Using a TV Dipole Antenna for NOAA Satellite Reception
Over on YouTube icholakov has uploaded a video showing how effective a simple old TV bunny ears antenna can be at receiving NOAA satellite images. The old TV antenna is telescoping so it can be...
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Outernet: Patch antenna now sold seperately + other products
Back in June we tested Outernet’s new Dreamcatcher which is an ARM based computing board with RTL-SDR and L-band LNA built in. The $99 USD kit also included an external active L-band patch antenna. The...
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Demodulating the Outernet signal with leandvb and an RTL-SDR
Leandvb is command line based lightweight DVB-S decoder designed for receiving Digital Amateur TV, including signals like HamTV from the International Space Station. The RTL-SDR can be used together...
View ArticleListening to Astronauts on the ISS with an RTL-SDR and V-Dipole (ARISS...
Manuel a.k.a ‘Tysonpower’ has been using his RTL-SDR (and his Baofeng) to listen in on ARISS contacts from the International Space Station (ISS). ARISS stands for Amateur Radio on the ISS, and is a...
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Receiving the Bitcoin Blockchain from Satellites with an RTL-SDR
Bitcoin is the worlds first and most popular digital currency. It is steadily gaining in value and popularity and is already accepted in many online stores as a payment method. In order to use Bitcoin...
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dopplerscript: Getting Doppler Updates from GPredict into GNU Radio
Thanks to Dave for submitting news of his recent release of his Python script called dopplerscript. This is a tool that can help people automate the reception and decoding of the Meteor M2 weather...
View Article(Almost) Receiving HRPT with the ADALM-PLUTO and a WiFi Grid Antenna
Over on YouTube user Tysonpower has uploaded a video showing how he was (almost) able to receive the HRPT signal from NOAA18 with an ADALM-PLUTO, LNA4ALL and a WiFi grid antenna. Most readers will be...
View Article3D Printing a V-Dipole Bracket
Over on his YouTube channel user Tysonpower has uploaded a video that shows how to make a V-Dipole antenna. Back in March we posted about the V-Dipole which Adam 9A4QV first described. A V-Dipole is a...
View ArticleDecoding the ALERT Protocol from a USGS Streamgage with an RTL-SDR
Over on his YouTube channel GusGorman402 has uploaded a video that shows how he was able to capture and decode data from a USGS (United States Geological Service) streamgage. A streamgage is a sensor...
View ArticleTesting the Prototype Outernet Patch Antenna with Built in RTL-SDR
A few months ago satellite data broadcasting company Outernet created a limited number of prototype receivers that combined an L-band satellite patch antenna, LNA and RTL-SDR into a signal unit. This...
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A Tutorial on Receiving HRPT Weather Satellite Images with an SDRplay RSP2
RSP2user's HRPT equipment Over on the SDRplay forums user 'RSP2user' has put up a quality post describing how he receives HRPT weather satellite images with his SDRplay RSP2. HRPT stands for 'High...
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Outernet 3.0 Coming Soon: Free 30kbps – 100kbps satellite data downlink for...
The new Outernet Dreamcatcher v3.01 Over the past few years we've posted quite a bit about Outernet who offered a free downlink of satellite data such as news, Wikipedia articles and weather updates...
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December High Powered Rocket Flight with RTL-SDR used for GPS Measurements
The rocket carrying the RTL-SDR. Back in April and July of last year we posted about Philip Hahn and Paul Breed's experiments to use an RTL-SDR for GPS logging on their high powered small rockets....
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Outernet 3.0: Implementation Details and a 71,572km LoRa World Record
Outernet Dreamcatcher Board running with a cheap satellite TV LNB Outernet 3.0 is gearing up for launch soon, and just today they've released a blog post introducing us to the RF protocol technology...
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Decoding Meteor-M Images on a Raspberry Pi with an RTL-SDR
Thanks to Andrey for writing in and showing us his Java based Meteor-M decoder for the RTL-SDR which he uses on a Raspberry Pi. The decoder is based on the meteor-m2-lrpt GNU Radio script and the...
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Art from Satellite Transmissions: SatNOGS and Software Defined Radio used in...
One of the piezo speakers playing the satellite transmissions. In the past we've seen software defined radio's like the HackRF use to create art installations such as the 'Holypager', which was an art...
View ArticleThe NOAA-15 Weather Satellite May be Failing
Over the last few days the NOAA-15 APT weather satellite has begun to show signs of failure with people receiving corrupted images. NOAA 15, 18 and 19 are weather satellites that can be easily received...
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Building A Low Cost GOES Weather Satellite Receiver with an RTL-SDR
Over on Twitter and his github.io page, Pieter Noordhuis (@pnoordhuis) has shared details about his low cost RTL-SDR based GOES satellite receiving setup. GOES 15/16/17 are geosynchronous weather...
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Outernet’s Old Antenna Stock for Sale: L-Band Active and Filtered Ceramic...
In the past the Outernet project operated on L-band frequencies, and for the service they manufactured a number of active L-band active ceramic patch antennas for use with RTL-SDR dongles. Outernet has...
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Receiving GOES Weather Satellite HRIT with an SDRplay and 2.4 GHz WiFi Grid...
Over on the SDRplay forums member RSP2user has posted a new tutorial, this time showing how to receive weather satellite images from GOES satellites with an RSP2 and cheap 2.4 GHz WiFi grid antenna....
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