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Pulling Clear Images Directly Off Satellites | GOES-15,16,17 and Himawari 8 HRIT

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What it is

The Thought Emporium shows how to receive clear images directly from GOES-15, 16 and 17 and Himawari 8 geostationary weather satellites with software-defined radio. It covers the extra effort needed to receive GOES data.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters credit it for inspiring their own satellite-reception hobby and praise the channel's high-quality content.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2018, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “got inspired after watching this video”

    Inspired a hobby of receiving GOES satellite imagery

    c0nducktr, 2018-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Receiving NOAA Weather Satellite Images with $10 USB SDR Device (2014) [video]”

  2. “The Thought Emporium makes really high quality content.”

    High quality content across varied projects from the channel

    notsound, 2022-04 · Strong recommendation · in “How to pull images from satellites in orbit”

  3. “A YouTube channel called The Thought Emporium has a series about using a sdr called the HackRF”

    Series on using HackRF for radio telescope and satellite reception

    jedimastert, 2018-12 · Recommendation · in “Serial Port SDR”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: goes-16, sdr, weather satellites, hrit, radio

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