Weather Satellite Receiver Kit

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.

Weather satellite receiver kit. 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. Receiving weather satellite imagery directly to your own ground station is great fun. Tracking satellites setting up a receiver waiting for the signals decoding and. Recognize these transmissions on the news when you see the time lapse of the.

The orbiting noaa weather satellites require a wider bandwidth receiver though not as wide as that used for fm broadcast signals. Vhf band where most of the polar orbiting satellites are located. 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. In addition an antenna for the 137 mhz range had to be designed.

The weather man in this case has taken. 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.