Intro to SDR and RF Signal Analysis

Re:Intro to SDR and RF Signal Analysis by lowleveldrone on Monday June 19, 2017 @08:37AM (#14586416)

For what it's worth, you can get very good reception from NOAA satellites using a much simpler antenna: http://www.rtl-sdr.com/simple-noaameteor-weather-satellite-a...

Said from experience of having built something more complicated and having it perform worse than two pieces of copper tubing stuck in a piece of scrap plastic.

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Re:Intro to SDR and RF Signal Analysis by platz on Monday June 19, 2017 @12:19PM (#14588084)

I've been dabbling with RF, but I don't quite understanding the appeal of downloading NOAA sat images. It is simply 'hello world' for receiving sat downlinks?

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Re:Intro to SDR and RF Signal Analysis by lowleveldrone on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @10:28AM (#14604075)

For me it's a "hello world" for experimenting with building VHF antennas. It's nice, because they are on a schedule that you can plan around and more interesting than listening to the local dispatch systems.

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