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SatDump Projections Improved
SatDump is a popular program that is used with RTL-SDRs and other SDRs for decoding transmissions from a wide array of weather satellites and their various imagers and sensors. Recently SatDump's...
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Discovery Dish Now Available for Crowd Funding! A Lightweight Dish and Feed...
Today our Crowd Funding campaign for the Discovery Dish has gone live! Thank you to anyone who supports this project and our goal of bringing affordable products that make getting into various radio...
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Modifying a 2.4 GHz WiFi Grid Antenna for Improved 1.7 GHz Reception + DIY...
People have had much success in receiving L-band weather satellites like GOES and polar orbiting HRPT satellites using 2.4 GHz WiFi grid dishes, even though their 1.7 GHz signals are considered out of...
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Crowd Supply Discovery Dish Teardown Session: Thursday 30 November Noon PST
Crowd Supply is hosting Teardown Session 38 on Thursday 3- November at Noon PST time which will feature the Discovery Dish. Join us for this livestream where I will be talking about and showing the...
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Discovery Dish Updates and Some Cool Hi-Res Images
We have recently posted an update on our Discovery Dish crowd funding campaign over on Crowd Supply. Check it out on the update page, or on the repost down below. Discovery Dish Teardown Session...
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Multiple Comprehensive Tutorials on Weather Satellite Decoding
Over on his website "Jacopo's Lair" IU1QPR (@original_lego11) who is also a developer for SatDump has written up many tutorials about weather satellite decoding that involve the use of SatDump. SatDump...
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Spacewalker LNA 434 MHz In Prelaunch at CrowdSupply
Thank you to Zoltan and team for submitting news of the prelaunch of their Spacewalker LNA 434 MHz. Spacewalker LNA is designed to improve reception of PocketSat and Cubesat satellite signals when...
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WXCorrector: Updating Keplers for Linux users of WXtoIMG
Thank you to Hamdy Abou El Anein for submitting news about the release of his software called "WXCorrector". WXCorrector is a dedicated solution designed specifically for Linux users who face...
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IndiaRocketGirl Receives FengYun-2H S-VISSR Satellite Images
Over on her YouTube channel IndiaRocketGirl has posted a video showing how she was able to build a satellite dish and feed to receive FengYun-2H S-VISSR signals and get beautiful full disk images of...
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Meteor M2-4 Successfully Deployed to Orbit and now Transmitting Weather Images
The long awaited Russian Meteor M2-4 satellite was successfully launched on February 29, 2024 and is now in orbit, and is already transmitting images. If you are unfamiliar with them, Meteor M...
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Receiving SSTV From the Russian UmKA-1/RS40S Cubesat
YouTuber 'saveitforparts' was recently contacted by the ground controller of the Russian UmKA-1/RS40S cubesat asking if he'd like to try and receive an SSTV image from the satellite. UmKA-1/RS40S is a...
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Saveitforparts: Building a Satellite Antenna from an Emergency Blanket and a...
Over on his YouTube channel, 'saveitforpaarts' has uploaded two new videos. The first shows how he was able to build a very cheap satellite antenna for GOES satellites out of an umbrella and a metallic...
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Meteor M2-4 has not failed – it is still in the testing phase
Thank you to Robin OK9UWU who wanted to point out that the recently launched Russian Meteor M2-4 weather satellite has not failed. There have recently been rumors and videos being spread online...
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Saveitforparts: Receiving and Decoding L-Band Weather Satellites
Over on his YouTube channel 'saveitforparts' has uploaded a new video showing how he has been successful at receiving and decoding L-band weather satellites using his setup made from scavenged parts....
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Testing a WiFi Grid Antenna for L-Band Satellites
Over on YouTube dereksgc has uploaded a video where he tests out a 2.4 GHz WiFi Grid antenna for L-band weather satellite reception. WiFi grid antennas are typically repurposed in the SDR community for...
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Gypsum: A Software-Defined GPS Receiver written in Python + A Writeup on How...
Thank you to RTL-SDR.COM reader Lee. who found a recently released program called "gypsum" which enables an RTL-SDR or HackRF to be used as a GPS Receiver when combined with a GPS antenna. Phillip...
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YouTube Video Series on Iridium Satellite Decoding with an Airspy, RTL-SDR...
Over on his YouTube channel, Rob VK8FOES has started a new video series about Iridium Satellite Decoding. Iridium is a constellation of low-earth orbiting satellites that provide voice and data...
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GOES-U Satellite Launched and on the way to Geostationary Orbit
On June 25 the NOAA GOES-U weather satellite was successfully launched on a SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy rocket. Once it reaches geostationary orbit, this will be a new weather satellite that RTL-SDR...
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SatDump 1.2.1 Released
SatDump is a popular program used to receive and decode images and other data from various weather satellites. SatDump works great RTL-SDR Blog dongles and with our Discovery Dish, an easy-to-use dish...
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Receiving Starlink Signals with an RTL-SDR and Ku-Band LNB
Over on YouTube, dereksgc has uploaded a new video showing how to receive signals from Starlink satellites using an RTL-SDR and a standard Ku band LNB. Note that this setup simply receives the raw...
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