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I wanted to download images from the GOES-16 weather satellite, but didn't have a big enough satellite dish. So I made one out of an old TV dish, cardboard, and aluminum tape! Amazingly this actually works, and I was able to pull live pictures of the earth off the satellite in geostationary orbit! The cardboard won't last long-term, so I'm looking for an antique C-band dish that I can set up as a more permanent solution. However, for a cheap and expedient ground station, this worked pretty well! A step-by-step guide to receiving GOES satellites can be found here: More information here: Both of these guides assume you'll be using a re-purposed Wifi Grid dish. You can get the entire “kit“ of dish, SDR receiver, and LNA amp/filter here: =sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=goes s
