[amsat-bb] Weather sat imaging

[Joe Pereira]

Perhaps you need to do a calibration ?

http://leshamilton.co.uk/wxtoimg.htm

JP

On Sat, Jun 30, 2018 at 1:25 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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