Satdump software & wxsat reception

[Terryl]

I had a rare good pass on M2-3 today, apart from the normal dead bands it look good as far as the weather goes, at least for the next week or so.

 

[Analoguesat]

Ive been away for a few days but Ive set my system up again for the incoming Storm Ashleigh.

And there it is out to the west of Ireland

Meteor 2-3
northbound pass, max elevation 84 degrees to the east
19/10/24 2020utc

msu-msr channel4 equalised.

 

[pontiend]

One from NOAA 18 cropped.It looks like Storm Ashley has arrived.

 

[Terryl]

I had another good pass on the meteors, this one from M2-4, this one is not cropped.



Looks like some good weather for the West coast for now........We need some rain.

 

[Analoguesat]

Met2-4

20/10/24 1350 utc northbound pass, 70 degreee maximum elevation to the east & a fantastic capture of Storm Ashley

 

[Terryl]

Nice shot....Send some rain this way, don't hog it all.

 

[Analoguesat]

Nice shot....Send some rain this way, don't hog it all.

There are billions of tons of the bloody stuff falling all over north western Scotland - help yourself. Little rain here today but its VERY windy- a gust of 42.5mph reached at 1900 bst

 

[Analoguesat]

Ooh I like the double swirl in this image!

25/10/24

Meteor 2-4
1520 utc, only at 28 degree maximum elevation west, northbound pass. This is the entire image, unprocessed, just trimmed for the forum using snipping tool

From top left to bottom right:

A snippet of Canada
Greenland
Iceland
Faroe Islands
UK
a bit of France
Portugal & Spain

 

[pontiend]

I am getting disapointing results latley.I took the antenna down two weeks ago for a garage reroof something is not right.I will be taking it down tomorrow weather permitting to check the connections.

 

[Terryl]

I've been getting crud the last few days, don't have an idea what my be happening.

 

[Analoguesat]

My eastern passes normally arent very good due to hills but this is a nice one. Virtually the whole of central & eastern Europe has been captured

Met 2-3
26/10/24 1920utc maximu elevation 35degrees to the east, northbound pass.

 

[pontiend]

I got a nice clean pass of M2-4 today. 14.22 GMT EL 77.18.Still getting some iffy ones on the NOAAs.I think that most of the problem is low elevation too far east and west plus restricted view of the sky.

 

[Analoguesat]

One from ysterday - for a specific reason. This shows some of the heavy rainfall that has been causing mayhem in parts of Spain

Valencia flooding latest: At least 72 killed in Spanish flash floods as king warns of areas cut off by damage

Rescue teams are working to recover those missing after floodwater knocked down bridges and dragged cars through streets.

www.bbc.co.uk

Spain floods: Dozens dead after torrential rain in Valencia region

Rescue workers are searching for missing people after Spain was hit by severe flooding.

www.bbc.co.uk

29/10/24 1950utc
Met 2-3 northbound pass, 53 degrees maximum elevation to the east

 

[Analoguesat]

Todays view of Spain - cropped off the full image.

Met 2-4
30/10/24 0345utc
southbound pass, 82 degrees maximum elevation,eastern pass

 

[Analoguesat]

Something interesting in Satdump for anyone registered on the Eumesat site. Satdump now has the ability to download & display some of the Eumetsat data via a new setting called archive loader!

This guide works quite well - you will need to log into your account on the Eumetsat portal & get a couple of specific unique key settings.

Opening official products with SatDump | Jacopo's Lair

Learn how to open, decode and process official satellite products from AVHRR, SEVIRI, FCI, OLCI and more using the SatDump software

www.a-centauri.com

However its now my bed time so I'll play further with this tomorrow.

 

[Analoguesat]

I cant figure out the direct processing yet but downloading a MSG 0 degrees longitude file from the Eumetsat data portal & processing it has resulted in this image which is rather nice. This was the midday uk time file.

 

[Terryl]

I've been having some serious noise problems lately, and can't quite locate the problem, I'm thinking along the lines of the PC causing it, so I'm waiting on some shielding material to come in, I see the noise spikes on both satdump and SDR console.

Here is a screen shot from SDR console, the green area is the 137.1 MHz span for the NOAA satellites, the two noise spikes are the problem, they seem to swamp the receiver dongle and degrade the satellite signals, I have an NOAA bandpass filter inline so it's not something further up or down the band.



And I have nothing anywhere around me that could be transmitting on these frequency's.

I'm also looking for some type of USB in-line power supply filter, anyone have any suggestions.

 

[Terryl]

Finally a good pass on NOAA 18.


Un-cropped.

 

[pontiend]

Not many good passes lately.either too low or too far east or west for my setup.Got a good one from M2-4 today 14.37 EL54.24.Hopefully that clear weather to the west is coming our way

 

[Terryl]

I finally had a good pass on M2-3 this morning.


We're hoping to get some rain soon, I need to mow the weeds out in the back 40, too dry to do so now, one spark and my fire insurance goes up.