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Fun and related project. The GOES satellites broadcast a signal at around 1.6GHZ that you can pick up and decode, giving you live images (albeit slightly less r
by lxe 3y ago
Fun and related project. The GOES satellites broadcast a signal at around 1.6GHZ that you can pick up and decode, giving you live images (albeit slightly less resolution than the pro-level GRB broadcast), without using the Internet!
It's a great beginner hobby project requiring ~100-200 dollars of hardware. There's also a large community of enthusiasts and it also opens up a gateway into RF hobby, other RTL-SDR things, ham radio, and other fun engineering time sinks that really helped pass the time during the Pandemic years.
I wrote a small writeup on how to get started a while ago: https://gist.github.com/lxe/c1756ca659c3b78414149a3ea723eae2 https://gist.github.com/lxe/c1756ca659c3b78414149a3ea723eae2
- yobid20 3y ago1.6GHz huh. Isnt half the entire Secret of Skinwalker Ranch show based on that exact frequency "mysterious signals at 1.6GHz" and everytime they see that spike a UAP appears? That's be pretty funny if its GOES bc the government hired travis to lead their secret UAP investigation program after he asked the pentagon if there were any known programs using this range.
- plugger 3y agoTechnically it's closer to 1.7GHz, but most Geostationary birds transmitting on L band are slightly below that. GOES is at 1.68GHz (roughly) while Polar orbiting satellites (think NOAA 15-19) are just above 1.7GHz.
- plugger 3y agothinking on this a bit more I suspect they would have been seeing iridium flares. that network operates from 1610-1626.5MHz and iridium flares are quite visually spectacular.
- w-ll 3y agoI've had conversations with people blitz'd out their mind that where more coherent, intellectual, and factual than what's on History channel these days.