Saturday, April 18, 2020

1st NOAA APT Image in longtime

Many years ago I use to have a first-class set up to intercept the NOAA weather satellite APT downlinks. But that was then and this is now. With my new arsenal of SDRs (Airspy HF+D/RSPdx, SDR Console, Multipsk and a discone antenna I managed to capture my first APT image in years this morning.

Here is the morning pass of NOAA 18 on 137.9125 MHz. I hope to implement the WXtoImg software package to clean this up and looking at a different antenna for future reception. Gotta start somewhere again.