSC399, travelling to Montreal from Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), were flying an altitude about 500ft below what I'd hoped. Better luck next year!
November 17, 2024 at 1:18 AM
I did all the aeronautical and photographical calculations, yet the pilots of this Air Transat Airbus A330 flight TSC399, travelling to Montreal from Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), were flying an altitude about 500ft below what I'd hoped. Better luck next year!