Radarspotting

Bit of an off-the-wall question but I'm wondering if the SDR on the SBS-3 can be configured to download and display satellite information and audio?

What I'm trying to ask is, can it be configured to work like the FUNCube dongle http://www.funcubedongle.com/ ?

Thanks

Stephen

Hopefully Chris from Kinetic will respond as he's always mentiong the FUNCube?

Stephen

Did you ever get a reply to your question re sat imagery - I run my own weather web site and if I could use the SBS3 to receive imagery it would save me a few quid!

Phil

Bethy. I may be way off the mark .I think the SDR On the SBS-3 ends around 980 mhz. from the supplement ie anywhere within the range of 27mhz to 980mhz.
will have to have a root around to see what weather sats fall within that range

                                                                                      Billko

Weather satellites I have received and which are currently active;

NOAA 15   137.62 MHz
NOAA 18   137.9125 MHz
NOAA 19   137.10 MHz

SBS-3 will of course receive them but I think Bethy was asking if it could be used to do the actual decoding.

David Taylor who is a prominent member of the PlanePlotter Yahoo Group is an expert and may even have used the SBS-3. Here's the link to his site: http://www.satsignal.net/

Thanks for the replies. Even the R820T dongle will download weather satellite data, but Tom is right in thinking that I was asking will it do the decoding too?

Sorry about That Chaps.I'll keep my nose out!!. An thanks for that site Tom not seen it before Bookmarked


                                                                            Billko

thanks for the info gents

Phil