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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Decoding Meteor-M2 Weather Satellite Images in Real-Time...
Back in September last year we posted a tutorial written by RTL-SDR.com reader Happysat which showed how to receive and decode high resolution Meteor-M2 LRPT satellite images. The tutorial required...
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Yesterday we posted about a tutorial showing how to decode Meteor-M2 LRPT weather satellite images in real time with a new QPSK decoder plugin for SDR# and a modified version of Lrptdecoder. Over on...
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LightSail now active and transmitting data
The LightSail is a solar sailing spacecraft that has been launched by the planetary society. It is based on the “solar sail” concept, which uses a large reflective foil to harness the suns energy as a...
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Lantern: A New 925 MHz to 2175 MHz RTL2832U Based SDR for Satellite Reception
Over on Reddit we’ve seen news about a new 925 MHz to 2175 MHz RTL2832U based software defined radio which is currently under development. It is called the “Lantern” and is being developed for the...
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SATNOGS Satellite Database Open for Contributions
The SatNOGS project aims to provide low cost satellite ground stations (where one critical component is currently an RTL-SDR dongle) along with free networking software in order to create a crowd...
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An Alternative NOAA Weather Satellite Tutorial using RTL_FM and WxToImg
The RTL-SDR software defined radio is often used to receive signals from NOAA APT weather satellites. Once decoded these signals produce a freshly captured image of the earth over your current...
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Outernet “Lighthouse” Receiver now for sale
Although this isn’t directly SDR related, this story may still be of interest to some readers. The Outernet project have just put on sale their first receiver which is called the Lighthouse. The...
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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Decoding Inmarsat STD-C EGC Messages
Inmarsat is a communications service provider with several geostationary satellites in orbit. They provide services such as satellite phone communications, broadband internet, and short text and data...
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Building an L-band helical antenna for Inmarsat
Previously in August of this year we wrote an article showing how to decode Inmarsat satellite STD-C NCS EGC messages with an RTL-SDR. Inspired by this article, RTL-SDR.com reader Mario Filippi, N2HUN...
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Receiving Digital Amateur TV from the ISS with an RTL-SDR
The international space station (ISS) is currently testing transmission of a DVB-S digital video signal. At the moment only a blank test pattern is transmitted, but one day they hope to be able to...
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Meteor M-N1 Satellite Wakes up from the Dead
RTL-SDR.com reader Happysat recently wrote in with some news. A few days ago a weather satellite image decoding enthusiast from Argentina was waiting for a pass of the Russian Meteor M-N2 satellite...
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Setting up an RTL-SDR based APT/Meteor Satellite Weather Station Receiver
Recently a reader of our blog, Initrd, wrote in to let us know about a new tutorial he created that shows how to set up a dual NOAA APT and Meteor LRPT weather satellite monitoring station with an...
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Receiving and acquiring GPS positions with an RTL-SDR dongle and GPS antenna
GPS experimenter and blog author e.p. has recently been posting about his experiments in which he uses an RTL-SDR dongle to receive GPS satellite signals and acquire a position lock. To receive GPS...
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Testing RTL-SDR and SDRPlay receivers for AERO reception
Jonti, the programmer of the JAERO decoder for L-band AERO signals recently bought and received one of our new RTL-SDR Blog dongles and also an SDRplay unit for testing L-band reception. Previously he...
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Meteor M-N1 Still Working, Meteor M-N2 Still Down
The Meteor M N-2 is a polar orbiting Russian weather satellite that was launched in July 2014. It transmits with the LRPT protocol which allows us to receive weather satellite images that are of a much...
View ArticleBuilding a Wideband Helix Antenna for L/S/C Bands
Over on YouTube user Adam Alicajic (creator of the popular LNA4ALL low noise amplifier) has uploaded a video showing the performance of a home made wideband helix antenna that he has created for...
View ArticleComparing LHCP and RHCP Reception of a Thuraya Satellite with an RTL-SDR and...
Over on YouTube Adam Alicajic 9A4QV (creator of the popular LNA4ALL) has uploaded a video showing a comparison of reception of Thuraya satellites with a LHCP (left hand circular polarization) and RHCP...
View ArticleYouTube video showing Inmarsat C-Band AERO Reception
Last week we posted how programmer Jonti had successfully implemented a C-Band AERO decoder into his JAERO software. C-band AERO signals are the earth downlink portion of AERO. Planes transmit data...
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Finding GPS Signals from within the Noise Floor with an RTL-SDR
If you were to try to simply spot a GPS signal at 1.575 GHz in the spectrum on a waterfall in a program like SDR# you would probably fail to see anything. This is because GPS signals are very weak, and...
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Meteor M-N2 now active again
According to various reports the Russian Meteor M-N2 satellite appears to be active again once more. The Meteor M N-2 is a polar orbiting Russian weather satellite that was launched in July 2014. It...
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