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Re:MTG-I2 First Images by rustyhancock on Friday November 06, 2026 @11:38AM (#50394681)
I wonder how hard it'll be to capture some of these images yourself.

NOAA decommissioned it's last LRPT/APT capable satillites.

Russia has a couple open access 137MHz sats available Meteor M2-3 and M2-4 I believe they have become flakey with age, damage and other issues.

Those you could stand in your garden with a simple vdipole antenna and a cheap SDR to capture images.

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Re:MTG-I2 First Images by nightjar on Friday November 06, 2026 @01:07PM (#50395986)
It seems like someone did just that recently! They used an SDRplay rather than a cheap RTL-SDR but the antenna is simple.

https://gdamdam.github.io/meteor-satellite-reception/meteor-...

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Re:MTG-I2 First Images by rustyhancock on Friday November 06, 2026 @03:29PM (#50398017)
That's a really nice write up and the SDR looks quite nice for the price.

It brings back memories one of the things that made radio waves feel "real" to me was a similar setup where we raised and lowered the antenna parallel to the ground and saw the reflections strengthen the received signal or make it nearly vanish.

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