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Pulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT

The Thought Emporium · 635.5K views · 2018-09-06 · 11:01

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Overview

The Thought Emporium shows how to receive clear images directly from GOES-15, 16 and 17 and Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellites with software-defined radio. It covers the extra effort needed to receive GOES data.

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HN commenters credit it for inspiring their own satellite-reception hobby and praise the channel's high-quality content.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 2 months · HN mentions 2018–2023

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notsound · 2022-04 · Strong recommendation

The sequel to this video: [VIDEO] The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content. He does a lot of things, most recently covering things in metal, but in the past they have made videos on gene editing, growing opals, and making holograms. It’s a lot of different topics, all presented very well.

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c0nducktr · 2018-12 · Strong recommendation

I'm in the process of setting up an antenna for receiving data from the GOES-15 weather satellite. I'm just starting out but got inspired after watching this video (no affiliation with the channel). [VIDEO] People have been able to get some stunning pictures of the earth from those satellites. Examples: [LINK] [LINK] [LINK] If you're interested, check out r/rtlsdr, which is where I first was introduced to the hobby. It's full of helpful people.

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jedimastert · 2018-12 · Recommendation

A YouTube channel called The Thought Emporium has a series about using a sdr called the HackRF to make a radio telescope and a satellite receiver for a few weather sats. [VIDEO]

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