A Simple Guide to Setting up a DIY NOAA Weather Satellite Ground Station

A few weeks ago we posted about Sophie Dyer and Sasha Engelmann's work in creating an artistic performance based on weather satellite reception with SDRs. More recently they have uploaded their own tutorial showing how they receive NOAA APT weather satellite images with an SDR, turnstile antenna and computer. Sasha and Sophie note that they are attempting to create visually rich guides that don't assume any prior knowledge of radio, science or engineering.

From Sasha's Twitter feed we note that they are also working on upcoming public workshops in the UK and Germany on the topic of reflections on what it means to bring an intersectional feminist ethos to satellite image decoding + weather sensing, & new creative collaborations in 2020. If you are interested in their work please follow @sashacakes and @sophiecdyer on Twitter.

Receiving NOAA weather satellites
Receiving NOAA weather satellites
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RI

Satellites can for sure resolve the enormous shoehorn that was required to insert intersectional feminist ethos into this topic.

Andrew

This is great, I have been looking for a good clear explanation of how to set this up. Thanks. I have successfully downloaded image data from a NOAA satellite with a home made V dipole aerial. Keep up the good work.

jasmine

@BIFF OK Boomer.

BIFF

“intersectional feminist ethos” BARF