Weather Satellite Receiver Kit

Receiving weather satellite imagery directly to your own ground station is great fun.

Weather satellite receiver kit.

Vhf band where most of the polar orbiting satellites are located. This home weather satellite receiver is a system of an fm receiver tunable to noaa weather satellite frequencies 137 to 138 mhz interfaced with a pc. The effect of receiving the satellite telemetry using a narrow band receiver is that the loudest bits of the signal representing the brightest parts of the image are clipped. The orbiting noaa weather satellites require a wider bandwidth receiver though not as wide as that used for fm broadcast signals.

Tracking satellites setting up a receiver waiting for the signals decoding and. The weather man in this case has taken. This receiver kit allows you to receive weather satellite transmissions on the. Clouds darting across the countryside.

A special receiver which efficiently isolates the weather satellite signals for best image quality and sends them to a computer a computer laptop with an audio input and the special free software wxtoimg installed. For just a few hundred dollars you can begin a marvelous hobby for yourself a wonderful educational tool for a school science class or a great project for a space club.