Weather Satellite Receiver Kit

All that is needed is a little know how and a softrock sdr software defined radio receiver kit that interfaces with some open source software to generate satellite weather images like the.

Weather satellite receiver kit.

The orbiting noaa weather satellites require a wider bandwidth receiver though not as wide as that used for fm broadcast signals. Receiving weather satellite imagery directly to your own ground station is great fun. For just a few hundred dollars you can begin a marvelous hobby for yourself a wonderful educational tool for a school science class or a great project for a space club. A special receiver which efficiently isolates the weather satellite signals for best image quality and sends them to a computer a computer laptop with an audio input and the special free software wxtoimg installed.

The effect of receiving the satellite telemetry using a narrow band receiver is that the loudest bits of the signal representing the brightest parts of the image are clipped. In addition an antenna for the 137 mhz range had to be designed. Clouds darting across the countryside. Recognize these transmissions on the news when you see the time lapse of the.

This receiver kit allows you to receive weather satellite transmissions on the. Vhf band where most of the polar orbiting satellites are located.