{"id":1421,"date":"2021-04-04T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-04T01:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/04\/a-satellite-ground-station-receiver-made-from-junk\/"},"modified":"2021-04-04T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-04T01:56:00","slug":"a-satellite-ground-station-receiver-made-from-junk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/04\/a-satellite-ground-station-receiver-made-from-junk\/","title":{"rendered":"A Satellite Ground Station (Receiver) Made from Junk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"247\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/EK8mFrxxSbY\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><b>Very cool. This guy (who brew up on an island in Alaska) really knows how to use aluminum tape and the junk that fills most workshops. I like his use of the security camera mount as an az-el antenna rotator. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>I foolishly discarded a Direct TV dish. I could have been receiving GOES images by now! <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>Just last week I got the same RTL-SDR.com V3 dongle that he is using. Very FB. It does HF direct sampling with no hardware mods and no upconverter. <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b>More from the builder, Gabe Emerson (KL1FI): <\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCNLRcEn78Vc62C3GkMvBgtA\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCNLRcEn78Vc62C3GkMvBgtA<\/a><\/b><\/div>\n<div><b><br \/><\/b><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"background-color: #f1f1f1; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;\"><span face=\"Roboto, Arial, sans-serif\" style=\"color: #030303;\"><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saveitforparts.com\/\">http:\/\/www.saveitforparts.com\/<\/a><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very cool. This guy (who brew up on an island in Alaska) really knows how to use aluminum tape and the junk that fills most workshops. I like his use of the security camera mount as an az-el antenna rotator. I foolishly discarded a Direct TV dish. I could have been receiving GOES images by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/04\/a-satellite-ground-station-receiver-made-from-junk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Satellite Ground Station (Receiver) Made from Junk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,30,179,82,40,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alaska","category-radio-astronomy","category-raspberry-pi","category-satellites","category-sdr","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}