In an earlier blog post we described the process of implementing our first version of the GOES16 receiver. That system worked well for about a year until we decided to install a new tower at the GCARC clubhouse that was dedicated to Skunkworks projects. That meant taking down the GOES system and reinstalling it on […]
Below are some images that were copied by the W2MMD Clubhouse satellite station from the W5LFL memorial SSTV project. Some were copied live from the satellite while others were recorded by the clubhouse station and the audio was uploaded to SatNOGS. I downloaded the SatNOGS audio and decoded it locally. This was an especially interesting […]
Building the Raspberry Pi NOAA Satellite Station After building the stationto receive the GOES geostationary weather satellite, constructing the NOAA satellite station was a relative breeze. The NOAA series of satellites (NOAA 15, 18 and 19) are much more similar to amateur satellites than the GOES satellite – they operate in the 137 mhz band, […]
How We Built the GOES Reception Project Updated 12/1/18 Building our functional GOES 16 receiver was a process of broad web research and cobbling together the experiences of many other successful experimenters. We found lots of individual articles on antenna selection, software, and many other topics, but nothing that really pulled everything together. Hopefully this […]
Once again the Russian crew transmitted SSTV pictures from the International Space Station. I left the W2MMD satellite station running with the tracker software set to track the ISS, and the MMTV SSTV program running to capture the images from the SDR radio. Below are some of the better images. On a high pass two […]
The Russian crew on the International Space Station was transmitting SSTV images in mid-April 2018. Below are some of those images.
NOAA satellites transmit live weather FAX pictures that can be copied with the SDR radios at the W2MMD site. They transmit in the 137 MHz range that seems to be receivable by the 2 meter beam. NOAA 15-137.6200 mhz NOAA 18-137.9125 mhz NOAA 19-137.1000 mhz They’re programmed into the PST Rotator app and use the […]
