Recent content by Terryl

Can you post a screen shot of your settings? Note: I am on the west coast of the USA, so there is an 8 hour time difference from the UK.

You also will not hear anything when looking at the Meteor satellites, only the NOAA satellites, and if you change anything in satdump you might have to re-start the program. What brand/make of dongle do you have?

can you tune to a local FM radio station and see if your getting audio there? If you dont get anything that way the something is not setup right.

Can you post a screen shot of your settings.. And this is the first pass on M2-4 with the new antenna, looks like it was a polarization problem. I can almost see my house.

When you download a photo to the site it asks you what size do you want to post it as, click full image. I get the snow at first because the antenna is shaded to the North by a very big hill, on the times when the satellite pass starts from the South I don't get the snow.

I think I figured out my problem with the Meteor satellites, the Discone antenna I'm using does not work too good for a circularly polarized signal. So I built the one in Cirio70's post (#218) and with it just sitting on the deck I got very good pass on NOAA-18 this morning. The signal on...

Sounds like me.

Looks like it might be time to get out the double shielded box's for the electronics, and dust off the tube radios, if a really big one hits us we may be knocked back into the stone age.

OK kids this is weird, I'm now getting almost error free down link data on NOAA-15, I wounder whats going on??? I have changed nothing, and everything looks normal in the spectrum. This is this mornings pass, you can see that the mid pass data errors I have been getting are gone. (see my other...

Wow, that was a tough read.....I still can't quite get a wrap around the fact that a magnetic field such as the one in the Sun can split and have two different polarity pole reversals, one for the North and then one for the South, I'm in the old thinking of it happening at the same time.

Nice pass, what brand/type/make of antenna are you using? Post a photo if you have a chance. I'm thinking of trying out an A/B relay (high frequency RF type with "N" connectors on it) and using the discone for other bands, then switch to a new 137 MHz antenna for satellite, I'd use the old 137...

Well it came close, almost had to go dig out the lead underwear....Green line almost hit the dotted line. https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/goes-proton-flux

An almost perfect shot from NOAA-18 this afternoon.

You would need to know the current magnetic declination for your location to use magnetic South, (or North) if a compass is all you have then you would need to know that.

Well it may be true if your closest South satellite is very close to due South, but not all reading this thread would have a satellite close to South from their location, as in my case the closest Southerly satellite for me is 121W, (that I can use) but that puts an error of almost 2 degrees...