[amsat-bb] Weather sat imaging

[Peter Goodhall (2M0SQL)]

Wxtrack is for tracking satellites.

You could record the pass and use SatSignal or Google APT Decoder and see
what other apps are available.

On Fri, 29 Jun 2018, 20:59 Mark L. Hammond, <marklhammond at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> How about WXtrack?
>
> http://www.satsignal.eu/software/wxtrack.htm
>
> 73,
>
> Mark N8MH
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 11:55 AM, <skristof at etczone.com> wrote:
>
> > Well, I reloaded SDR# and VB audio virtual cable. The weather sat image
> > is still shredded horizontally. I checked the website for WxtoImg and it
> > is blank.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any other software for decoding and displaying
> > weather satellite images?
> >
> > Any other suggestions on getting this fixed will be appreciated.
> >
> > Steve AI9IN
> >
> > On 2018-06-28 19:17, Mvivona wrote:
> >
> > > The reason I asked if it was the laptop is that I had a similar issue
> on
> > my laptop. I had it all running fine with the connection from the
> > microphone jack out of my radio then all of a sudden one day it was
> > breaking images. I came to find out that somehow the input got switched
> to
> > the microphone and it was picking up the sound from the speaker through
> the
> > microphone.
> > > A couple of other things that I would look at would be making sure my
> > bandwith is set to Wide FM @ 30khz and any noise filters are off.
> > > I'm sure you will trip across some little item and I have that Aha
> > moment.
> > >
> > > Michael Vivona
> > > Sent from my iPad
> > >
> > > On Jun 28, 2018, at 8:46 AM, skristof at etczone.com wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes, this is on a laptop. I have successfully received images on this
> > > laptop for a couple of years.
> > >
> > >> On 2018-06-28 07:42, Mvivona wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Is this on a laptop?
> > >>
> > >> Michael Vivona
> > >> Sent from my iPad
> > >>
> > >> On Jun 28, 2018, at 6:58 AM, skristof at etczone.com wrote:
> > >>
> > >> To get images from NOAA weather satellites I have been using an
> RTL-SDR
> > >> with SDR# software and the WxtoImg decoding program. This has worked
> > >> successfully for a couple of years. I use the VB virtual audio cable
> to
> > >> connect SDR# to WxtoImg.
> > >>
> > >> But about a month ago I had to reinstall SDR# as it wasn't working. I
> > >> think it may have been due to an update in Windows 10. So, SDR# is
> > >> working fine, but since the reinstall of SDR# I can no longer get
> > >> viewable images in WxtoImg. The pictures look they have been through
> the
> > >> shredder. I tried the slant correction and the resync as described in
> > >> the Help section, but it didn't fix anything.
> > >>
> > >> It looks like a sync problem, but if the resync doesn't fix it, I'm
> not
> > >> sure what to try next.
> > >>
> > >> All reasonable suggestions would be appreciated. Thank you.
> > >>
> > >> Steve AI9IN
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> Mark L. Hammond [N8MH]
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