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Introduction Four years ago I was able to receive signals from GOES16, a geostationary weather satellite located at 75.2degW (Ref.1/6). I used goestools on RaspberryPi4B. In the last post I decoded signals from Meteor M2-3/4 using SatDump. I noticed that this program also handled GOES. So I setup my dish again and was able to… Continue reading RTL-SDR for Satellite Weather – GOES16

Introduction Recently I received a notice that NOAA15/18/19 transmissions were coming to an end (Ref.1). Over the past several years I have enjoyed monitoring these transmissions (Ref.2). However from reading various Newsgroups, it appeared that satellite weather was still available on the Meteor satellite family M2-3 & M2-4 (Ref.3). So I set about trying to… Continue reading RTL-SDR for Satellite Weather-Meteor M2-3/4

Introduction In previous posts (Ref.1/3) I looked at using a new GNSS receiver with AIS on various combinations of Win10/RPi4/OpenStreetMap/OpenCPN. In this post I look at GNSS on full receive 921600bps with AIScatcher. Equipment Block Diagram Figure 1 shows the receive block diagram. To receive all 4 satellite constellations you have to have the maximum… Continue reading AIS & GNSS on OpenCPN

Introduction Several years ago, I looked at receiving NOAA15/18/19 satellite weather using various configurations with a Windows 10 laptop and a Raspberry Pi4B (Ref.1/5). I also simulated the NOAA-APT transmission using Scicos (Ref.6). I thought it would interesting to revisit NOAA and try some different ideas I picked up working with Cubesats. Satellite Tracking Figure… Continue reading RTL-SDR for NOAA15/18/19 Satellite Weather-Summer 2025