Recent content by Terryl

A nice pass this morning on NOAA-19. Still having mid pass noise problems, still looking.

Well I know how to set it for the NOAA and Meteor satellites on the 137 MHz band, but there is no settings that I can see for the 1700 MHz band.

I'm getting a very noise free pass on NOAA-19 right now with tons of signal, so I tried the 1700 GHz bands, but I get an error of ""SPS is invalid, Must be above 1"" when I use the NOAA HRPT settings and I see no way to fix or set that.

Here is an example of the NOAA satellites over riding the signals from the Meteor satellites. Meteor 2-3 is almost set to go overhead, but so is NOAA-18 and 19, their signals are much stronger then the Meteors, however with the two satellites almost on the same frequency there is a conflict and...

I have even shut down anything that may make an RF signal, (or something like one) I shut down the LAN system/router/modem/computers (except one with satdump running on it) and all my ham gear, I still get those annoying spikes.

Maybe it's because my antenna is very wide band (50 to 3000 MHz) I can maybe fix up the antenna I had when I first started this stuff, a high wind caused some major damage to it,(blew the mast down) that's when I got the discone. I get great signals on the NOAA satellites, but not on the...

And a noise floor of -100 dBm with SDR console, so something is causing a noise problem using the satdump program. Here is a comparison. 137.1 MHZ with SDR console. And what I get with satdump, same settings on both programs.

Same settings and using the new SAWbird LNA and filter I have a noise floor of -66 dBm using SatDump.

I wish there was a SatDump forum to post possible bugs in the program, I have some strange noise problems that show up when running satdump, the spikes are only there when using that program, using SDR console or SDR++ they are not there. For troubleshooting info one of the engineers at...

WOW I almost got a full pass on M2-3 this morning. Still have noise problems.

I recommend two web sites to help you get focused in on Astra 28.2 at your location. This one will tell you the correct size dish for your location, just click on your location and it will give you a marker...https://satbeams.com/footprints?norad=39285 This one will give pointing information...

OK, after many many tweaking's of the settings I got something from Meteor 2-4 on the last pass, but it looks like I do need an LNA as the signal was very weak, will see what goes on when I get the new one (replacement) from Amazon. This is all I got.

After removing the dead unit and just using the SDR dongle by it's self, I'm getting beautiful signals on NOAA-18. I guess that filter was junk.

OK, my new SAW/LNA filter for 137 MHz died in service last night, didn't get anything on any satellite because of that, returning it to Amazon for replacement.

I'm still getting zip on the meteor satellites, again I wounder if they are turning them off when they go over North America. Great pass but no downlink audio.