Meteor-M N2 is in polar orbit, so you may need a fancy antenna to receive MSG, which is in geostationary orbit (don't quote me on this, but this reddit user has

Meteor-M N2 is in polar orbit, so you may need a fancy antenna to receive MSG, which is in geostationary orbit (don't quote me on this, but this reddit user has the same suspicion https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/23pquc/can_you_receive_geostationary_weather_sattelites/ch1roen https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/23pquc/can_you_rece...). But EUMETSAT (contractor of MSG-4) has EUMETcast for distributing the images: http://satsignal.eu/wxsat/atovs/index.html http://satsignal.eu/wxsat/atovs/index.html That works over DVB though, which would be disappointing for you since you wanna talk to satellites. There is a library for decoding the proprietary formats: https://sourceforge.net/p/meteosatlib/wiki/Home/ https://sourceforge.net/p/meteosatlib/wiki/Home/ The linked Reddit thread has this very nice answer: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/23pquc/can_you_receive_geostationary_weather_sattelites/cgzy6te https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR/comments/23pquc/can_you_rece...