Hacking a Secondhand Marine Satellite Dish to Track Satellites with Gpredict
Thank you to Melan / Alex for submitting news about their project, where they reverse-engineered a second-hand Intellian i4 marine satellite dish, which retails new for around €4000 but which they...
View ArticleNew YouTube Tutorials for SatDump V2.x.x
Thank you to Paul Maine, who has submitted to us new SatDump tutorials that he has uploaded to his YouTube channel. The new tutorials focus on the new SatDump V2.x.x alpha version. The first tutorial...
View ArticleGround Station: An Open Source SDR Orchestration Platform for Satellite...
Over on GitHub, we've seen the release of a new program simply called "Ground Station", described as a full-featured, open-source software solution for satellite tracking and radio communication. The...
View ArticleDiscovery Drive Campaign Now Live!
We're extremely pleased to announce that our campaign for our Discovery Drive automatic antenna rotator is now live on Crowd Supply! Pricing is reduced during the campaign period, so check it out soon!...
View ArticleIridium-Sniffer: A Standalone Iridium Satellite Burst Detector and Demodulator
Thank you to Aaron, who is most well known for creating the DragonOS distribution, for writing in and sharing with us a new open-source program he's recently released over on GitHub. The program is...
View ArticleTech Minds: Testing Out A New Signals Intelligence Tool Called Intercept
Over on the Tech Minds YouTube channel, Matt has uploaded a video where he tests out 'Intercept', a new tool for RF signals intelligence with RTL-SDRs and other wireless devices. It is open source with...
View ArticleGhostHunter (Anti-LIF): Using Spiking Neural Networks to Rescue Satellite...
Thank you to Edwin Temporal for writing in and showing how his proprietary neuromorphic engine, GhostHunter (Anti-LIF), is being used to recover satellite data buried in the noise floor, which typical...
View ArticleUsing the Don’t Look Up Tool to Eavesdrop on Insecure Private Satellite...
Over on YouTube, Rob VK8FOES has uploaded a video showing how to install and use the "dontlookup" open-source Linux Python research tool for evaluating satellite IP link security. Back in October, we...
View ArticleEavesdropping on Sensitive Data via Unencrypted Geostationary Satellites
Recently, Wired.com released an article based on research by researchers at UC San Diego and the University of Maryland, highlighting how much sensitive unencrypted data many geostationary satellites...
View ArticleA Small 11.2 GHz Motorized Radio Telescope with TV Dish and RTL-SDR
Thank you to Kaustav Bhattacharjee for writing in and submitting to us his project, where he created a small 11.2 GHz motorized radio telescope with a TV dish and an RTL-SDR. A full description of...
View ArticleSignalsEverywhere Android Project Updates: Satellite Tracker, HackTV NTSC...
Recently, Sarah Rose Giddings (aka SignalsEverywhere) has been actively developing several radio and SDR based projects for Android, and she would like to provide an update on them. First, as mentioned...
View ArticleAmateur Weather Satellite Reception Beyond NOAA POES
With the recent decommissioning of NOAA POES (NOAA-15, NOAA-18, NOAA-19), many amateur weather satellite hobbyists might be asking themselves if the hobby is now dead. While NOAA POES satellites were...
View ArticleMoving SatDump Towards V2.0.0
Over on the SatDump blog developers Aang23 and Lego11 have recently uploaded a post discussing their plans to move SatDump towards Version 2.0.0. SatDump is currently the most comprehensive and popular...
View ArticleSaveitforparts: Receiving NOAA-15 One Last Time
Over on YouTube Gabe from the saveitforparts channel has uploaded a new video discussing the decommissioning of NOAA-15 and NOAA-19. We also previously posted about this topic a few days ago, if you...
View ArticleDiscovery Drive: An Affordable Antenna Rotator Crowd Funding Pre-Launch Page...
We're happy to announce that the pre-launch page for our "Discovery Drive" automatic antenna rotator is now live! Please sign up to be notified of when the crowdfunding page goes live as the price will...
View ArticleTechMinds: Testing out the SkyRoof Software for Receiving and Tracking...
At the beginning of this month, we posted about SkyRoof, a new software program by VE3NEA for receiving and tracking ham radio satellites with an RTL-SDR and other SDRs. Recently, Matt from the...
View ArticleUpdates To NOAA-18 Decommissioning: NOAA-18 Has Now Shut Down
A few days ago, we posted news that NOAA-18 was to begin decommissioning steps effective immediately due to a recent transmitter failure. Multiple reports have now confirmed that NOAA-18 has indeed...
View ArticleNOAA18 to Begin Decommissioning Steps Immediately
In April, we posted news that the NOAA satellites would be classed as 'end-of-life' on June 16, 2025. According to the statements, the satellites were expected to remain in orbit and continue...
View ArticleAI Cloud Detection for GOES Weather Satellite Images on a Raspberry Pi
Over on his blog account at Hackser.io Justin Lutz has uploaded an article describing how he uses AI object detection to automatically detect clouds on weather satellite images that he's downloaded...
View ArticleNOAA 15, 18, 19 End of Life Announcement – But Transmissions will Continue...
Over on the USradioguy.com blog, we've seen news from Carl Reinmann noting that NOAA 15, 18, and 19 will be classed as end-of-life on June 16, 2025. These NOAA satellites are ones commonly used by...
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