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Old Eight-Foot Satellite Dish Converted To Ground A Wheelchair Motor and a Raspberry Pi Turn an Old 8-Foot Dish Into a Satellite Ground Station

Big satellite dishes from the 80s and 90s still sit in fields everywhere, usually rusting. YouTuber and fabricator Cranktown City found an eight-foot one and turned it into a working satellite ground station on his new plot of land, with a Raspberry Pi doing the aiming and the decoding. The build video has passed 220,000 views.

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Large Satellite Dish Tracking Weather Satellite Signals Turning a Backyard into an 8-Foot Satellite Ground Station with Raspberry Pi to Capture Weather Images from Space

Cranktown City has built a DIY satellite ground station that uses an 8-foot satellite dish to follow satellites as they move across the sky and receive the radio signals they transmit. Unlike a manually operated dish, this system can calculate a satellite's position and automatically move the dish to follow it. One of the project's biggest achievements is receiving full-disk weather images…

Fennec Open Source Handheld Radio Decoding SSTV Fenix: An Open-Source SI4732 + ESP32S3 Radio That Decodes SSTV Images and Morse Code From Shortwave Signals

A small open-source handheld radio called Fennec is turning the ESP32-S3 into much more than a conventional AM/FM receiver. Built around the Silicon Labs SI4732-A10 radio receiver, Fennec can tune FM, AM and shortwave frequencies, decode Slow Scan Television (SSTV) images, translate Morse code into text, monitor radio activity and even help users locate a stronger signal by following its…