- https://www.geochron.com/
- Owner: Patrick Bolan
- rides motorcycle around and visits geochron users
- mechanical clock since 1964
- automated map to show greyline
- backlit
- 6ft map that turns on gears
- shades moved by motors
- seen in movies: twister, clear and present danger, hunt for red october,
- Ronald Reagan had them
- gave Gorbechev one as a gift: American ingenuity
- Geochron still has a mechanical shop to service them
- refurbish 300 / yr
- build 100 / yr new
- $2500-$4000 for new mechanical
- 25 hours to assemble
- Geochron Digital
- renders 4K on the client
- pulls maps and data from geochron
- HDMI
- used on carnival cruises, since light on internet
- his geochron shows:
- pota
- airplanes
- weather / hurricane
- naval carriers for US and others
- aurora predictions
- earthquakes
- lighting strikes
- noaa satellite images
- fire hotspots in CA
- pollution
- remote controlled or by phone app
- ISS has a video feed you can show on Geochron, and you can see lightning
- Atlas 1 can’t render the newer animated overlays
- Atlas 2 and pro (new this week) show everything
- ham radio features
- CQ zone maps
- geocentric map
- FT8
- MUF
- watch for “holes” on the way to a target where the signal would “escape”
- filter by callsign prefixes (VK)
- POTA / SOTA
- ISS
- satellites filtered by mode with footprint
- QRZ logbook integration
- where the moon is shining - moon terminator
- need to customize, since there’s so much data
- opacity
- Atlas 2 - $425 -
- 16 layers included with internet access
- $2-11/month or more layers
- email coupon@geochron.com for code
- $425
- free ham radio annual pass