Another use for your radio

[Blinky]

In case you did not realise, most reasonably modern amateur radio transcievers are capable of reasonable results when looking at weather satellites. For this one I used my Yaesu FT847.

My antenna is only about 4 metres high, just above the gutter of the house and lashed to a pole with electrical insulation tape as I did not have a proper bracket handy.

Click on the images to view in a larger size.



I have cropped out the noise at beginning and end. This was NOAA 19 a couple of days ago. The images are received in various shades of grey and the software adds colour to them.



Software used for this one was WXtoImg (http://www.wxtoimg.com) but I have also been trying APT Decoder (http://www.poes-weather.com) recently.

[Clontarf[X]]

Very cool.

[Bonez]

Very good indeed. I have just got back on the air after taking a bit of a break. Satellites are something that interest me a lot and I am researching about it how, will start with something nice and easy like an FM repeater. Do Know of any birds that pass over VK6 with a 2m uplink and 70cm downlink?

At the moment all I've got is a 2m rig and a scanner, so if it was a low orbit bird then I may have some luck.

Cheers
Bonez

[Blinky]

If you look at the satellite status page from AMSAT (http://www.amsat.org/amsat-new/satellites/status.php) it will
tell you which satellite is still active and the frequencies it uses. AO-51, SO-50 and ISS, when activated, are probably the most used that fit your request. Not that there's a lot of activity on them. AO-27 also shows as still active but I have never listened for it.

The weather satellites transmit on 137.1 137.5 137.62 137.9125 depending on which satellite it is. Easily copied on a scanner although for better results a wider bandwidth is better. The picture I showed above was still copied with a narrow bandwidth FM transciever with similar bandwidth to your scanner most likely.

[slipknot]

In case you did not realise, most reasonably modern amateur radio transcievers are capable of reasonable results when looking at weather satellites. For this one I used my Yaesu FT847.

My antenna is only about 4 metres high, just above the gutter of the house and lashed to a pole with electrical insulation tape as I did not have a proper bracket handy.

Click on the images to view in a larger size.



I have cropped out the noise at beginning and end. This was NOAA 19 a couple of days ago. The images are received in various shades of grey and the software adds colour to them.



Software used for this one was WXtoImg (http://www.wxtoimg.com) but I have also been trying APT Decoder (http://www.poes-weather.com) recently.

wow, you got it just perfect too, anyone who does weather satelite photo recieving would know that if you have just a plain antenna, its hard to get a full pic without the annoying lines through the middle from temopory loss of signal.