points by rustyhancock 1 day ago | 0 comments
I wonder how hard it'll be to capture some of these images yourself.
NOAA decommissioned it's last LRPT/APT capable satillites.
Russia has a couple open access 137MHz sats available Meteor M2-3 and M2-4 I believe they have become flakey with age, damage and other issues.
Those you could stand in your garden with a simple vdipole antenna and a cheap SDR to capture images.
[–] nightjar 1 day ago
[–] rustyhancock 1 day ago
That's a really nice write up and the SDR looks quite nice for the price.
It brings back memories one of the things that made radio waves feel "real" to me was a similar setup where we raised and lowered the antenna parallel to the ground and saw the reflections strengthen the received signal or make it nearly vanish.
https://gdamdam.github.io/meteor-satellite-reception/meteor-...