How to Pull Images from Satellites in Orbit (NOAA 15,18,19 and METEOR M2)

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  • Опубликовано: 6 янв 2025

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  • @thethoughtemporium
    @thethoughtemporium  6 лет назад +208

    Made an updated version of this video that looks at a much better satellite and gives images of the entire planet at once. Check it out:
    ruclips.net/video/jGWFg7EDnyY/видео.html

    • @foureyedchick
      @foureyedchick 5 лет назад +6

      Can you believe it that there are Flat-Earth people out there that say that satellites don't exist? And they claim that "satellites" are land-based transmitters put there secretly by the government to fool the people? Ridiculous! [Anyway, keep up the good work!]

    • @TimeeJustin
      @TimeeJustin 5 лет назад +1

      The Thought Emporium dude this stuff is amazing. I want to make my own. Definitely putting this on my project list!

    • @vfThome
      @vfThome 5 лет назад +2

      Dude, are you from brazil?? É brasileiro?? haha

    • @NicleT
      @NicleT 5 лет назад +1

      Hope the sound was remixed!

    • @NicleT
      @NicleT 5 лет назад

      Not the same video, but it’s amazing! (And the voice is cristal clear!!). Your video is very inspiring.

  • @NicuMihai
    @NicuMihai 6 лет назад +172

    i just watched one of the most impressives things i've ever seen

  • @snakeeyes237
    @snakeeyes237 5 лет назад +28

    I was wondering if it was possible to take pictures from a satellite and I found pure gold, this is amazing guys.
    I've learned a lot from you, impressive!

  • @Clino391
    @Clino391 7 лет назад +1888

    I work for NOAA and now I feel like an idiot!!! I need to try some of this stuff out

    • @sandspar
      @sandspar 7 лет назад +75

      LOL, was gonna post a url to your site, but here you are. You guys do a great job, although I don't like the new format recently introduced. I used to see a composite image of my region. Now I must select individual bands of much larger, more obscure region profile. More info, but TOO much for the layman like me. Fine problem to have, tho. HUGE FAN of NOAA!

    • @bunya303
      @bunya303 6 лет назад +7

      www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/real-time-solar-wind-phase-ii
      This is easily my new fave

    • @joshzwies3601
      @joshzwies3601 6 лет назад +49

      Now you know how NASA feels when they play Kerbal Space Program, learning by doing is far more effective than sitting and listening. If you want to learn something new, go and do it.

    • @Tjthemedic
      @Tjthemedic 6 лет назад +57

      Hahahaha, M34T, you're hilarious. Are you a flat earther, or?
      Also, to note - Americans never used Chinese spacecraft to get to orbit, and the usage of the Soyuz capsule to get to the ISS isn't a bad thing, both Russia and the U.S., along with many other countries were involved in the construction of the ISS, an international project. Space shouldn't be about nationalism.

    • @Tjthemedic
      @Tjthemedic 6 лет назад +21

      Hahahaha, you know NASA isn't just about "taking us to space and leading the way", right? Most of NASA's work is in Earth science, and monitoring weather. And, most U.S. companies, actually, use American companies to send up their satellites, usually with ULA.
      NASA's budget goes into way more things than whatever it is that you define as "taking us to space and leading the way" - presumably, flashy launches of humans. NASA still continues to launch probes and missions to space, and if you, for some reason, don't care about robotic exploration, they are currently developing and testing multiple methods of launching humans into space, I'd honestly be surprised if you never heard of the Orion capsule or the SLS.
      Making this some sort of weird nationalistic thing isn't helping anyone.

  • @To-mos
    @To-mos 4 года назад +2

    Years ago I pulled an image down from the ISS with SSTV decoding and it worked flawlessly. I have to try this with NOAA satellites now!

  • @hagalazmultiverze3411
    @hagalazmultiverze3411 4 года назад +38

    Just a little hint:
    When building wire antennas, start by rolling the wires between 2 sheets of e.g. MDF to get them straight.
    3D print support structures to keep the shape.

