Tools for people who are outside, on a bad network.

Kompressed

iOS app for tiny radio pipes. Fits a photo or a short clip under the byte budget HF, LoRa, or Iridium actually gives you. Live on the App Store.

Overpass Predictor

The Satellite Pass Directly Overhead Is the One You Cannot Use

Predicts when a radar satellite can actually image a spot, which is not the same as when one flies over it. About a quarter of passes are usable, and the best-looking ones are the worst.

Camera Map

A Camera That Needs a Password Can Never Be Handed to ATAK Directly

Maps 35,944 public cameras and re-publishes any of them as a stream ATAK, VLC or a recorder can open. The format ATAK uses for video has nowhere to put a username, which decides almost everything else about how it works.

Windmaster

Winds Aloft to 103,800 Feet, Anywhere on Earth

Wind from the ground to 103,800 feet, anywhere. The holes in the ladder are interpolated and marked, then handed to ATAK, Google Earth, or anything that opens KML.

Depth

Live Bathymetry for Google Earth, ATAK, and a Chartplotter

Live water depth for any area you pick, exported for Google Earth, ATAK, QGIS or a chartplotter.

High Altitude Balloon Path

The Landing Pin Is an Estimate

Predicts where a high-altitude balloon flies and where it comes down, then hands you the track for ATAK. Estimates only.

Morse

Morse Hidden in a Beat, In Earshot

A basic house loop carries the Morse as a quiet voice under the kick. Anyone standing there hears a tune, not dits. That is the send you can play out loud.

Starship Lander

Nobody Could Land It, and the Difficulty Was Never the Problem

A browser game where a Starship-shaped vehicle falls belly-first at terminal velocity, flips, and lands on a ring or on a droneship deck heaving in a swell. It was unlandable for weeks, and never because it was hard.