The SaveItForParts guy inspired me to get SDR for APT, never knew that was even possible. Been watching your vids of LRPT and HRPT and needing to get a dish cause that is bs cool. Now you have gone blown my mind, this is nonsense. I can get my own sat images of the sun from my own backyard!? GTFOOH! Dish acquisition this week.
just keep in mind the satellites you get depend on where you are located, some like PROBA-2 only transmit over one particular ground station (in this case Belgium)
Me too i got my free 3 m dish for all this as well watched sace fir parts guy and this fellow amazing work from both of them ,it might take me a while but i will do it too
@@dereksgc cheers for that, that is some real crucial information you just gave me. I'm going to look more into what is available in my area. Being located near Perth, Western Australia and are the most isolated capital city in the world, I'm sure we would have some interesting and unique downlinks. A lot of interesting space science happens out here. And thanks for your channel bro
@@drunkonacid you might consider joining my Discord server, there already are some people from WA, one satellite you might be able to pick up is FengYun-3C, which doesn't even need a large dish and transmits snippets of true color imagery
I was hoping to get NOAA-15 and NOAA-18 from the middle of indiana with eclipse information on the vhf transmissions, but they went over head too early for me. Glad to see someone else tried to get data too.
@dereksgc though the subjects are not really my general field of interest, I am just a curious guy and I stumbled upon this video of yours. Loved it and what and how you do it. Went to like the video as I tend to do when I appreciate content,saw how low the likes were even though you do have quite a bit of subscribers. Tht just doesn't sit right with me. So I went to like each of your uploads and subscribed. Even went on to hang on to most videos as they were rather good in my view (pun intended) love it in all ways and the sincerity is truly appreciated. Will open the "all video's" on autoplay so you'll get full views as I believe it might help with the algorithm. Love the vibe and info and just general curiosity. Best of luck to you
Great job my friend ! very impressed with your work i didn't know there were so many satellites you could pick up ,i read some jut transmit when close to their ground station be interested in what can be picked up depending where you live we know about the noaas and meteors and geos but any thing else most of us a clueless there are a lot of satellites but the ones that apart from mentioned we would not have an idea what to look for if you do a video on satellites worth looking for would be great i live in Melbourne Australia
You could try tying making the counterweight lighter and then tie it with some rope to hold the dish at some elevation that you control by pulling or feeding the rope. This is a very cool dish, I am repurposing a Ku band dish for some radio experiments too, so ill steal the counterweight idea :)
Also seeing your work on the big dish are you planning on making it motorised ? i know its all money and thus hard if you don't have it but this one really could do with at least an elevation control and make your hobby easier ...its on my mind as well i was given 2 drive way dc geared Gate openers they are very strong and fast enough for all this work if u ever come across them or similar idea ,i am sure you have been thinking about it,,,,any case watch your head that dish is a killer ; 0 ) BTW an idea on the cheap you could try if you can get your hands on cord less drills and you use a long threaded bolt in the drill and 2 nuts one on the dish other on the mount as your drill turns it should move your dish ...these drills are dc you should be able to control them first at least by just switching and move onto PC control , i would look for second hand where the batteries are useless and no one wants it just hook a power supply up to it ,the Drill would have to be bracket mounted on the dish mount once you want it permanent or its going to turn also .
Off the hat, Derek! Comparing it with the video short on the ESA channel from the same sat I suspect that either ESA mirrored it or could it be the decoding software is missing some post processing/interpretation of data?
The decoder I used (SatDump) basically only outputs the raw frames, so the images are oriented in whatever way the satellite was currently facing. ESA properly processes the data and de-rotates it presumably with the Sun's north pole always facing up
In your hardware setup you mentioned a ham it down downconverter, is it mandatory to capture this type of signal? Does the sawbird+goes alone do the job? Thank you for this amazing video btw.
this is a modified sawbird+goes with a filter for the 2.2 GHz band, a downconverter is not needed if your SDR can receive 2.2 GHz, like the HackRF, but all RTL-based SDRs (RTL-SDR, NESDR) need a converter, it does not have to be the ham it down, there are other cheaper options such as MMDS converters if you can acquire one that works for the band you want
@@dereksgc i was checking about a certain mmds downconverter from AliExpress but it says : 2.2-2.4GHz 1998MHz I was wandering since nooelec and RTL-SDR have a range up to 1750mhz can you still use that particular downconverter because it says 1998Mhz? Again, thank you for making these videos. Thanks to you I've managed so far to capture from noaa apt to noaa& meteor LRIT-HRIT even feng-yun ELEKTRO-L3 the same one you captured, keep it up .
@@axiomV 1998 MHz is the local oscillator frequency, or "LO" of the converter the converter mixes the input RF signal with this, so the output = input - LO This means that if you receive a signal at 2250 MHz; 2250 - 1998 = 252 MHz which an RTL-SDR can receive some converters work in reverse but in this case 1998 MHz means the incoming radio signals get shifted down by 1998 MHz
Hi Derek, i really love you vivid enthusiasm of every video.We share the same hobby, im a radioham since 1990, i work both QO-100 narrow band and wide band.I use a 180cm and 120cm pf dishes wich i have permanently pointed to QO-100. Another 180cm dish is automatically moved by a 0,2º res Spid HR rotor controller (recomended) ,wich i builded up for tracking the broadcasted live video from ISS (S band ) , but never finished this project...you motivated me and i will start where i left it : Buiding the S band Helix antenna... Keep doing the great job and get your Hamradio licence in use....it would be great to have a contact with you ... Tom, EA6WQ / KE0KQT
