Step-by-step Guide to Creating a GNU Radio Based QO-100 SSB Receiver
Thank you to M Khanfar for submitting his video that shows a step-by-step tutorial on building your own SSB receiver in Windows GNU Radio for QO-100 satellite reception. His tutorial includes adding...
View ArticleTechMinds: Building a 3D Printed 2.4 GHz Dual Feed Helix for QO-100
The Bullseye LNB that we have in our store is great for receiving the QO-100 amateur geostationary radio satellite which is available in some parts of the world. However it cannot be used to transmit...
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NyanSat: A Low Cost Open Source Satellite Ground Station
Thank you to John D for writing in and letting us know that Wired magazine has recently run an article about the "Nyansat" project. Nyansat aims to bring low cost open source satellite ground stations...
View ArticleDefcon 2020 Online Talks: Satellite Eavesdropping & Detecting Fake 4G Base...
DEFCON 2020 was held online this year in and the talks were released a few days ago on their website and on YouTube. If you weren't already aware Defcon is a major yearly conference all about...
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Sanchez: Create False Colour Images from GOES/Himawari/GK-2A Infrared
With an RTL-SDR, an appropriate satellite antenna and LNA it is possible to receive visible light images from geostationary satellites such as GOES/Himawari and GK-2A. However, in a 24 hour cycle there...
View ArticleTechMinds: Decoding GPS with an RTL-SDR
Over on his YouTube channel Tech Minds has uploaded a video showing how it's possible to receive and decode GPS signals with an RTL-SDR. To do this he uses one of our RTL-SDR Blog V3 dongles and a GPS...
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33% OFF Sale: Ultra Stable Bullseye LNB for QO-100/Es’Hail-2
Back in May we started selling the Bullseye LNB on our store, which is an ultra stable LNB for receiving QO-100 and other Ku-Band satellites/applications. We have recently managed to secure a good deal...
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Decoder for Geostationary Elektro-L Weather Satellites Released
Elektro-L is a range of Russian geostationary weather satellites. Elektro-L1 and L2 were launched in 2011 and 2015 respectively, and Elektro-L3 was launched more recently in December 2019. Currently...
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Sanchez Updates: Combine Weather Images from GK-2A, Himawari-8, GOES 16/17...
Back in August we posted about the release of Sanchez, a tool originally designed to apply a color underlay image to grayscale infrared images received from geostationary weather satellites such as...
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Microwave Humidity Sounder Decoder for the NOAA-19 Satellite Released
Back in June we posted about the release of Zbigniew Sztanga's NOAA-HIRS-Decoder which can decode HIRS instrument data which measures the vertical temperature profile of the Earth's surface. This HIRS...
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Bullseye TCXO LNB for QO-100 33% Off Sale Ending Soon
On September 15 we began our 33% off stock reduction sale for the Bullseye LNB. The Bullseye is an ultra stable LNB for receiving QO-100 and other Ku-Band satellites/applications. We'll be ending this...
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Sanchez Scripting Examples For Post-Processing GOES, GK2A, Himawari, Elektro...
Recently we posted about new updates to the Sanchez software. The updates allow users to combine images received from multiple geostationary weather satellites such as GOES 16/17, Himawari-8, GK-2A and...
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New GOES Weather Satellite Bundle from NooElec
NooElec have recently released for sale a GOES geostationary weather satellite reception bundle which includes a parabolic grid dish, feed, GOES LNA and RTL-SDR dongle. The bundle should be usable for...
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Information about Receiving the GOES-13 Weather Satellite (Europe Coverage...
For some time now many weather satellite enthusiasts have enjoyed the ability to relatively easily receive live high resolution images directly from the GOES-16, GOES-17 and GK-2A geostationary...
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FengYun-2H/G Geostationary Weather Satellite Now Decodable with 120cm Dish...
Hot on the heels of the GOES-13 weather satellite decoder that we posted about a few days ago, @aang254 has just released a new RTL-SDR compatible decoder for the FengYun-2H, 2G and possibly 2E...
View ArticleTech Minds: Decoding Orbcomm Satellites with a Software Defined Radio
Over on his YouTube channel TechMinds has uploaded a new video showing how to decode signals from Orbcomm satellites. Orbcomm run a global network of low earth orbit satellites that perform services...
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Using SDR to Investigate Telemetry Still Broadcasting from 1960’s Satellite...
Thank you to Derek @ok9sgc for pointing us to some work Reddit user u/Xerbot has been doing on receiving telemetry coming down from a "dead" 1960's satellite called Transit-5B5. The fleet of Transit...
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SATRAN: An Affordable Motorized Satellite Antenna Rotator
Recently we came across the SATRAN project by Daniel Nikolajsen, which is an attempt to design, build and sell low cost kits of an automatic motorized satellite antenna rotator for less than US$200. A...
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FengYun-2G Confirmed to be Receivable with a WiFi Grid Dish
Back in November 2020 we posted about the release of a decoder for the FengYun line of geostationary weather satellites which provide full disk images of the Earth and are positioned to cover parts of...
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Using 50 Lines of Python Code to Decode NOAA APT Weather Satellite Images
There are already many image decoders for the NOAA APT weather satellites available, with the most common and feature rich program being the abandoned freeware "WXtoIMG". However many people may not...
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