NOAA POES

The NOAA 15, 18, 19 satellites are polar orbiting satellites that transmit observed weather images from 800ish miles above the ground.
When a satellites becomes visible from the lakehouse roof, the signal is picked up by a QFP antenna, decoded by a Raspberry pi 4, and displayed below.
What's displayed is the raw data. Partial or "fuzzy" images are reflections of solar and atmospheric interference, and sometimes even simply distant passes overhead.
Even so, it's pretty cool it works at all!

Locations

• NOAA 15
• NOAA 18
• NOAA 19