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Weather knowledge quiz online from the Christian Science Monitor. Note that a safety harness was needed because of the height. This article (and pictures) shows Rick changing out equipment located in Nova Scotia. Retired NWS meteorologist Rick Decker, CW6014, has installed and continues to help maintain about ten CWOP stations on the coast in Maine and Eastern Canada. Recent NOAA/MADIS outage was apparently due to Chinese Hackers. Enter Matt's IDĪs has been the case in previous years, there was a 'Christmas effect' this past year clearly shown by this graph of new CWOP sign-ups per day for the last quarter of 2014.

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Matt Cooper, DW8108, was recently in a Chicago-area TV promo. This recent NOAA news item tells of the MADIS move from research to operations and mentions CWOP. Wind article that mentions CWOP as 'still going strong today'. It has all turned out better than we thought it would. CWOP is the largest network in the MADIS surface data set, both in terms of members and observations. So far, well over 30,000 have joined and over 12,000 stations are currently sending data, about 100,000 packets per hour. We (Steve Dimse and I) expected maybe a hundred people or so would join and send data to Steve's server for transfer to NOAA. We do not stream to Facebook Live 24/7 as we do with YouTube, but generally will take to FB Live when something noteworthy is happening or expected to happen on the nest.Fifteen years ago today, Sept 10, 2000, the CWOP member database was started, entries from a few interested hams were entered, and data started flowing. Facebook Liveįacebook Live streams are provided on the OKC Owl Cam Facebook Page through one of many of mimoLive's numerous built-in streaming protocols. (Note: for connection reliability, the stream is often sent at 720p).

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The stream is output in 1080p directly to YouTube by a Taradek VidiU, a video encoding device that has a hardwired uplink to a high-bandwidth internet connection. This is particularly useful during hatch time, as the owls make noise inside the eggs as they prepare to hatch. A directional shotgun mic is mounted over the nest and is aimed directly at it to capture even the slightest sounds at the nest pot. Different cameras can be quickly swapped out this way to provide optimal views as needed, and the active cameras can be switched to and from, along with combined picture-in-picture and zoomed shots thanks to mimoLive.Īudio is captured using two different kinds of microphones: an Audio Technica stereo microphone, used to capture ambient sound, such as the owls hooting on rooftops.

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Since only 2 USB cameras can be connected at once to the hardware, all cameras are connected to separate 30-meter amplified USB cables that run to our 'tech closet' where the Mac Mini is, out of site from the nest. You may also see several nest Outdoor Cams within certain views, which can be used to provide supplemental views to the live stream, though they are generally used to record the activity for use in other ways. We have several cameras strategically placed, the primary two being robotic BCC950 Conference Cams. Jeff uses a similar utility to control the robotic cams remotely via software. This is especially useful in providing a better view of the owls at night in low-light situations. To enhance the quality of picture, Jeff uses Webcam Settings, which is an app that hacks the video feed from webcams and allows precise controls of the various settings of the video.

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This software allows Jeff to switch cameras, add graphics and helpful information to the stream, and more. The stream is run from an Apple Mac Mini running Boinx Software's mimolive video production software.