WELCOME TO PA1PJ's APT POLAR WEATHER SATELLITE PAGE !
"De Koppelpoort" , Old entrance of Amersfoort , The Netherlands (my QTH)
Weather-Webcam Amersfoort.
Simple receive and decode APT-signals from NOAA weather satellites.How ?
- Connect a 137-138 MHz receiver to the soundcard of your PC , record the signal of the satellite as a wave-file , use decode software and finally ............... you have nice images from the earth as seen from about 900km .See menu , actual recordings.
Difficult ? Just try.
What do you need for this ?
ANTENNA , make or buy a antenna for the 137 MHz band , e.g. my PA1PJ Turnstile Antenna, see Technical details.
RECEIVER , connect the antenna to a 137 MHz recever , e.g. R2FX Receiver , see Technical details
PC , with a soundcard , if possible with a serial port , connect the audio output from the receiver with the audioinput of the PC.
SOFTWARE to record the audio signal of the satellite (WxToImg , APT-decoder) , see web Links
SOFTWARE to decode the audio signal into a image (Satsignal , APT-decoder) , see web Links
ACCESS TO INTERNET for downloading the latest Kepler-data , see web Links
