Noaa Weather Satellite Antenna

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Noaa weather satellite antenna. 137 mhz published by crazy engineer on december 10 2018 december 10 2018. Most antenna designs for polar orbiting weather spacecraft are based on circularly polarized turnstile or qfh designs. Figure 2 the four dipoles that make up the double cross antenna prototype. Dscovr noaa s first operational satellite in deep space orbits a million miles from earth in order to provide early warnings of potentially harmful space weather.

4 18 3 16 lengths of 3 16 diameter aluminum rods. 1 18 3 16 length of number 12 wire. Over on his blog adam 9a4qv seller of various rtl sdr related goods including the lna4all has just made a post detailing a build of a high performance super simple noaa meteor m2 weather satellite antenna. 1 6 x 6 piece of aluminum.

This makes it almost ideal for receiving signals from polar orbiting weather satellites. Building a basic 162 5 mhz ground plane antenna to improve noaa weather radio reception. This instructable covers everything you ll need to get started in being able to receive the apt automatic picture transmission signals from the noaa satellites noaa 15 18 and 19 flying overhead and can be a foundation for listening to other s. An easy to build antenna for ground reception of noaa weather or amateur satellite signals.

Figure fig 2 shows one quadrifilar helix antennas designed for 137 mhz apt reception this antenna in the photo fig 2 is the one that i use to receive noaa satellites here in belgium. As a first thing i did search on the internet for a suitable antenna for noaa satellite frequencies 137 100 mhz 137 9125 mhz. Double cross antenna for noaa meteor weather satellite. Gerald martes kd6jdj figure 1 ideal radiation pattern for a ground based antenna for reception of noaa weather satellite images.

I am not much fond of antenna and rf projects but i got involved with my good friend manideep when he was building this project. Dilshan r jayakody talks about reception of noaa weather satellite data. 8 number 4 machine screws star washers and nuts. Recently i got an interest to experiment with noaa weather satellite reception techniques.

Figure 3 the free space three. Here is a summary of the build and the relevant resources so.