What I'm up to….
A while back I discovered the new Russian weather satellite Meteor-M2 and decided I simply must find a way to receive the bird with my SDR devices.
Thanks to a couple posts over at http://www.rtl-sdr.com/ I was able to receive the satellite and decode the images. Here are two of my recent images. I’ll post up a video on this soon!
Last night I tried my first YouTube live broadcast and it was amazing! I got to spend an hour with a few subscribers/members of the mkme.org community and had a blast!
I learned a few things about my settings and hardware so I decided to try it again this coming Monday at 7:00 pm Eastern time. During this broadcast I will do the draw for the 3D printed case giveaway live on the air- with a small surprise announcement.
hope you can join! Post a comment on the event if you would like to join the hangout live on the air. You can always watch the broadcast live on G+ or YouTube as well.
Here is the giveaway info if you haven’t entered already:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kieSDm5g0cc
Here is the G+ event page. look forward to seeing you!
http://plus.google.com/u/0/events/ccscj4k50453e5j5tj3cjqmruq0
Watch on YouTube here:
http://youtu.be/DPF8p1uZ-UE
Cheers!
This morning I decided to fire up the ultra cheap software defined radio (DVB-T dongle) so my PC could grab some weather satellite photos from the NOAA satellites.
If you haven’t heard- you can now buy a $10 USB device which functions as an all band radio receiver. Tonnes of freeware programs now exist to work with these signals. One fun use is decoding the weather images directly from the satellites. It is really a simple process and your PC can stitch together multiple images to cover a large portion of any area.
Here is a composite image which is actually 3 satellite passes today which were automatically stitched together and displayed. Not too bad for a $10 USB stick 🙂
I am using a commercial QFH antenna but you can easily make your own as well. If you haven’t already- check out my videos on the cheap software defined radios- the number of things we can receive is quite incredible!
Here is the website which my receiver automatically updates when I have it configured to receive the NOAA images.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/89861404/WXtoImg/index.html
Here are the tutorial videos I made so anyone can use these little software defined radios to receive satellite weather transmission easily.
Cheers!