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Category: Satellites

A Hardware Satellite Modem

 R1chae

The other day I found myself getting up unusually early to attend a ham radio market. 50% off everything really makes me do the most unlikely things. the haul ended up being 3 “METEOSAT Wefax” decoders and a Cisco 2950. Now, 2 of those decoders ended up being broken; in

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NOAA-2 zombie satellite hunting

 R1chae

Noaa-2 aka ITOS-D is a very old decommissioned Satellite launched in 1972. Almost 50 years after launch it was discovered that it was still transmitting a modulated signal! So I waited for a nice pass, took my helicone antenna and recorded the pass. The satellite transmits at 1697.5 MHz and

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