Today I Learned: RBN mishaps; Google Earth URLs; Google Earth Studio

 How many apparent callsigns can one little ham radio bear? Google Earth on the web has a URL API of sorts, but apparently NO animation! Grrr.....

Google Earth's URL stores the initial view of the map like so

https://earth.google.com/web/@37.78472548,-122.50134987,111.08460648a,1238.99361831d,35y,-168.52095559h,74.50108975t,0r

It may come in hand for doing something involving GUI screen scraping and unit testing in future projects with the Rockmite ham radio.

There's a new callsign in town for the little KD0FNR Rockmite. It's KD0R. So far, I have no  idea how this alias is coming about.

Google Earth (at least on the web) doesn't support animation at the moment as far as I can tell. (Sigh, I'm stuck in kepler.gl for that feature for the moment.) Google Earth Studio will apparently support animation though? I hope to find out. For reference, kepler.gl is a nice platform, but I'm more used to working with kml files from back in the day when I had apps tracking planes

 and satellites. (I miss you Google Earth plugin!)

24 hours of a satellite path where every vertical yellow line is another two minutes along the satellite path.