Receiving weather satellite images using Gqrx and RTLSDR

[Alexandru Csete]

Greetings,

Today I have successfully received and decoded satellite images sent by the NOAA-15 polar orbiting weather satellite. If you are interested you can take a look at the howto I just posted:
http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gnu-radio/gnu-radio-blog/477-noaa-apt-reception-with-gqrx-and-rtlsdr

Please post your images if you receive any.

Alex

[Paul Warren]

Aweseme! this is pretty much why I got into SDR! What antenna did you
use for this?

I'm planning on building something like this one, a Quadrifilar Helix

http://www.qsl.net/kf4cpj/qha/

Cheers
Paul

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[Alexandru Csete]

Hi Paul,

In this particular case I used a handheld ArrowII satellite antenna:
http://www.arrowantennas.com/arrowii/146-437.html

For a permanent installation I think the QFH or similar antenna would
be better. You may want to try adding an LNA for lowering the noise
figure, in particular if you will need to run a longer coax from the
antenna.

Alex