  • @josephberrigan8739
    @josephberrigan8739 7 лет назад +3

    This seems like a valuable skill set for a prepper - I imagine after a disaster the satellites would still be transmitting so real-time satellite imagery would be extremely valuable

  • @willwarden2603
    @willwarden2603 7 лет назад +21

    Way to go I studied RF in the military the information that you gave out was really good and spot on super impressed keep up the good work you’re the future of our world

  • @lekima7x161
    @lekima7x161 2 года назад

    Bruh, im spanish and im very grateful about discovering your channel, it feels nice to see that many people shares the love for crazy experiments!

  • @EricTheCat
    @EricTheCat 7 лет назад +29

    Great video. Thank you. I built a quadrifilar helix antenna for NOAA satellite reception about 10 years ago and it worked great. One radio project you might want to try is radio meteor detection. I run a system where I listen for meteors using a 20 meter dipole and monitor an out of range TV station. Meteors temporarily ionize the air creating a path that can cause the out of range station to come in for a moment. My system counts and collects data but it is fun to even just listen to the "ping" sounds when monitoring CW or SSB mode especially during a meteor shower.

  • @HobkinBoi
    @HobkinBoi 5 лет назад +451

    You could have your antenna set up permanently and have a raspberry pi manage the downloading and decoding. The setup could even be portabalized.

    • @MatheusPratta
      @MatheusPratta 5 лет назад +38

      I wonder if it's possible to have an Arduino connected to this setup too, controlling some servo motors mounted on the antenna, so it would track the satellite just as we do with telescopes... Could this improve the signal even more?

    • @HobkinBoi
      @HobkinBoi 5 лет назад +41

      @@MatheusPratta Antenna tracking is definitely possible, but it shouldn't be necessary if you built an antenna of semi decent quality.

    • @ΧάρηςΚυπαρίσσης
      @ΧάρηςΚυπαρίσσης 5 лет назад +6

      @@MatheusPratta check out the open source project named satNOGS! 😉

    • @kshitizmishra5845
      @kshitizmishra5845 5 лет назад +2

      @@ΧάρηςΚυπαρίσσης thanks for recommending

    • @TW-lt1vr
      @TW-lt1vr 5 лет назад

      How about 8 Parallellas?

  • @sontapaa11jokulainen94
    @sontapaa11jokulainen94 5 лет назад +17

    Holy sh*t! I tought this was some clickbait video where you just explain how you could do it,but you actually made a real antenna to get the images. This is really amazing! 🙂🙂😀 Thanks for the quality content! I wish you the best!

  • @AminANakhjavani
    @AminANakhjavani 6 лет назад +8

    I'm part of the IEEE chapter of my university and we are trying to build a radio telescope right now. This video and the one on the radio telescope were really interesting and I actually learned a lot from them. I'm really glad that you provided written info on this project and I might have to try to contact you in the near future about the radio telescope you built. Thanks.

  • @TwisterKidMedia
    @TwisterKidMedia 7 лет назад +130

    @The Thought Emporium I am a NOAA meteorologist here in the United States. Well done! Very informative and educational!

    • @thethoughtemporium
      @thethoughtemporium  7 лет назад +10

      Thanks :)

    • @spvillano
      @spvillano 2 года назад

      I really love your organization's products, they save many, many lives!
      I really love the forecast weather discussion, which can fill in the gaps when things are a bit... Complex. Especially when I was living in tornado alley.

    • @ernststavroblofeld1961
      @ernststavroblofeld1961 Год назад

      How do you pull your images from these satellites?

  • @doublestarsystem
    @doublestarsystem 6 лет назад

    Lots of telecom engeneers with years of experience behind dont even understund what a polarized EM signal is.... Great job....congratulation

  • @EnglishLaw
    @EnglishLaw 7 лет назад +307

    One of the most inspiring videos ever! An awesome random recommendation for a channel.

  • @eternalfizzer
    @eternalfizzer 5 лет назад +61

    That's an awesome way for amateurs to connect with space. Thanks so much!
    10:00 "I stood out in the rain with the antenna." How could that end badly? LOL!

