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introduction
Welcome to Remote Imaging in West Sussex.
My name is Mike Jupp and this page is about my interest in receiving weather satellite images.
It will contain links to images that I have received from various NOAA satellites
and those I have downloaded from the NOAA Satellite Active Archive.
Thanks to NOAA for the free access to the data.
High Resolution Picture Transmission satellites transmit a digital signal at 1.7GHz.
A special receiver and decoder are needed to produce the images which have a resolution of 1.1km per pixel.
The satellite also has to be tracked across the sky, preferably with a dish antenna, although a helical can be used.
setup for NOAA HRPT
Is the Timestep HRPT system.
Comprising the CHRPT receiver, HRPT USB interface and 90cms dish+1.7GHz LNA.
Tracking is by the Timestep Autotrack and a Yaesu G5500 rotator.
This system is controlled by an AMD Athlon 1GHz pc with 512Mb of ram and running WIN2K Pro.
Software is David Taylor's HRPT Reader, HRPT for Windows and Paintshop Pro 7.
NOTE
All the HRPT images are now full size uncorrected and are quite large in size. If you are
on dialup these will take a while to load, typical size is 1.2/1.5Mbs.
weather station
Now have my Davis Vantage Pro Plus weather station hooked up to the internet.
It is now set to refresh the website data every 15 minutes and should be online 24/7.
Please do not rely on the weather information for scientific purposes,
although it should give a fair indication of the weather here in Steyning.
The station has all the usual sensors including sunshine and UV capability.
The station also produces NOAA daily, weekly, monthly and annual reports.
Weather station time is set to GMT/UTC so will differ local UK summer time by -1 hour.
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