Grabbing Military Satellite Data With Hacked TV Dish

Описание: How do you use an old free satellite dish if you don't care about TV? Obviously you download images from US Military satellites!

This project uses a motorized antenna from an RV (the Winegard "Trav'ler" dish) that I found on FB marketplace. I replaced the stock LNB with a 3D printed helical feed for the microwave S-band (You can find the 3D printer files here: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:498...

I'm using a Nooelec HackRF One Software Defined Radio: https://amzn.to/3WxWsYL

I also have an RTL-SDR Wideband LNA: https://amzn.to/3WEorWX

I'm also using a Minicircuits 1710-2400MHz LNA like this one: https://www.ebay.com/itm/185692990203
(You might be able to find them cheaper if you're not in a hurry)

You can find my computer code to interface with the dish here: https://github.com/saveitforparts/Tra...

Gpredict is here: https://oz9aec.dk/gpredict/

Big thanks to Nate (saito720 on Discord) for the ground track animation!

Also thanks to Scott from California for suggestions with my regex code.

And thanks to ISO-Tip for the new soldering iron, you can find them at https://iso-tip.com/

I use SatDump software for most of my satellite data processing: https://www.satdump.org/

I also use N2YO.com for satellite tracking: https://www.n2yo.com

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