Radio/SDR Megathread (aka all your RF belong to us) BUMP for ADS-B

[Aide33]

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I made myself a homemade 2.14m dipole antenna yesterday and a weather satellite called NOAA-19 passed my house 15 minutes ago.
with some coax cable and an SDR dongle I've managed to capture some signals from it and decode them with WXtoImage.

here's some pics:

captured image:

false colour:

false colour2:

infrared:

multi-spectral brown townysis:

sea temperature:

thermal:

thunder shown:


I'll get some pics of my setup later today

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[HerpaDerp]

[Snaked_Snake]

i do this too much

[mod-man]

man thats cool af. i love stuff like this lol. cant wait for more!!

[SmogonBoogler]

My new avatar.

[Aide33]

man thats cool af. i love stuff like this lol. cant wait for more!!

yeah I'm gonna be building an omnidirectional antenna and a satellite dish soon for higher gain

[mod-man]

yeah I'm gonna be building an omnidirectional antenna and a satellite dish soon for higher gain

can u post pics? ive never tried this before and it sounds/looks hella cool

[crunk²]

kickass, can we get pics of the antenna itself

[Aide33]

sdr dongle itself:

the mcx to coax cable that I bought on amazon:

cable going out the window:

the antenna is a pretty standard T shaped dipole 2.14m across to receive on 137.1mHz
this antenna is temporary t'ill I build one with higher gain

splitter/transformer:

and the copper cables split on to the each of the structural pieces of wood:


the software used: SDR# and WXtoImage

[Lego lad]

OP is gonna hack the world

[Mr Queeba]

OP is an alien, everyone run!

Actually, this is pretty cool.

[carolcat]

that's pretty sweet yo. can't wait to see how you'll improve this later on.

[Aide33]

that's pretty sweet yo. can't wait to see how you'll improve this later on.

the master plan behind this is I'm gonna make my own software and attach it to a tilt/pan assembly so I don't have to rotate the antenna as the sat passes

oh and NOAA-18 is about to come over the horizon expect more stuff

[Maxwell.]

wait, did you receive SSTV signals?

[Aide33]

wait, did you receive SSTV signals?

not SSTV

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Picture_Transmission