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You can also get with some more work the much higher resolution HIRT images from the GOES sats. It's kind or fun to mess with. I used it as an excuse to mess
by btashton 6y ago
You can also get with some more work the much higher resolution HIRT images from the GOES sats. It's kind or fun to mess with. I used it as an excuse to mess with offloading the error correction to an FPGA, which was fun but also totally unnecessary.
https://pietern.github.io/goestools/guides/minimal_receiver.html https://pietern.github.io/goestools/guides/minimal_receiver....
- jcims 6y agoThat’s super tempting, those pics are gorgeous.
- westpfelia 6y agoI'm looking to get into this sort of stuff for fun, do you have a resource where you started to learn all about it from? Also would you say that using the gear that was specified in OP's post you could achieve the same results you got? Thanks
- dessant 6y agoA crash course on hacking satellites: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072829 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24072829
- gardenfelder 6y agoThe parabolic grid antenna in that link does not appear to be available
- xconverge 6y agoDo you happen to be located in CA?
- aseidl 6y agoYou can get by with one designed for 2.4GHz wifi if those are easier to acquire. They were < $50 on Amazon when I did my build a year or so ago. Just have to flatten the front a bit and push it out by about an inch. I used a short piece of pvc pipe and some zipties.
- xconverge 6y agoIf anyone in the bay area is interested in this. I will give you my grid antenna and Nooelec goes+ LNA!
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