Weather Satellite Receiver Kit

This home weather satellite receiver is a system of an fm receiver tunable to noaa weather satellite frequencies 137 to 138 mhz interfaced with a pc.

Weather satellite receiver kit. 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. The orbiting noaa weather satellites require a wider bandwidth receiver though not as wide as that used for fm broadcast signals. Recognize these transmissions on the news when you see the time lapse of the. 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.

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 weather man in this case has taken. Tracking satellites setting up a receiver waiting for the signals decoding and. In addition an antenna for the 137 mhz range had to be designed.

Vhf band where most of the polar orbiting satellites are located. Receiving weather satellite imagery directly to your own ground station is great fun.