East Coast Satellite Image

[spongella]

NOAA 15 made a pass overhead around 6:45 am, got this view of East coast from the bird. Nice and clear, clouds are offshore.

 

[fred555]

Can we see picture of your antenna? Does it track or is it stationary?

 

[spongella]

Hi fred555, just using an old Radio Shack discone antenna mounted on the chimney.

 

[fred555]

Excellent because that's exactly what I have. I need to mount it on my workshop soon.
Are you using a dongle or something more exotic?

 

[spongella]

Nothing exotic at all, just a $13 dongle. Using narrowband FM on SDR# and WXtoIMG software with Virtual Cable software to feed audio from SDR# to WXtoIMG.

 

[lfp302]

COOL ! What freq. range do these downlinks use?

 

[fred555]

Nothing exotic at all, just a $13 dongle. Using narrowband FM on SDR# and WXtoIMG software with Virtual Cable software to feed audio from SDR# to WXtoIMG.

I'm good to go because that is my exact setup. I just need to mount the antenna, outside, on my workshop.

 

[spongella]

lfp302,

NOAA 15 - 137.62 MHz
NOAA 18 - 137.9125
NOAA 19 - 137.1

 

[spongella]

fred 555,

Glad you are good to go, have fun getting the images.

 

[mikelib]

To make it more interesting you can track the satellite on N2YO or Satview and see at what elevation you see the signal and hear the audio tones.

I found there are times that I can hear the audio tones before the signal shows up on the water fall.

I also have the Orbitron plugin for SDRsharp so I can have Obitron take care of the Doppler tuning.

Happy Satellite hunting.

 

[mikelib]

Spent time today checking out the best Antenna for NOAA satellites. I have a 2 Meter J-pole on the roof, an in the attic Diamond Discone and an home brew Quadfilar antenna, that I set up in the back yard as needed. So far The Quadfilar works the best.

 

[lfp302]

Thank - you