Weather Satellite Receiver Kit

Clouds darting across the countryside.

Weather satellite receiver kit.

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. 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. Recognize these transmissions on the news when you see the time lapse of the. This receiver kit allows you to receive weather satellite transmissions on the.

The orbiting noaa weather satellites require a wider bandwidth receiver though not as wide as that used for fm broadcast signals. In addition an antenna for the 137 mhz range had to be designed. Receiving weather satellite imagery directly to your own ground station is great fun. All that is needed is a little know how and a softrock sdr software defined radio receiver kit that interfaces with some open source software to generate satellite weather images like the.

The weather man in this case has taken. 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.