Satdump software & wxsat reception

[Terryl]

All my passes this week have been junk or at night.

 

[pontiend]

I caught the early Meteor 2-3 pass this morning It was a high one straight over the top. As usual I get interference to the north on high passes My antenna is low down. Not cropped
M 2-3 10.00 EL 86.71

 

[Terryl]

Wow almost a full week before I finally get a good download, this one from this morning, we also have some good weather for the week, unlike the poor folks back east, some of them have got at least 4 feet of snow.

Un-cropped.


You can also see that we have a good snow pack, ( the white stuff to the left of my place) the ski resorts are happy.

 

[pontiend]

A decent Meteor 2-3 pass this morning.I am almost in the clear, cloudy bright showers forcast. Usual crap to the north cropped.
M2-3 10.40 EL 51.86

 

[Terryl]

WOW a great pass on M2-4 today, one of the best so far, un-cropped and almost error free. The rest are at night so nothing on them.

 

[Terryl]

And another great MSA pass on M2-4 this afternoon, looks like rain setup for this week, the ski resorts will be happy.

 

[pontiend]

Nice one terryl. Not much doing here,all low or very wide.Maybe today will be better.Not holding my breath though.

 

[Terryl]

I'm surprised that one went over without any errors, I wish I had watched to go over , it must have gone directly over my place but by the photo it looks like it was further West.

 

[pontiend]

Two decent passes today.This one was a bit noisy,it's nice to be in the clear though.Top cropped
M 2-4 14:00 EL86.50

 

[pontiend]

There was big yellow UFO in the sky today.

 

[Terryl]

Had one here yesterday, I almost had to get the shorts out of storage, it was a balmy 68 degrees F, (20 degrees C at your side of the pond) now we are looking at rain all next week.

 

[Terryl]

And another very nice pass this afternoon from M2-4, again I was not watching it go over and also didn't see this one till so late.

Untouched.

 

[Analoguesat]

Ah the pic Ive been waiting for. Its a nice sunny day here in the UK & the snow lyng on the higher ground is clearly visible on this capture

17/2/26 0922utc Meteor M2-3 southbound pass 45 degree maxium elevation to my east



Roughly south to north in the area south of Edinburgh

Lake District
Pennines
Southern Uplands
Cheviots
Lammermuirs / Pentlands

 

[pontiend]

No good passes aggain today.This is the best one.Top cropped.
I of course am under the cloud.Sleet and snow forcast.
M 2-4 14:15 EL75.63.

 

[Terryl]

Here is a good pass on M2-3 this morning.
And trying out a new band pass filter with a built in LNA called a SAWbird+noaa from NOOelec, worked fine, cut out some of the low end and high end noise, plus gave me about 20 dB more gain.

Here is the latest from M2-3 unedited.



And here is the last pass on M2-3 with the new filter.



Nice and clean.

 

[pontiend]

I always get interference at the top of high passes.This is a bit much though.It looks like something is wrong,Maybe water in my cable .the next pass will tell me.Top chopped
Meteor 2-3 10:20 EL66.57.

 

[pontiend]

Nope not a cable problem M 2-4 scannned ok it must be something else.I hope that it is not a satellite problem.Top cropped.
M 2-4 13:50 EL76.83.

 

[Terryl]

I had the same download this morning on M2-3, I also hope it's not a problem with that bird.

 

[pontiend]

A better pass from M 2-3 this morning.Although a lot more interfence bars than I would expect from a high pass straigh over the top.Top Cropped.
M 2.39:52 EL84.46

 

[Terryl]

Ok, is there a problem with the Meteor sat's?

Here is yesterdays download from M2-4.


And here is today's pass on the same bird.