  • @averagegeek3957
    @averagegeek3957 7 лет назад +33

    Hi, I'm 15 years old and I've been really interested in satellites over the last couple of weeks. I wasn't even aware that you could pull images from satellites like that. Thanks for showing me how to do it. I'm gonna buy all the required equipment and (hopefully) build a working setup over the next couple of months. Greetings from Germany!

    • @zvpunry1971
      @zvpunry1971 7 лет назад +23

      AverageGeek: You don't need an HackRF, it is relatively expensive (when I remember my budget when I was 15, I would say prohibitively expensive). Buy a rtl-sdr instead, you can have it for under 15€ which allows you to buy the other stuff that you also need.
      www.amazon.de/dp/B013Q94CT6

    • @Eisnschwein
      @Eisnschwein 6 лет назад +4

      zvpunry hättest ja auch auf deutsch schreiben können xD

    • @averagegeek3957
      @averagegeek3957 6 лет назад +2

      +Das Sahnebrot ich fühl mich ehrlich gesagt gerade ziemlich dumm, weil ich nicht sofort erkannt hab dass er auch deutscher ist :D

    • @zvpunry1971
      @zvpunry1971 6 лет назад +2

      @Sahnebrot: Natürlich hätte ich auch auf deutsch antworten können, aber für andere (englischsprachige) Leser potentiell hilfreiche Kommentare schreibe ich bevorzugt in Englisch, speziell unter englischsprachigen Videos und unter englischsprachigen Kommentaren.
      @AverageGeek: Kein Grund sich dumm zu fühlen. Das ist eher ein Indikator für mich, daß ich zu viel Text auf einmal geschrieben habe. Dadurch ist diese Information (letzte Zeile) unter gegangen. Ich hoffe trotzdem, daß mein erster Kommentar war hilfreich. Nach drei Wochen könntest Du vielleicht auch schon erste Empfangsversuche gemacht haben. ;-)

    • @l3p3
      @l3p3 6 лет назад

      Wen interessiert dein verdammtes Alter?

  • @chechecole5905
    @chechecole5905 5 лет назад

    Engineer here. Wow all of you really outdid yourselves, congrats on your excelent feat !!!!!!!!

  • @Ritermann
    @Ritermann 5 лет назад +9

    I am always amazed at how many things I have no clue about in life while watching others doing them.

  • @KeithSalisbury
    @KeithSalisbury 5 лет назад

    Wow the depth in this video is amazing! Great job!! Now try and do this in the middle of the Atlantic ocean in the middle of the night, it's quite a thrill!!

  • @balazscserneczky1838
    @balazscserneczky1838 5 лет назад +462

    Next: How to pull images from russian spy satellites.

    • @robertm1112
      @robertm1112 5 лет назад +33

      the standard Russian encryption algorithm is called Kuznyechik and is most likely used on all there spy satellites. good luck with that.

    • @ericcobourn3570
      @ericcobourn3570 5 лет назад +37

      @@robertm1112 i could if i wanted to but i dont because im very busy watching utube vids

    • @dickburt69
      @dickburt69 5 лет назад +2

      I bet the NSA is already in there. Probably corrupted the Russian satellites with the Air Force’s X-37..

    • @omkr0122
      @omkr0122 5 лет назад +25

      Russian encryption system great. Hacker gets beamed with images of pierogi and borsch instead!

    • @amankumarsingh6886
      @amankumarsingh6886 5 лет назад +7

      Next:
      How to dodge russian nuke falling at house?

  • @marinvidovic763
    @marinvidovic763 5 лет назад

    For 15 minutes you kept my 👀 Widely Opened. 📡
    Your work is amazing . Presentation very comprehensive and nice.
    So Inspirational !!!
    Keep posting and all the best in your further projects. My deep respect !!!

  • @pecfree
    @pecfree 5 лет назад +10

    Come on Brazil!! 🇧🇷
    Floripaaaa grande abraço.
    Great work!!
    I'm proud

  • @YouTubeDoxedMyRealName
    @YouTubeDoxedMyRealName 5 лет назад

    Legit. This is the best radio project! We can use those things that are the most important to our world.

