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Receive METEOR weather satellite images with RTLSDR and GQRX on Linux

Receive METEOR weather satellite images with RTLSDR and GQRX on Linux

by Daniel Vogelbacher on

Requirements

You should be able to compile sourcecode from github and installing tools from your distribution. I use Debian and except of a few special packages, everything is included in Debian Buster.

Satellites used

There are 3 satellites in orbit:

  • METEOR-M 1 (decommissioned)
  • METEOR-M 2
  • METEOR-M 2-2

Frequencies used

Satellite Frequency Bandwidth Data Symbol rate Modulation
METEOR-M N2 137.1 MHz 140 kHz LRPT 72000 QPSK
METEOR-M N2-2 137.9 MHz 140 kHz LRPT 72000 OQPSK

Good online resource with more information (active APIDs, …) is http://happysat.nl/Meteor/html/Meteor_Status.html.

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