Downloading Satellite Imagery With A Wi-Fi Antenna
Downloading Satellite Imagery With A Wi-Fi Antenna Made possible by your generous donations Donations Ivy Stone Place Sathero Meters DMS International BLOG Downloading live satellite imagery directly from space is a popular project among amateur radio and weather enthusiasts. When people talk about doing this with a Wi-Fi antenna , they are almost always referring to a 2.4 GHz parabolic grid antenna (the grid mesh dish style often used for long-range Wi-Fi links). See HACKADAY While these antennas are manufactured for Wi-Fi, they can be re-purposed or modified to capture ultra-crisp, high-resolution imagery from geostationary and polar-orbiting weather satellites operating in the L-band (around 1.7 GHz) . See RTL-SDR 1. The Core Concept: Why a Wi-Fi Antenna? Satellites like the US GOES series, Europe's Meteosat , or Russia's Elektro-L stream continuous weather data and full-disk images of Earth. They tra...