And the answer is "sort of!" I could just about make out the carrier (almost at the noise floor) early yesterday with a 7ft dish and wideband LNA. I saw some nice recordings of it when it was closer to Earth, but my angles were never quite right to get much during the initial orbit.
Video about my attempts here: https://youtu.be/_0U7ljvHIhY
After running a script for 24 hours below are the results:
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I have left the script running, should there be any more new schedules found I will update this post
METEOR-M N2-4 2026/04/20 22:17 UTC Nooelec NEsdr v5, diy QFH, Satdump
New to sats and still in learning phase.
Is it true that the Q0-100 is the only geostationary amateur sat and it's not usable in the usa?
Artemis II and project Hail Mary have my mind on space, so I decided to make a little cubesat.
The radios and solar panels available at dollar stores would make 1958 NASA engineers drool
Significantly increased my low on the horizon capture of the meteors by building a tracking mount.
This was from a week long capture of Goes 19 back in August. I followed the guide made by usradioguy with some tweaking of my own.
Moved the secondary reflector away from the dipole until I hit the lowest SWR possible at 1694 MHz, and covered the entire dish and secondary reflector with aluminium foil to increase its overall surface area. I'm wondering though if I missed the focal point after moving the reflector out, but that's a problem for future me. I'm still waiting for my Nooelec GOES LNA to arrive and then everything is up to go.
[Additional Info] I'm situated in New Zealand and GOES-18 & GK-2A are both at a relatively low elevation (less than 25°) so I figured adding foil should improve my gain a bit. This is my first L-Band antenna so I would love to hear any suggestions for my project. Hope this thing works. Thanks
THE new VR feature that lets you visualize satellites directly in the sky using your camera will be available in next update version.
In this demo: SAUDICOMSAT and CSS satellite — both captured in the same field of view, in real time.
No maps. No guesswork. Just point and see.
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4 foot alibaba dish with Discovery Dish L Band feed adapted. Raspberry Pi5 and HackRF.
I have harmonics sometimes on the entire spectrum. I've tried with rtl sdr v3, v4, pluto sdr. With nooelec sawbird+ h1, htool ht004. With different cables, with different power supplies, but the problem isn't solved. What can I do to fix that?