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====== Software overview + tips ====== | ====== Software overview + tips ====== | ||
===== SDR Receiver software ===== | ===== SDR Receiver software ===== | ||
- | Honestly, it doesn’t really matter what software you use as long as it can pipe out audio to a virtual cable or record the audio or baseband for use later (for APT be sure to resample recordings to 11,025 kHz with your software of choice - see below). For LRPT you may wish to use SDR# as the plugin and setup is well-supported, | + | Honestly, it doesn’t really matter what software you use as long as it can pipe out audio to a virtual cable or record the audio or baseband for use later (for APT be sure to resample recordings to 11,025 kHz with your software of choice - see below). For LRPT you may wish to use SDR# as the plugin and setup is well-supported, |
If you’re struggling for CPU clock cycles you can run with a low sample rate for this work. This is useful for RTL-SDR dongles. Both signals easily fit into a 250kbps sample rate. This also makes it doable on RPIs, but processing the data afterwards can take longer than other devices. | If you’re struggling for CPU clock cycles you can run with a low sample rate for this work. This is useful for RTL-SDR dongles. Both signals easily fit into a 250kbps sample rate. This also makes it doable on RPIs, but processing the data afterwards can take longer than other devices. | ||
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==== SatDump ==== | ==== SatDump ==== | ||
- | If you don’t need map overlays for your LRPT captures then SatDump is a great solution that does everything you need and chucks out good images of a few different types. It’s certainly easier than setting up SDR# and multiple plugins and decoders and also opens up the world to further decoding of other satellites in other bands. | + | **Loading baseband recordings** - Do make sure you select the right sample rate (bandwidth selected in SDR application) and type when loading in your baseband. The box expects bits per second, rather than kilobits per second. Tick DC Block too if you know you have a spike in your recording. |
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- | Do make sure you select the right sample rate (bandwidth selected in SDR application) and type when loading in your baseband. The box expects bits per second, rather than kilobits per second. | + | |
==== LRPT Decoder ==== | ==== LRPT Decoder ==== | ||
- | Symbol | + | **Loading |
- | Additionally, | + | **Configuration .INI files** - The ini files are what tell the software |
==== MeteorGIS ==== | ==== MeteorGIS ==== | ||
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+ | The suite of software for win 10 is preconfigured in a single zip file for extraction to the root of any drive. | ||
+ | For more information and downloads see: http:// | ||
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+ | A good source on using MeteorGIS can be found at : https:// | ||
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+ | ==== Reprocessing Meteor M2 Images==== | ||
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+ | The attached zip file is a package put together by Les Hamilton. It allows you to reprocess any .s files you may have. These could have been created by any combination of software that suits you. The package will reprocess a .s file to remove black lines, assign a projection such as UTM, sharpen the image and overlay country borders etc. The readme.pdf included has the step by step procedure. Simply unzip the .zip file into the root of your drive. | ||
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- | Honestly, don’t worry if you can’t figure this out. The software is absolutely horrible and very much part of the “someone made it work for them and then stopped caring” school of software development. As you’ll see from the pages online it has a specific list of requirements for things like folder and file names and the command line is unforgiving if you’re doing post-pass decoding. If you’re set on projections/ | ||
- | (Put some useful commands here) |
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