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Preorder Sale: Active L-Band 1525-1660 Inmarsat and Iridium Patch Back In...
We have just received stock of our new L-band active patch antenna design. The antenna is designed for receiving L-band satellites such as Inmarsat, Iridium, GPS and other satellites that transmit...
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SMOG-1 PocketQube Satellite Successfully Launched and in Orbit
Thank you to Zoltan Doczi (HA7DCD) for submitting news about the successful launch and first reception of the SMOG-1 PocketQube Satellite (which is only 5x5x5cm in size). The pre-launch press release...
View ArticleBuilding a GOES-16 Antenna out of Trash, Cardboard and Foil Tape
Over on his YouTube channel saveitforparts has uploaded a video showing how he was able to modify and old DirectTV satellite dish found in the dumpster with cardboard and foil in order to receive...
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NOAA-2 Returns from the Dead
Satellites can stay in orbit for years after their decommissioning date. Although they are turned off, often after many years they can turn on again as the battery chemicals begin to break down,...
View ArticleTwo reviews of our new L-Band Patch Antenna + Stock Update
Last month we released our new L-band active patch antenna for sale, and not too long after we had a review from Frugal Radio praising it. We now have two more YouTube reviews available to share. The...
View ArticleBuilding an Automated NOAA and Meteor Weather Satellite Image Collector with...
Over on his YouTube channel saveitforparts has uploaded a video showing how he has built an automated weather satellite image collector for the NOAA APT and Meteor M2 LRPT satellites. The video shows a...
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Decoding NOAA on an Debian Chrooted Android Smartphone
Over on Reddit Ian Grody (u/DutchOfBurdock) has posted about his success in using a modded Android smartphone to run an RTL-SDR Blog V3 and NOAA decoder software all within the phone itself. In the...
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Frugal Radio: How To Decode L band Satellite ACARS and CPDLC messages with...
In the latest episode of his YouTube series on Aviation monitoring Rob explores how to decode L-band satellite ACARS (Aircraft Communication Addressing and Reporting System) and CPDLC (Controller Pilot...
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Using an RTL-SDR Dongle to Receive Pictures from the ISS
Over on YouTube we've seen a good video from channel Ham Radio DX where presenter Hayden shows how to use an RTL-SDR to receive slow scan television (SSTV) images from the International Space Station...
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Elektro-L3 Geostationary Weather Satellite: Easy to Receive LRIT Signal Being...
Back in September 2020 we posted about the release of an X-Band decoder for the Elektro-L2 and Elektro-L3 Russian geostationary satellites. These satellites are receivable from Europe, the Middle East,...
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Layering Geo-Spatial Fire Data onto GOES Satellite Imagery
Thank you to Carl Reinemann (aka usradioguy) for writing in and sharing with us how he has developed a script to layer FIRMS data (Fire Information for Resource Management System US / Canada) onto GOES...
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SDR Talks from the SDRMakerspace Online Presentation
Thank you to Robert for letting us know about these videos from the "ESA ARTES SDR MakerSpace Presentations" from September 6-8, 2021 which are now available on YouTube. Libre Space Foundation (...
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LeanHRPT – A set of tools for the manipulation of HRPT data
Over on Reddit u/Xerbot has posted about the release of his new software called "LeanHRPT". When combined with a software defined radio, this software can be used to decode and view HRPT weather...
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Receiving Starlink Beacons with an RTL-SDR and LNB
Derek OK9SGC has recently posted a write-up of how they’ve been able to receive the Ku-band beacon signals from the Starlink constellation of communication satellites continually launched by SpaceX...
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Technical Details on an SDR Supercluster with Eight HackRFs
A few weeks ago we posted about Reddit member u/OlegKutkov who used his HackRF supercluster to receive Starlink beacons, but details on the HackRF supercluster project itself were a little sparse. Now...
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SDRAngel Features Overview: ADS-B, APT, DVB-S, DAB+, AIS, VOR, APRS, and many...
SDRAngel is a general purpose software defined radio program that is compatible with most SDRs including the RTL-SDR. We've posted about it several times before on the blog, however we did not realize...
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A Comprehensive Beginners Guide to HRPT Weather Satellite Reception
Over on his blog Derek (OK9SGC) has recently uploaded a very comprehensive beginners guide to receiving HRPT weather satellite images. HRPT reception can be a little daunting as it requires a good...
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Receiving X-Band Images from the Arktika-M1 Arctic Monitoring Satellite
Recently on Twitter @arvedviehweger (Arved) has tweeted that he has successfully received images from the Russian Arctic monitoring satellite known as ARKTIKA-M1, via it's X-band downlink at 7865 MHz....
View ArticleReceiving Analog TV from Turkmenistan Unintentionally Bouncing off a Russian...
Over on Twitter @dereksgc has been monitoring the 'Meridian' communications satellites, which are Russian owned and used for civilian and military purposes. The satellites are simple unsecure...
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Lon.TV Demonstrates Decoding Various Digital Signals with RTL-SDR
Tech YouTuber Lon.TV has recently uploaded a video demonstrating how to identify and decode various digital transmissions with an RTL-SDR dongle. In the video he explains how to use VB Cable to pipe...
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