Weather Satellite Reception

This project has been living rent-free in my head for a long time. Finally pulling actual data out of the sky? Pure, unadulterated satisfaction.

The hardware I used is:

• V-dipole antenna: 54cm, angled at 120°
• Low pass SAW filter: To keep the RF noise floor from ruining my life
• LNA: 20dB gain, 50MHz - 6GHz (overkill? maybe.)
• RTL-SDR v3

For the capturing the signal and actually decoding the bits into something human-readable I used Satdump.

Special thanks to Naji for the help to Jacopo Cassinis for his incredible work over at A-Centauri.

In the section below, I’ll be dumping some of the captures whenever the pass timing and the weather gods align with my free time.

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