Receiving and Decoding Russian Meteor-M2 satellite images in real time

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95 points·wolframio··6 comments

I've been using Software Defined Radios for the better part of 5 years now and it's amazing the types of things you can receive with them.

The article here discusses a cheap (but slightly modified) SDR, but if you step up ever-so-slightly in price to something like an AirSpy Mini, the difference in signal quality is astonishing.

Do you have any pointers/references for getting started with Software Defined Radios? i.e. the state of the art software, hardware, and common hobbyist applications? Any open source communities?

Surely.

https://www.rtl-sdr.com/ is a great site for updates on new hardware and software.

Most commonly, I use my SDR for: - Listening to ham (amateur) bands - Receiving NOAA/Meteor satellite images - Airplane tracking

There are quite a few other use cases, which I've outlined in several talks that I've presented at conferences over the years; https://github.com/tomswartz07/CPOSC2017/blob/master/Softwar...

Additionally, to further point out, there's a giant, vibrant open source community around the SDR software.

SoapySDR/Pothos do great work, as well as the fine guy behind GQRX, the open-source SDR gui.

Pity the complete PDF tutorial supposedly here http://wikisend.com/download/407986/Recieving-Meteor-M-N2-in... is missing

Looks like it's also located here: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Recieving...

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