Review on 🌍 Nooelec Weather Satellite RTL-SDR Bundle - NESDR SMArTee XTR Included for Receiving LRIT, HRIT & HRPT Satellite Weather Images from Space! by Ben Cooper

Includes everything needed to receive images from GOES-16 and GOES-17. Personally, I aimed the bowl at both and got absolutely incredible pictures. I've taken the entire disk of the earth in different wavelengths and seen photos of California fires, weather reports and put them together into a video of Hurricane Ida hitting Louisiana. Some assembly is required, but there's a link to the manual that came with the device and several third-party guides online to set it up. I ended up hooking it up to a Raspberry Pi and using gotools and Sanchez (both on Github) to decode and process the images. Each satellite broadcasts about 550MB and hundreds of files per hour, but 5424 x 5424 images are worth it. You can even get images from the old GOES-15 satellite and the Japanese Himawari 8 satellite orbiting Australia and also transmitting some images via the GOES satellites. Tips: 1. The dish is quite focused so you really have to dial it, but the DishPointer site helped me a lot to find the satellite.2. I wouldn't worry too much about the exact tilt/rotation of the pelvis. Although correct horizontal azimuth and vertical elevations must be obtained, polarization is not as critical. This device comes with a mounting unit that can only be rotated in 45 degree increments; In the worst case, they will be 22 degrees. Even a 45 degree offset is only a 3dB loss, which is bad but fixable, so I'm confident in the 45 degree accuracy and am not looking for a replacement bracket.3. It is imperative that the front reflector is vertical as shown in the attached drawings and manuals. The reflector can be upside down, and that's fine, but it can't be at a 90 degree angle or it will be grossly out of phase with the linear polarization coming from the satellite.4. The Low Noise Amplifier (LNA) block is needed because I had bad luck connecting the SDR directly to the short coax cable coming out of the dish.5. The LMR-400 cable is surprisingly stiff and chunky, but it can be twisted or stretched and shouldn't be a problem.6. I would also recommend waterproofing the LNA as it has an unused USB connector on top. I think I'll use duct tape. But in reality it's all small things and the device works very well out of the box. You'll get amazing photos wherever you are!