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Receiving NOAA weather images using RTL-SDR

HI all , In one of my previous posts , I explained how to receive ISS SSTV images (see  RECEIVING SSTV FROM ISS ! Steps involved in decoding when using MMSSTV ).Today I will describe reception of APT images from NOAA series of satellites using RTL-SDR dongles . The steps are outlined below . Record the WBFM signals from one of the NOAA weather sats ( NOAA 15,18 or 19) . You can use any of the satellite prediction software like Orbitron,GPredict etc to do the predictions . The recording can be done using any the SDR software like SDRsharp , HDSDR or GQRX . I use GQRX as my lab PC is Linux powered (see  Lab / Shack PC running Linux !  ) . The recording should be in .WAV format with the filter set tot the right bandwidth . Import the .WAV file into Audacity . Change the project rate to 11025 Hz and split the stereo track into two ( If u don't know audacity , this can be done by clicking the small arrow button near the tracks ) . Delete one of the tracks and make t...