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Creating An Automated Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR Based NOAA Weather Satellite...
The nootropicdesign blog has recently uploaded a comprehensive tutorial showing how to create an automated NOAA Weather Satellite ground station using an RTL-SDR V3 and an Raspberry Pi 3. The project...
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The Toosheh Project: An Outernet-like Service for Iran and the Middle East
If you've been following our blog over the years, you'll know that we've mentioned the "Outernet" (now known as "Othernet") service a few times. Othernet is a satellite service that wants to provide...
View ArticleBuilding a FossaSat-1 LoRa IoT Ground Station
FossaSat-1 is a recently launched open source "picosatellite" with an onboard LoRa repeater designed for Internet of Things (IoT) communications. It was launched via the Electron Rocket in New Zealand...
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Meteor M N2-2 Has Failed but Recovery May be Possible
UPDATE: It has now been confirmed by Roscosmos that the satellite was struck by what is presumed to be a micrometeorite which caused a leak of thermal transfer gas, and hence a sudden orbit change. It...
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Meteor-M N2-2 Weather Satellite Updates: No More 137 MHz LRPT, L/X-Band...
In late December 2019 we posted about Russian weather satellite Meteor M N2-2 which had unfortunately been struck by a micro-meteorite on Dec 18, causing it to lose control and go offline. Meteor M N2...
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Look4Sat: An Android App for Tracking and Predicting Amateur Radio and...
Thank you to Arty Bishop for submitting news about his recently released Android App called Look4Sat. Look4Sat is a satellite tracker and pass predictor with a focus on amateur radio and weather...
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MEMESat-1: A Meme-Beaming Cubesat Currently In Development
The Mission for Education and Multimedia Engagement Satellite (MEMESat-1) is planned to be the first meme broadcasting cube satellite ever created. If you aren't down with modern slang and are not...
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OpenAstroTracker: 3D Printed DSLR Tracking Mount may be useful for Antennas Too
OpenAstroTracker is a recently published open hardware 3D printed tracking mount designed to move DSLR cameras for astrophotography. The mount supports heavy long lenses, so we think that this mount...
View ArticleA Seminar on Setting up and Understanding a SatNOGS Satellite Ground Station
At the 2019 TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), Corey Shields (KB9JHU) and Dan White (AD0CQ) presented a comprehensive guide on setting up your own SatNOGS satellite ground receiver station....
View ArticleStarlink Doppler Reflections Caught with an RTL-SDR
Over on YouTube William IU2EFA has been uploading multiple short "meteor scatter" videos. This involves using an RTL-SDR to briefly receive distant radio stations via the RF signal reflecting off the...
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Receiving SMOG-P and ATL-1 Nano Satellites with an RTL-SDR
Thank you to Zoltan Doczi (HA7DCD) for submitting his tutorial that shows how to receive signals from the SMOG-P and ATL-1 nano satellites which were launched via Rocket Lab back in late 2019. SMOG-P...
View ArticleYouTube Series on Inmarsat Decoding with Scytale-C
Paul (microp11) is the programmer behind the Scytale-C Inmarsat decoder which has become very popular with RTL-SDR owners. With Scytale-C, and RTL-SDR and an appropriate L-band antenna and amplifier it...
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A Few GOES Reception Tips and Info on Receiving EMWIN Data
Thank you to Carl Reinemann for writing in and sharing his website that contains a few tips that he's learned when setting up an RTL-SDR based receiver for GOES 16/17 weather satellite image reception....
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Tutorial on Using xrit-rx to Receive Weather Images from Geostationary...
Over on his website VKSDR has recently released a tutorial about his Linux based xirt-rx software which allows RTL-SDR and other SDR owners receive weather images from the geostationary satellite known...
View ArticleUnderstanding PLLs and their Importance when Receiving/Transmitting on QO-100
Over on YouTube Andreas Speiss has uploaded a video that explains what the geostationary QO-100 satellite is, and explains about the parts needed to receive and transmit to it. In particular Andreas...
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QO-100 Bullseye TCXO Ultra Stable LNB Now Available in our Store for $29.95...
Back in March we posted about Othernet's release of their "Bullseye" TCXO ultra stable LNB for receiving QO-100 and other Ku-Band satellites. We have decided to now offer these for sale on our store as...
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Decoding HIRS Instrument Images from NOAA Weather Satellites
Thank you to Björn Schnabel who has written in to notify us about a website he's created for a program written by Zbigniew Sztanga called NOAA-HIRS-decoder which might be of interest to some RTL-SDR...
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GR-HRPT: GNU Radio HRPT Decoder Blocks for NOAA, METEOR, MetOp and FengYun-3...
Thank you to @Derek33197785 for writing in and highlighting @aang254's work on gr-hrpt, a GNU Radio 3.8 port of HRPT blocks from gr-noaa and other projects. These blocks are for decoding the HRPT...
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An Art Project Involving GOES-16 & NOAA Weather Satellite Reception with SDR
As part of his Bachelor of Architecture studies Daniel Tompkins created an art installation called "signs of life" which was focused around his interest in weather satellite reception with an SDR. FM...
View ArticleDragonOS: Decoding Iridium Satellites with the Iridium Toolkit and an RTL-SDR
DragonOS is a ready to use Linux OS image that includes various SDR programs preinstalled and ready to use. The creator Aaron also runs a YouTube channel that has multiple tutorial videos demonstrating...
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