NOAA-18 reception with Funcube Dongle and Gqrx SDR

Reception of NOAA-18 polar orbiting weather satellite using the Funcube Dongle, an Arrow antenna and gqrx 1.9.197 SDR. The satellite is very strong, already at low elevations the SNR is better than 20dB. At the time of closest approach the signal is almost 40dB over the noise.

Gqrx is an experimental software defined radio receiver for Linux powered by GNU Radio and Qt, see http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gnu-radio/gqrx-sdr

For a complete tutorial about receiving NOAA APT transmission and decoding the APT data, see http://www.oz9aec.net/index.php/gnu-radio/gnu-radio-blog/451-howto-receive-an...

Video recorded by Alexandru Csete OZ9AEC.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• gqrx
• software
• defined
• radio
• receiver
• sdr
• gnuradio
• c++
• qt
• funcube
• dongle
• NOAA-18
• weather
• amateur
• satellite
• space
• co
• ham

[nqzdepofltr]

Oddly, WXtoIMG claims this is noaa 19

[oz9aec]

@nqzdepofltr As far as I know wxtoimg uses orbit info to figure out which satellite it is, so you have to set the correct date, time and location.

[Patrick12236]

can you send me the Development files?

or can you recommend me a another program?

[oz9aec]

@Patrick12236 I suggest you read the video description first, maybe you can find it then ;-)

[Patrick12236]

Nice Receive of the Noaa Satellite! :)

I can't install the gqrx or another programm and have no idea what can i do..

Can you help me?

I use Ubuntu 11.04

Thanks!

[oz9aec]

@Patrick12236 Gqrx has not yet been released for public use, it's still under development.

[Patrick12236]

@oz9aec oh Sorry.

But how do I install GNU Radio?

I do not understand the readme so completely

[Patrick12236]

@oz9aec  ah okay /: