Saveitforparts: Receiving Military DMSP Satellite Data with a Hacked TV Dish
Over on the saveitforparts YouTube channel, Gabe has uploaded a video showing how he uses a hacked TV satellite dish to receive satellite weather data from Defense Meteoroloogical Satellite Program...
View ArticleSaveitforparts: Listening in on Russian Soldiers Hijacking US Military...
Over on the saveitforparts YouTube channel, Gabe has uploaded a video showing how he uses WebSDR streams to show how Russians, including Russian soldiers, are using old US Military satellites for...
View ArticleA 3D Printed V-Dipole Guide for the RTL-SDR Blog Dipole Kit
Thank you to Denis for submitting his 3D printable V-dipole guide for our RTL-SDR Blog Dipole Antenna set. The guide holes the dipole at a 120-degree V-shape angle, which is ideal for receiving...
View ArticleSaveitforparts: Snooping on the SatGus Selfie Satellite
SatGus is a recently launched cubesat owned by CrunchLabs/Mark Rober, an extremely popular science and engineering YouTuber. The satellite is designed to take selfies of CrunchLabs customers' own...
View ArticleIEEE Spectrum Article on Discovery Dish
Electrical engineering magazine IEEE Spectrum has recently posted an article about our Discovery Dish product, which was successfully crowd-funded on CrowdSupply and delivered to initial backers early...
View ArticleUsing our RTL-SDR Blog Dipole as a V-Dipole for Receiving Weather Satellites
With our RTL-SDR Blog dipole antenna set, it is possible to use it in a "V-dipole" configuration to receive polar-orbiting weather satellites such as NOAA and Meteor at 137 MHz. More information on...
View ArticleGOES-19 Completes Transition to GOES-EAST Replacing GOES-16
NOAA GOES satellites are a popular way to receive beautiful full-disk weather images of the Earth using an RTL-SDR, antenna hardware such as the Discovery Dish, and software such as SatDump. The...
View ArticleReceiving Elektro-L3 LRIT Weather Satellite Images with an 11-Turn Helix...
Thank you to RTL-SDR.COM reader Meti for submitting his blog post showcasing how he successfully received weather satellite images from the geostationary Elektro-L3 satellite. Impressively, Meti...
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