Recent content by doubleohwhatever

I watched it live. It was a very good presentation.

Honestly, at the rate they're going, it's going to be very late 2017 or 2018 before GOES-R takes up position as east or west. So I'm not even worrying about this for now. Ultimately though, I think it's going to be hit or miss whether the Verizon signal creates interference. If you're not too...

Nah, I wouldn't waste the money. My DIY EMWIN setup with the grid dish breaks down like this cost-wise: 1) 2x TP-Link Grid Dishes: $89.54 ($44.77 each) - http://goo.gl/YP5beK 2) LNA: $150 - http://www.downeastmicrowave.com/product-p/1691lnah.htm 3) AirSpy R2: $169 (on sale atm) 4) Decoder (from...

Thanks! Shocker. I'm going to go ahead and call it. We won't see GOES-R take up a east or west position until VERY late 2017 or early 2018.

Btw, I have successfully moved from receiving EMWIN to receiving LRIT! Screenshot attached. Thanks to everyone here in this thread for the help with the dish/signal issues and thanks to Joe for the decoder! The only "problem" I'm having at the moment is with xrit2pic not automatically...

What angle should I be aiming for? I've played around with it and it doesn't seem to make a difference in the signal (which is weird).

He's been traveling this week but when he gets time he's going to send me a copy of the LRIT decoder to try. So hopefully I'll be able to obtain some LRIT images myself fairly soon! I remember those days! It was better than nothing but sometimes they were barely useful. I don't even want to...

How do the current GVAR images compare to the current LRIT images?

I'm actually rather surprised at how sturdy it seems to be. We had some 20mph wind yesterday and it didn't budge a bit. I figured the dish would at least wobble a bit on the horizontal plane but nope, nothing. Since it's just temporary, nothing is actually attached to the house, nor is there...

In addition to my primary setup with my 1.2m dish, I decided to build one of the antennas Tim designed using the two 2.4ghz grid antennas and compare the two. Honestly, I'm quite surprised by how well it performs. I've attached two screenshots. One showing the antenna and one showing the...

Eh, it'll be at least a year before the changeover happens and that's assuming all goes well with the launch and assuming everything works during testing. So I'd go ahead and get your setup going if you find the time.

Definitely seems to be working for EMWIN. I can't wait until Joe/USA SatCom makes the lrit demodulator available! Nope. A microbud will not work. I've never heard of anyone getting a reliable signal on anything under ten feet. That said, you could probably get a signal on a eight foot dish...

I'd say it also depends on whether you're connecting to goes east or west. I know they haven't said which position goes-r will replace (east or west) but I'm leaning towards east. This is why: http://www.goes-r.gov/spacesegment/glm.html The east position has a much better view of CONUS and...

Same here. I've been tempted but with the coming changes it just didn't make sense. They are HORRIBLE about replying to emails. I'm honestly not sure how they are still in business since they never reply to sales questions. I can sort of understand why they want to combine them. The LRIT and...

Problem Solved! Turns out I was off by just a wee bit on the center frequency.