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An Alternative NOAA Weather Satellite Tutorial using RTL_FM and WxToImg

#radio #satellite | The RTL-SDR software defined radio is often used to receive signals from NOAA APT weather satellites. Once decoded these signals produce a freshly captured image of the earth over your current location. We have a simple tutorial on setting this up here. However, recently Marco Johansson wrote into RTL-SDR.com to explain an alternative method to the one described in our tutorial. His method uses rtl_fm as the receiver instead of the GUI based software SDR# and uses several other pieces of software to automate the whole process. Marco believes that his method may be useful for some people and his tutorial is presented below.

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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images

#radio #satellite | ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS TUTORIAL IS OUTDATED.*** Currently, we recommend using the SatDump software instead. A modern tutorial for SatDump can be found at https://www.a-centauri.com/articoli/noaa-poes-satellites-reception. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Everyday multiple NOAA weather satellites pass above you. Each NOAA weather satellite broadcasts an Automatic Picture Transmission (APT) signal, which contains a live weather image of your area. The RTL-SDR dongle combined with a good antenna, SDRSharp and a decoding program can be used to download and display these live images several times a day. This tutorial will show you how to set up a NOAA weather satellite receiving station, which will allow

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RTL-SDR Tutorial: Receiving Meteor-M N2 LRPT Weather Satellite Images with an RTL-SDR

#radio #satellite | ***************************************************** Update 29 June 2023 **************************************************** With the launch of Meteor M2-3, the loss of all prior Meteor M satellites and the release of new software, this tutorial is now outdated. We will eventually update this tutorial, but for now we will reference this post which has a brief high level overview of how to receive and decode images from the Meteor M2-3. The current best tutorial for receiving Meteor M2-3 is available from Happysat at https://github.com/happysat/Setup-Meteor-M-N2-3-with-LRPT-Decoder-and-MeteorGIS/blob/main/README.md ***************************************************** Update 02 August 2019: Please use Happysats tutorial which is available here. Happysats tutorial will work for Meteor M-N2-1 and Meteor M-N2-2.

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