ARLA/CLUSTER: Receber imagens meteorologicas atravès do FUNcube Dongle

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Weather sat pics with FUNcube Dongle

Herbert DL4SDR has used his AMSAT-UK FUNcube Dongle VHF/UHF software
defined radio to receive a weather satellite picture in the 136-138
MHz band.

On the FUNcube Yahoo Group he writes:
Today [August 19] I received a picture from NOAA 15 WX satellite with
simple "stuff"

FUNcube Dongle (FCD) and a VHF/UHF Ground Plane Antenna up 12 meters
above Ground 200 meters above sealevel. 15 meter coax cable WITHOUT
pre-amplifier !

Hardware:
FCDpro with newest Firmware V18.i
PC WinXP with onboard Graphics-Chip
Software:
FCD-DF
Doppler-DF
SpectraVue
wxtoimage

Nice to see what's possible with simple "stuff" :))

Regards from Germany

Herbert DL4SDR

In a follow up email he said he had also used a Ground Plane Antenna
in the attic as well as one outside to receive the picture. He says he
was surprised to get this good quality.

The FUNcube Dongle was developed as part of the educational outreach
for AMSAT-UK FUNcube satellite project. Although it was designed to
enable school students to receive the satellite beacon the wide
frequency coverage of 64 - 1700MHz has meant that it can be used for
many other applications.

The AMSAT-UK FUNcude Dongle SDR is sold by Martin Lynch & Sons (ML&S) at
http://tinyurl.com/MartinLynchFCD

FUNcube Yahoo Group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FUNcube