Hacking Portable Satellite Dish For More Space Experiments

You need to change waveguide! The one on a antenna is for 12 GHz, not the 1.5 GHz! L band signals can not get thru at all ... Another problem is, you need dish diameter at least 10 Lambda to be efficient. So for L band would be apropriate minimal dish diameter from 1.2m and up. Your tiny dish could be usable from 10GHz upward.

After all is said and done.....?
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This may be considered the first,
" Space Age " Hoarder ?

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you need an image file for each SAT

🤙So cool, fascinating! The Frankenstein interface cable is great... Halenstein lol

What software are you using to communicate?

You’ve lost weight :)

6900 baud

I would love to see more videos on satalite hacking! greetings from Lithuania!

Amazing work! Very inspiring!

Very cool. I bet you could hack it into a star finding / tracking telescope. An optical telescope that is.

I highly doubt a brief warm period during a year constitutes people messing w/ weather/climate or a long-term change in weather for a particular month..

It's especially sus when it's focused on CO2, which is needed by plants like humans need air. But the same ppl telling us "it's all b/c of what mankind did/does" never address this very basic fact.
They just want to tinker w/ nature to "fix" tinkering w/ nature. Ill never understand why so many smart ppl buy into it w/o question.

As for the project -- it's still cool. It would be pretty sweet if a couple of these could be utilized for more long range communications as that's a problem many people run into. But being able to visual NEO objects it cool.

A suggestion: maybe put a 6DoF or 9DoF IMU on the dish or feed horn, as you can then get azimuth from the B field, and altitude from the accelerometer. That might make for better output than trusting the open loop control on the stepper motors. Great work!

Also, I used to live up in Roseville, and was a regular over at Ax-Man. Tell 'em Pete says hi when you next stop in!

i understand nothing but it sounds very interesting. best regards from germany

Good job. But honestly SAR is the way to go. Can you get some 2nd hand starlink antennas? They are SAR arrays.

Are you using a commercial driver? F something or other? If so, it injects a licence error occasionally. Switch to the ch3xx driver that is open source. Effing Brits. Eff them!

Hi, great video, could you help me out to understand the "software to find radio" that you hooked to the dish? :) and what program are you using on the PC? thanks and cheers from Munich.

You might want to modify you display to shift the L-R scans relative to the R-L scans. A particular shift value will likely increase the contrast/detail.

Liked video for Spam shirt.

What would a good source of information about receiving and identifying Starlink and OneWeb satellite signals using readily available equipment? Thanks.

Decode StratoSat TK-1 satellite images

Don't give up, this is one of the most interesting things I've seen in a while!

Got to go FTDI for RS232 DACs

maybe that satdish is made by Aerotine

Can you please show us what baud rates you use? Please don't cut out the parts of the video where you figure out the settings...it's very helpful to learn from.

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How can you hack a Bluetooth device??😅😅😅

Nice work . 👏 . Keep it up and keep digging you'll get there .

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Couldn't you add physical limit switches and then program the python script to read those limits? I imagine the precision is lost after the grinding process. I never knew these types of mini dishes existed and now I definitely want a few to tinker with for HF or SSTV projects. Thank you for sharing this.

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as a ham radio amateur I say, 'this is awsome!'
great work, big deal!
must have one of this!
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Without software, it won't work.😂 Plus decryption from satellite signals will take decades to decode.😂 There you go!

A lot of these show up at Goodwill and on Amazon auctions but I haven't found a use for them.

I cant believe we have this technology and every person ive ever met in my life doesnt know how anything works

Amazing sir great project 👍👍👍👍

Awesome work sir

Offset scan lines. Motor control has rehomed because of motion limit crash. The imaging brain is just counting steps not knowing the motion limit was hit? Almost like the belt was out of position.😆

Can you receive transmissions from Satellites and read in wireshark for example or is that a dream?

flow control?

Wait are you scanning while the dish is in motion or only taking readings when the motors are paused because that could account for the weirdness in your heatmaps youd be essentially having smudges in your picture where doppler shifts during a step of the motors will have your reciever picking up all sorts of background noise during movement it also would make sense as to how readings on one axis are more accurate but only for heatmaps of objects further away from what i can see essentially your reciever is moving in the same direction as a lot of the objects youd be recieving in one orientation and not in the other

This looks so cool ! Makes me want to get into whatever this is.