  • @DavidHancock
    @DavidHancock 7 лет назад +119

    For the umbrella, have you thought about a silver (or gold) photography studio reflector umbrella?

    • @Hallucinatti
      @Hallucinatti 5 лет назад

      @ What the freekin frak?!!

    • @shubhampreetsingh8630
      @shubhampreetsingh8630 5 лет назад +4

      @D Brown This depends if the channel is made for free access. For example here in India, there is one government channel(DD national)which is free to access, so if you take wire from your TV and stick it out on your roof(even without dish) you will be able to access it freely! But that's different that most of the times nothing interesting is happening there.

    • @TheTeehee11111
      @TheTeehee11111 5 лет назад

      @ xD

    • @TechKidShazil
      @TechKidShazil 4 года назад

      @@shubhampreetsingh8630 how?

    • @crypto.7562
      @crypto.7562 2 года назад

      @@TechKidShazil digital tv broadcasts

  • @daic7274
    @daic7274 2 года назад

    Time to do this again after 25yrs or so, I set up the lunchtime weather centre in secondary school, the school had the equipment for a while but didn't know what to do with it. Had a word with the school technician and the head of geography and we installed it the following week. We had several antennas and a dish on rotator, I think that was for the GOES satellites. Always a satisfying sound when the signal started and images appeared. The system is probably still there abandoned and in bits in a cupboard somewhere, would love to have it,particularly the dedicated wideband receiver.

  • @DasIllu
    @DasIllu 6 лет назад +15

    Hey there, just a quick advice...
    Instead of wood use if possible MF protective electrical tubing. At least here in europe it is easy to optain in DIY shops and from electro resellers.
    Wood, especially when wet acts as a conductor. The effect might seem small at first, but when you take in consideration that you are dealing with sub micro volt signals... every single bit counts. Oh and since we're on topic: with the tubes you can also easily build helical antennas. Just wrap your copper around it. It hast a much better suppression of enviromental noise and a far better gain.
    You could even build an array of four Helicals with a bearable footprint and weight.
    Contact your local hams, ARRL, DARC and what not. There are always people happy to help you get a hold on this hobby.
    vy73

  • @ryno4ever433
    @ryno4ever433 5 лет назад

    God this is the best thing I've discovered on the internet this decade. You link everything in the description too. You're fucking amazing dude.

  • @nigeliloilo4398
    @nigeliloilo4398 6 лет назад +127

    I guess these guys are not flat earthers. They look like they have brains!

    • @foureyedchick
      @foureyedchick 5 лет назад +4

      Ha! Ha! I stumbled on your comment! Did you know that there are flat-earthers that claim that satellites don't exist? And they make the ridiculously lame statement that "satellites" are land-based transmitting antennas put there by the government to fool the public and inspired and run by the Satanic Illuminatti?

    • @CraigDohner
      @CraigDohner 5 лет назад +8

      @@foureyedchick wait till you hear their explanations. Bunch of idiots!
      What really makes me mad is when they say "the Bible says the earth is flat", when it does not

    • @coldburn5672
      @coldburn5672 5 лет назад +5

      Craig Dohner you are correct and I wish ppl would stop lumping flat-earthers and Christians together.

    • @foureyedchick
      @foureyedchick 5 лет назад +3

      @@coldburn5672 I am a Christian and I am not a flat-earther.

    • @foureyedchick
      @foureyedchick 5 лет назад +3

      @@CraigDohner I know!

  • @ProtoMan137
    @ProtoMan137 6 лет назад +1

    I don't unserstand what ppl are bitching about. The music's volume is perfect. This project is amazing. That's something I'd really like to do.

  • @KingDiddi
    @KingDiddi 5 лет назад +5

    For straighten wire: put one end of the wire in a vice and pull the other end of the wire really strong with a pincer. It straightens automatically in a perfect condition.

