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NooElec SAWBird: An LNA + Filter for GOES Weather Satellite Reception Now...
NooElec has just released their new "SAWbird" GOES LNA for sale. This is an LNA and filter combination designed to help receive GOES weather satellite images. On the PCB is a 1688 MHz SAW filter and a...
View ArticleYouTube Video Demonstrates GOES Weather Satellite Reception
On The Thought Emporium YouTube channel a new video has been uploaded showing the full disk images of the earth that they've been able to receive from GOES geosynchronous weather satellites. Over the...
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A Step by Step Tutorial to Receiving GOES-16 Images with an RTL-SDR,...
Aleksey Smolenchuk (lxe) has recently uploaded a step-by-step guide to setting up a GOES weather satellite receiver with an RTL-SDR dongle, Raspberry Pi and the goestools software. GOES 15/16/17 are...
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USA-Satcom XRIT Decoder Updated
USA-Satcom is the programmer of XRIT Decoder (not to be confused with XRITDecoder by CM2ESP), which is a popular (paid) Windows decoding application for GOES weather satellites. Recently, over on the...
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Es’hail-2: First Geostationary Satellite with Amateur Radio Transponders...
Today SpaceX have successfully launched and deployed the Es'hail-2 satellite which is now in geostationary orbit. This launch is special for amateur radio enthusiasts because it is the first...
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Othernet Sale: $75 Dreamcatcher LoRa Radio, $99 moRFeus Signal Generator
Othernet (previously known as Outernet) are currently having a 50% off sale on all their products. This means that you can snag a discounted Dreamcatcher at only US$75, and a moRFeus at US$99. The sale...
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Using a 25 Meter Radio Dish and an RTL-SDR as a SatNOGS Ground Station
SatNOGS is an open source project that aims to make it easy for volunteers to build and run RTL-SDR or other SDR based RF ground stations that automatically monitor satellites, and upload that data to...
View ArticleBuilding a Carbon Fibre Dual Band Yagi Antenna for Amateur Radio Satellites...
Back in early 2017 we posted about Manuel's (aka DO5TY / Tysonpower) design for a single band 140 MHz 3D printed carbon fibre Yagi antenna. Today he's submitted a new video about creating a dual band...
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Bitcoin Satellite Now Supports Lightning Payments: Receive with RTL-SDR
Bitcoin is a digital currency based on blockchain technology, and Blockstream are a large innovator in the Bitcoin world. They have recently been developing the 'lightning network' which is a layer...
View ArticleCreating an Inmarsat STC-C EGC Live Stream with an RTL-SDR, Raspberry Pi and...
Thanks to Zoltan (aka Veryokay on YouTube) for submitting information about his Inmarsat STD-C EGC live stream setup. His setup allows him to access the Inmarsat STD-C signal from anywhere in the world...
View ArticleVideo Showing How to Decode Meteor M2 with an SDRPlay in Windows
Thanks to "Lolo sdr" for submitting his videos that show his process for receiving and decoding Meteor M2 weather satellite images in Windows with an SDRplay and SDR-Console V3. Since the SDRplay is...
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Es’hail-2 Transponder Tests + Narrow Band Web Stream
Es'hail 2 was launched last November and it is the first geostationary satellite to contain an amateur radio transponder. The satellite is positioned at 25.5°E which is over Africa. It's reception...
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Es’hail-2 Amateur Transponder Now Active
Es'Hail 2 Coverage from Amsat-UK Es'hail 2 was launched last November and it is the first geostationary satellite to contain an amateur radio transponder. The satellite is positioned at 25.5°E which is...
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XRIT Decoder Updated: Improved Image Quality and IR Enhancements
USA-Satcom is the programmer of XRIT Decoder, which is a popular (paid) Windows decoding application for GOES weather satellites. With a WiFi grid dish antenna, LNA and SDRplay, Airspy or even an...
View ArticleAmateur Radio on the Es’hail-2 Satellite Explained on YouTube
Over on YouTube Tech Minds has posted a video explaining what Es'hail-2 satellite is and why it is interesting for hams and SDR users. Briefly Es'hail-2 is a recently launched geostationary TV...
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Othernet Dreamcatcher On Sale for Only $49
Over on the Othernet website the Dreamcatcher hardware is currently on sale for only US$49. This is the lowest we've ever seen it for sale. If you weren't already aware, the Othernet project aims to...
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HackSpace Magazine Discusses SatNOGS, Cubesats and More
HackSpace is a monthly magazine dedicated to modern maker projects. This month issue 18 was released and it focuses on space based projects. The HackSpace Magazine is available for free online in PDF...
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Weather Satellite Images from Geostationary COMS-1 Received
COMS-1 Geostationary Satellite Footprint https://www.wmo-sat.info/oscar/Satellites/view/33 COMS-1 is a geostationary weather satellited operated by the Korean Meteorological Agency (KMA) which was...
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Windows Realtime DVB-S Demodulator for Es’Hail-2 & Amateur TV Available
Thank you to Happysat for writing in and noting that over on the Amsat-DL forums user Markro92 has uploaded a realtime Windows DVB-S demodulator with GUI. The demodulator works with the RTL-SDR,...
View ArticleReceiving Es’Hail-2 DVB-S2 on Ubuntu With LeanDVB
Yesterday we posted about a real time Windows demodulator for receiving amateur TV DVB-S/S2 on Es'Hail-2/QO-100. Recently another YouTube user "M Khanfar" also submitted a video tutorial showing how to...
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