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- Wed Apr 24, 2019 11:16 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
- Replies: 56
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Re: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
Jaapyse, If you are located in Africa, a 1m grid parabolic antenna such as the ANT-GRID-24DBI may work for Meteosat 11 signal reception. If you are in Europe (particularly Northern European locations), you will likely need a larger parabolic antenna. If there are others in your area receiving the Me...
- Wed Apr 24, 2019 10:53 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
- Replies: 56
- Views: 286972
Re: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
Jaapyse, The tripod was an old, inexpensive camera tripod that was stored in the garage. If you search the Internet for "camera tripod low cost" you will find similar tripods. The Premiertech ANT-GRID-24DBI comes with mounting hardware that will allow for adjustment of elevation and azimuth as well ...
- Sat Feb 23, 2019 4:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
- Replies: 56
- Views: 286972
Re: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
Please review the discussion at the top of p. 3 of this set of posts. If you are using a Premiertek ANT-GRID-24DBI antenna, then simply flipping over the secondary reflector provides significant improvement at 1.69GHz (closely review images of the setup as well). There have been other discussions on...
- Thu Feb 21, 2019 12:03 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
- Replies: 56
- Views: 286972
Re: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
The advantage to extending the signal the distance from the antenna to the PC using a USB2.0 extender cable and locating the SDR at the antenna is that it can usually be done at a comparatively low cost and there is less signal loss before the RF signal to digital conversion and with the right USB 2...
- Mon Feb 18, 2019 11:42 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
- Replies: 56
- Views: 286972
Re: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
More updates from USA-Satcom to the XRIT Decoder software with a new patch from today. The XRIT file manager now provides IR image enhancements for GOES Bands 8 and 13. Here are some examples: Band 13: G16 CH13 Enhancements 02-18-2019.JPG Band 8: G16 Band8 Enhancements 02-18-2019.JPG The IR enhancem...
- Sun Feb 17, 2019 11:11 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
- Replies: 56
- Views: 286972
Re: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
USA- Satcom has just released version 1.4.6985 of the XRIT Decoder software package. New features include: 1) Improved image clarity. 2) An antenna Align Mode feature. 3) And a Viterbi and Eb/No (Energy per Bit to Noise Power Spectral Density Ratio aka normalized SNR) graph over time feature. The im...
- Tue Jan 29, 2019 1:29 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Does SDRuno support plugins ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 31472
Re: Does SDRuno support plugins ?
Vipersan,
That question has been answered many times in this article: https://www.sdrplay.com/community/viewt ... f=5&t=3262
That question has been answered many times in this article: https://www.sdrplay.com/community/viewt ... f=5&t=3262
- Sat Jan 26, 2019 5:29 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Does SDRuno support plugins ?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 31472
Re: Does SDRuno support plugins ?
Hi Vipersan, My understanding is that SDRplay is planning on plugin support for an upcoming version of SDRuno using a new upcoming API; refer to article here: https://www.sdrplay.com/?s=plugin+support . As Mike2459 pointed out, there are a few articles available on the weather satellite image recept...
- Mon Jan 07, 2019 12:09 am
- Forum: New Users' experiences
- Topic: oh.... what have I done?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 13186
Re: oh.... what have I done?
You have purchased an exceptional SDR for your needs. The RSP2 can provide the foundation for what you are looking for and more. For voice/traditional radio reception, try SDRuno, the highly acclaimed application from SDRplay found here: https://www.sdrplay.com/downloads/ . Once you are familiar wit...
- Fri Dec 28, 2018 6:06 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
- Replies: 56
- Views: 286972
Re: HRIT and LRIT Low-Cost System
USA-Satcom has continued improvement efforts on RSP Streamer X, the XRIT Demodulator, XRIT Ingestor, and now added an XRIT File Manager. New features include mapping overlays, improved file management, and improved automated false color capabilities. The software is operable with GOES 15, GOES 16, a...