  • @WoodmanFFM
    @WoodmanFFM 4 года назад

    Tip for straightening your wires: Clamp them in a small battery drill and hold on to the other end with a pair of pliers.
    Now give them several turn with the drill and they'll straighten out beautifully.
    Works 100% and is very quick.

  • @richard-hawley
    @richard-hawley 7 лет назад +14

    Just found this. I actually built a WEFAX radio kit from MAPLIN Electronics back in the early 90s (the kit was called MapSat). It used a cross-dipole and I added a pre-amp to pick up these same NOAA and METEOR weather satallites. the audio went into a DAC box which had cards that slotted in which locked onto the signal parts for the selected format. This then sent signals out to an 8 pin output and passed into a computer via a printer port (or I/O card). I wrote machine code on an Amstrad CPC and Amiga to display them. Had to manually adjust the frequecy (around 135.5 Mhz) to account for doppler shift as the satellite passed over. Good times. Geostationary satellites are much more complicated. But a challenge.

    • @ab8yy
      @ab8yy 7 лет назад +2

      Just a comment on this. We are talking about satellites. WEFAX is typically a transmission over HF or Short Wave frequencies. Many programs for satellite decoding will work on WEFAX, but that would be something different. The signal can sound a lot the same, but you would need a short wave receiver and long outside antenna to get the WEFAX signals.

    • @coriscotupi
      @coriscotupi 6 лет назад +1

      +Steve Smith
      Exactly. While one can in principle receive satellite imagery with WEFAX, the signals as you said do not come directly from satellites, but are re-broadcast via HF (so, from ground stations). In the early 90s I had great fun with WEFAX. I received mainly Sigwx charts from meteorological stations thousands of km away, using an FSK demodulador connected to the PC's audio card "line in" port and "PC HF Facsimile" software from company called SSC (which unfortunately no longer does business in this weather Rx niche). I consistently got very good, clear images.

    • @fair1831
      @fair1831 4 года назад

      You say opposite to Einstein's relativity conjecturing, then
      Speed of light is Not supposed to be altered by the speed of its source.

  • @kingofcastlechaos
    @kingofcastlechaos 2 года назад

    Best example of Doppler Shift ever is at 10:18. Great work, new sub.

  • @raynermp
    @raynermp 6 лет назад +19

    Parabéns pelo trabalho de vocês e pela divulgação 👏🏼👏🏼

  • @Valkyrie612
    @Valkyrie612 5 лет назад +1

    Your channel is addicting to us science geeks!!!

  • @souravzzz
    @souravzzz 6 лет назад +7

    That was a fantastic recommendation from RUclips. Awesome videos, keep it up!

  • @newq
    @newq 2 года назад

    Not only is this a great tutorial on how to get images from weather sats, it's also a wonderful introduction to radio and antenna theory. Great job!
    Go get your amateur radio license, kids. Learn to make radio waves of your own! Talk back to the satellites!

  • @TheVergile
    @TheVergile 7 лет назад +5

    wow. this was..janky AF, but such a cool Project and props for pulling through even though you had very limited Tools and all. Very cool video

  • @lokmanmerican6889
    @lokmanmerican6889 5 лет назад

    Great simulation of field-antennae interaction at 2:20 and 2:50. Enjoyed that.

  • @canopusB
    @canopusB 4 года назад +8

    12:07 "You can clearly see Buenos Aires" and points to Uruguay

    • @Gui1The
      @Gui1The 3 года назад

      Buenos Aires is that grey spot just below Uruguay

  • @TSGEnt
    @TSGEnt Месяц назад

    loads of fun! I've been experimenting with NOAA imageyfor a bit now and I'll be attempting METEORM2 data soon.

  • @dachronic6709
    @dachronic6709 7 лет назад +13

    Hooly fucking shit... More, please... If only i knew this when i was a kid

    • @graxx1451
      @graxx1451 7 лет назад +1

      uk...you are paranoid,you fool.

    • @rogue_spirit
      @rogue_spirit 7 лет назад +2

      I might say this stuff wasn't available for general public when you were a kid, so no regrets to have.

