Category: Navigation

Navigation: Celestial, Sextant, Equipment

RTL-SDR for VHF Air Band AM Receiver on GNU Radio

Introduction In a previous post I looked at a simple receiver for VHF Air Band AM (Ref.1). In this post I add several new features in order to select from a stored set of local frequencies and a choice between source blocks. GNU Radio Schematic VHF Air Band AM Receiver Figure 1 shows the GNURC… Continue reading RTL-SDR for VHF Air Band AM Receiver on GNU Radio

RTL-SDR for Satellite Weather – GOES16

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

RTL-SDR for Satellite Weather-Meteor M2-3/4

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