Receive Your Own Satellite Images!!!

[artist]

the http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder. ... signal.htm GeoSat Signal sfotware sounds extremely interesting!

Main page is here - http://www.david-taylor.pwp.blueyonder. ... /wxsat.htm

[artist]

and this tells you have to start receiving your OWN images from the satellites out there! on your pc!!!


Some of you guys that love watching and waiting just might have an interest in this!

Here is some good info to get started -

http://www.hamtronics.com/r139.htm\n
I think ham radio operators can receive these as well with the equipment they have by just adding a certain antennae

[eolian]

I used to mess with this stuff years ago before the internet.

You could hook your MS DOS 5.1 or a TRS radio shack computer to a HF receiver and print out real time weather sat images to a printer. I belive the sats downloaded images in the 40 meter band.

But now with the internet, sat images are easy to view in just seconds. If the new senate weather bill gets passed "i dont remember the number " so that only professional agencies get access to the sat images this stuff may return? lets all hope not...

73`s KC4EPY jim

[artist]

yeah - that wouldn't be good at all!


Check out the software at that site - soundsd like with i if you receive the images you can alos do all the overlays you could wish for to make the images even better than what we are getting now! - Sounds really fascinating!

[Astro_man92]

I used to mess with this stuff years ago before the internet.

You could hook your MS DOS 5.1 or a TRS radio shack computer to a HF receiver and print out real time weather sat images to a printer. I belive the sats downloaded images in the 40 meter band.

But now with the internet, sat images are easy to view in just seconds. If the new senate weather bill gets passed "i dont remember the number " so that only professional agencies get access to the sat images this stuff may return? lets all hope not...

73`s KC4EPY jim

So you are saying you used to put together contraptions that could recieve indirect signals from satillites and print out weather info ???? In your back yard???

or where you a perfessional meteorologist? (did I spell that right because that is a hard word to spell)

[ConvergenceZone]

Do you guys remember the days when accuweather software came out?? I still have the 3 and 1/2 floppies . I remember buying it at the store and being sooooo excited. The only problem was you had to download the images and it cost a certain amount of money each month to get pictures/images which are now free, and the quality isn't near as good as it is now. Wow, it's amazing how far technology has come!! I remember my ISP back then was Prodigy Remember them? Not sure what happened to them.

[eolian]

Yes back in the mid 80`s i had a TRS 80 radio shack computer ran through a RS232 port connected to a yaseu 901DM HF receiver. i could print weather fax real time sat images to a heat sensitive paper printer, or view the images on a B/W television screen.

you could also receive Russian military code texts but you couldnt crack them very easy. To view the US military texts you had to hook a TV with a UHF dial and use that for the receiver...hahaha really this was in the 80`s and all kinds of fun things were possiable with radio. you didnt have 128 or 240 or higher encryption.

[ConvergenceZone]

by the way eolian, welcome to the board!

[eolian]

I joined about a year ago to keep up with Ivan and i visit quite a lot during hurricane season. I am a lurker for the most part.

[Aslkahuna]

I still have my system hooked up to one of my old computers whereby I could get the APT imagery from the Polar Orbitters (137.2-137.8 MHz) and GOES imagery via WEFAX with 1690 MHz. It's still operating.

Steve

[artist]

Astro_man - look into it - sounds pretty cool and if you are able to do it post some images for us!

[eolian]

Its hard to belive anything is still transmitting on hf, you know that is analog where tones vary in pitch to trigger printing. well its fax i guess.
I have a lot of the old radios. A Drake TR4 and some others. the old days had some fun stuff but you cant beat todays technology. I have built several of my own computers and wouldnt go back if i could.

[artist]

True - but what a great experience it would be for some of the younger set on here to do. Wish I had known when I was younger about some of this stuff!

[eolian]

Hey one other funny comment, my TRS computer had 5 1/4 inch floppies and you know what they really were floppy...hahah i even remember 8 inch drives.

man i`m a dinosaur.

[Pileus]

Ahhh, you bring back memories, eolian. I spent many hours decoding
CW and RTTY on HF gov't utility. Plan on picking the hobby up again after I retire in 3 years and upgrading my equipment to all dig. Intriguing hobby.