  • @alpcns
    @alpcns 6 лет назад

    You guys are downright brilliant! 312 flat Earthers hated it (without even trying downloading for themselves, of course) which makes it even more wonderful and delicious. A Air Force technician-friend of mine, obviously way smarter than me, in the '80 wrote a program on my TRS-80 to calculate and track satellite orbits. He even wrote assembly code to real-time decode Morse signals, which at the time was incredibly impressive.
    Your work is of the same caliber. Amazing, and my hat off!

  • @0926001
    @0926001 5 лет назад +839

    Flat Earth community ain't gonna like this HAHAHAHA

    • @behnooddianat3402
      @behnooddianat3402 5 лет назад +100

      FEs be like: "this dude is working for NASA and getting paid to post these things", also "i'm too dumb to do this so i call it BS"

    • @astronomicaldreamscape6156
      @astronomicaldreamscape6156 5 лет назад +5

      Iuri Scheidegger
      Dude, I was just thinking the exact same thing.

    • @erickinney7482
      @erickinney7482 5 лет назад +3

      So will showing the cost line of the USA, Will that work aganst them? Or was there more than that? I mean their case must be pretty weak if thats all it takes is fuzzy pic from space showing a cost line,

    • @astronomicaldreamscape6156
      @astronomicaldreamscape6156 5 лет назад +32

      eric kinney
      Flat earthers don’t believe satellites exist, so showing them pulling images from satellites would make them angry.

    • @mindwideopen2579
      @mindwideopen2579 5 лет назад +26

      @@erickinney7482 FE think everything we have launched was thrown in the sea.
      Showing them a satilite in orbit blows there little minds. Unfortunately... they give us humans more credit than we deserve thinking we can pull of the largest, most expensive and farthest reaching con in human history capable of deceiving everyone and masking their "true" reality nice n neat in our *made-up* maths.
      Still haven't gotten a consistent answer for why though... Everything from religion to power plays.

  • @baghdadiabdellatif1581
    @baghdadiabdellatif1581 2 года назад

    Great work 👌
    Greetings from north Africa (Algerian dezert)

  • @errorgd
    @errorgd 7 лет назад +34

    first time i had hit a bell. This is just awesome. keep it up

  • @dougsie8791
    @dougsie8791 6 лет назад

    Thanks for taking time to make the video-great info!
    I'd like to respectfully suggest that videos such as these convey more clearly when there isn't background music with a strong beat overriding the speech (no matter how low volume it is)
    i thought it lowered the quality of this video.

  • @JaredPaxton
    @JaredPaxton 6 лет назад +8

    Very awesome! Also, Amateur Radio operators like myself can use voice communication through various communications satellites.

  • @lblset
    @lblset Год назад +1

    Так у вас поляризация антенны была левая, а сигнал со спутника с правой поляризацией. Еще бы антенна работала. Молодцы! Хорошая работа)

  • @joshuaguthrie8067
    @joshuaguthrie8067 7 лет назад +7

    The EM propagation is slower in the antenna material and coax (copper, aluminum, etc) than c. See/research velocity factor. Cutting assuming c, may give slightly incorrect lengths.

  • @b1aflatoxin
    @b1aflatoxin 6 лет назад

    I love this!!! Showing people what doesn't work as well is just as cool as show us what finally did work! - Easy sub!

  • @NatasPvPMontagesz
    @NatasPvPMontagesz 6 лет назад +4

    Vocês são brasileiros? Se forem, é incrível verem pessoas como vocês fazendo algo tão intrincado e complexo, parabéns!

  • @1.4142
    @1.4142 2 года назад

    I like how cloudy is sunny in Brazil

  • @hvfox
    @hvfox 7 лет назад +257

    This is fucking awesome! Nice work guys! I'm jelly now and really want to replicate now! Can't wait to see the next vid!

