Send an email to me via my address listed on Queen Romeo Zulu dot Charlie Oscar Mike. If you are interested in this software, I can give it to you. There are some links to it on the internet that are broken. The person who wrote WxtoImg “ freeware“, software, no longer supports it. I know people who have used a 2 meter vertical on the roof of a car with fair results. A 2 meter amateur radio antenna will get a picture, with fades. To avoid deep fades you want an antenna that is circularly polarized. Since all satellites spin or tumble while orbiting the Earth, the received signal will change polarity.
Most SDR’s are great for listening to all types of signals from almost DC to daylightĪ good antenna is needed to receive the signal from the weather birds. If you use a smaller bandwidth, you will loose information and details in the received picture. The key is to be able to receive a 38 KHz wide FM signal. It will do any mode, super wide bandwidths, and will allow you to adjust the AGC along with many other parameters. It covers the frequency range of the current U.S., Chinese, and Russian weather satellites. This receiver is perfect for the Weather satellites. I originally bought this to receive telemetry from the amateur radio satellites. I have several SDR’s but my favorite is the FUNcube Dongle Pro Plus. Since this is the most important part of your satellite receiving station you need to remember, “you get what you pay for”. There are a multitude of these devices available in all prices ranges from tens of dollars to a couple hundred dollars. This modern marvel is incorporated in most newer amateur transceivers. You will be able to obtain several weather satellite pictures, in different wavelengths (IR Visible and false color) from one pass of a weather satellite.Ī very versatile receiver available to amateur radio operators is the Software Defined Radio (SDR). I’ll first discuss a little bit about each of the items above, then show a diagram and explain how they all fit together. A method to determine when the weather satellites will be visible at your QTH (FREE or at a cost).SDR Console software to decode what the SDR receives (FREE).An average computer running Windows 10 or 7.An antenna that can receive signals in the 137 MHz band, preferably having a circular polarization.A receiver capable of working with an FM radio signal that is 38 KHz wide.To accomplish this task, you will need the following items: It is not real difficult and is very rewarding.
I have been doing this for the past 25 years. Many amateur radio operators would like to decode weather pictures sent down to the earth by the polar orbiting NOAA weather satellites.
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