Satdump software & wxsat reception

[Terryl]

Ive had my system turned off through all the ongoing bad weather. I may turn it back on at the weekend as the weather is looking better.

I don't worry about bad weather or power surges, all my equipment is on UPS systems, and have equipment insurance with the UPS equipment suppliers, if anything gets through the UPS and damages the attached equipment I get new stuff for free.

 

[Analoguesat]

Not bad weather like that - its been totally overcast, wet & windy the last 10 days or so across much of the UK so I decided it just wasnt worth running the system.

 

[Terryl]

Ahhhh, man.....I wish it was wet here, after some very nice temperatures the last week it's starting to heat up again.

We had a really big fire about a mile away from the place a couple of weeks ago, we need some rain, I was on standby evacuation orders, I had all the hoses out and ready.

This didn't come over the top of that hill in the background, the fire bombers took care of most of it.

 

[Analoguesat]

Meteor M2-3
30/8/24 1130utc
southbound pass, 28 degrees elevation west


No Uputronics amp/filter on this one - Ive had it disconnected so I can look at other frequencies. As received, no post processing

 

[Analoguesat]

Meteor M2-4
30/8/24 1345utc
northbound pass 63 degrees elevation, no amp/filter. As received apart from rotating the image as it was upside down.

 

[Terryl]

Finally after many days of too many satellites in one location a good RGB pass on M2-4.

 

[pontiend]

A very good scan from M2-4 at 14.19 utc this afternoon EL76.98.
It looks to be over the top and we are under the cloud as usual.

 

[pontiend]

It looks like two good passes today M2-3 9.56 utc EL 86.96 below.Not as much cloud but I am under it.
M2-4 at 13.57utc EL 76.48 .Nothing near it.I do not crop any of the Meteor images

 

[Terryl]

Anyone have this TLE error today? (circled in red)

 

[pontiend]

I don't have that Terryl.

 

[pontiend]

This is the M2-4 13.57utc pass EL76.48.nice and sunny for a change after4pm GMT

 

[Terryl]

I don't have that Terryl.
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Take a look at the last TLE update time and date, it's almost a month out of date, (8-12-24) both yours and mine are set to update every day, and when I tried to manually update I get that error.

 

[pontiend]

Yes I get the same error warning if I update manually I had the same problem with WXTOIMG keplars not updating.
That was becuase Celestrak changed from .com to .org.The address that Satdump uses is a little different to the one that WXTOIMG uses.
I don't know if that has anything to do with the problem

 

[Terryl]

I tried to look at that address directly, it's not a valid CATNR # according to Celestrak.

 

[pontiend]

I changed to the Nightly Version yesterday TLE updater looks to be updating ok.
The program seems to be working alright.
M2-4 14.11 utc EL 85.63 scan below.

 

[Terryl]

Had a very good pass on M2-4 today, but all the NOAA satellites are co-located and I'm getting junk from them.

 

[Analoguesat]

Having finally got v1.2.1 to work for me Ive got the line healing switched on and this cracking image came out today

Met 2-4 1600 utc northbound pass 16 degrees max elevation to the west



Land masses top left to bottom tight:

Canada
Greenland
Iceland
Ireland
Spain

 

[Analoguesat]

Met 2-4 1420utc Northbound pass 77degrees max elevation to the west



The thick cloud over Germany & heading out to the east is Storm Boris that has been causing severe flooding & major chaos in several countries

 

[Analoguesat]

Met 2-3 19/9/24 1025utc

southbound pass 68 degree pass to the west Probably the best M2-3 pass Ive ever had. Only problem Im having with sat dump now is the auto map generation has a bug in it so its putting fake landmass outlines on the map...

Thick mist over the Scottish Borders & down the east coast.

 

[pontiend]

I get that if I forget to set the satellite in config in Schedule and config. The default is Noaa 15.