Re: weather satellite receiving

[walter harms <wharms@xxxxxx>]

nice to hear from you,

i use a turnstile (http://www.df2fq.de/produkte/Turnstile.html)
that i bought from www.df2fq.de including a r2fx receiver.
I use now wxtoimg on SuSE10.0 on an old pIII-500.

The antenna is mounted on a roof but i have serious problems receiving, 
causing the images to be black in black for now (and no idea why, any 
idea wellcome ).
As second option i plan to try wxget. Under sourceforge there is a 
project called groundstation but i did not test it now.

re,
 wh




Melvin G. Seyle, Jr. wrote:
> walter harms wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> > i am trying to do some weather satellite receiving, with a r2fx 
> > receiver for NOAA satellites. i am looking for people also interested 
> > in that toppic.
> >
> > re,
> >  walter
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> Walter,
>
> Two years ago I did quite a bit of wx receiving during hurricane 
> season.  I built a QFH antenna and used my Yaesu FT-897 to receive the 
> 136 MHz satellites.  I was using the wxtoimg program running under 
> Windows ME.  I've since gotten interested in linux, and am planning to 
> try receiving some of the wx images using wxtoimg running under linux.  
> It's a good program, and I was able to produce some very nice images 
> with the antenna mounted on a tripod sitting in my front yard.
> What software will you be using, and what antenna do you have?
>
> 73,
> Mel
> W4MEL
> North Charleston, SC
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