    • @thethoughtemporium
      @thethoughtemporium  7 лет назад +18

      Do it! it's such a simple project but with such awesome results. If you do end up replicating, this and building your own, there may be opportunities to collaborate on a big community project in the future. Glad you enjoyed :)

    • @crypto.7562
      @crypto.7562 3 года назад

      @@thethoughtemporium i did it with the cheap antenna that came with the sdr, just set the ends to 53.4 cm and connect it up

  • @goophy30
    @goophy30 5 лет назад

    You should join the Amateur Radio (Ham Radio) club in your area. Its relatively easy to get your Tech license and only cost $15. Then you can build antenna just like you did in this video, but now you can do things like actually talk to the International Space Station when it fly's over. Or do fun things like hidden transmitter hunting (fox hunt) where you use directional antennas to find a hidden transmitter. Along with making contacts all over the world using satellites or skip propagation. You will need the next license (General) to do the skip propagation. Just thought I would mention it seeing as your interest line up pretty well with the Amateur Radio Hobby.

  • @chuckkrueger3935
    @chuckkrueger3935 7 лет назад +6

    I know you're into radio so maybe this isn't what you want, but if you point a camera on a tripod, at night, in the general direction of of the satellite and do a time exposure, the stars will trail but the satellites will show up as point sources. you could match this to your radio data.

    • @ABaumstumpf
      @ABaumstumpf 7 лет назад +4

      Only for geostationary satellites. Other satellites more relatively fast.

    • @bryanbreen7943
      @bryanbreen7943 6 лет назад +1

      And to add to what ABaumstumpf said, the LEO satellites relative speed will make them leave streaks in any image that is much longer than what the stars leave from the Earth's rotation.

    • @crypto.7562
      @crypto.7562 3 года назад

      @@ABaumstumpf there called POES polar orbiting enviormental sattelites, basically means they follow the sun

  • @Jimwill01
    @Jimwill01 7 лет назад

    I see this is an older video, but it looks like many people are still watching it (including me). In early 2017 I managed to receive some of the SSTV pictures that the ISS sent over 2 meters by using a Bearcat Scanner hooked to a 2 meter J-pole! Didn't think it would work, but was pleasantly surprised! (decoded the SSTV with MMSSTV)

  • @Nae_Ayy
    @Nae_Ayy 6 лет назад +321

    I'm gonna have to try this with my flat earther uncle. See what kinds of excuses he makes.

  • @mattusi
    @mattusi 3 года назад

    Wait a second I've been watching you for about 2 years and just now I learned that you are Brazilian, Salve :D

    • @thethoughtemporium
      @thethoughtemporium  3 года назад +1

      I am not. I just happened to be in brazil while filming

    • @mattusi
      @mattusi 3 года назад

      @@thethoughtemporium Oh ok

  • @tjwiets6691
    @tjwiets6691 7 лет назад +107

    Anyone know if data from NOAA-20 will eventually be accessible once it's operational? It was just launched last weekend (currently named JPSS-1 until operational).

    • @bryanbreen7943
      @bryanbreen7943 6 лет назад +14

      Tj Wiets, direct broadcast services continue to be available from all NOAA POES and GOES spacecraft. However, the low rate analog formats demonstrated in this video (for N15,18,19) are no longer produced in the newer spacecraft. The newer spacecraft (including the partner instruments on the NASA EOS and MetOp A/B spqcecraft) produce only High Rate ("digital") data that require the decoding tools demonstrated in the video. Search for "direct broadcast" if you want to learn more.

    • @bryanbreen7943
      @bryanbreen7943 6 лет назад +7

      Oh, and it is accessible right now.

    • @MilesCallisto
      @MilesCallisto 6 лет назад +1

      Fun Fact: NPOESS (the cancelled program that evolved into JPSS) was supposed to have an LRPT Transmission mode, much like the Russian Meteor 3M series has. But that was cut when it became JPSS.

    • @seraphina985
      @seraphina985 3 года назад

      @@bryanbreen7943 This will always be the case with digital broadcasts as by definition the broadcast is simply a number it is the interpretation of that number that gives the versatility. That fact actually reminds me of the time they tried to crack down on sharing the broken CSS key and finding other ways to encode a number became a meme. Turns out this works well both ways you can encode anything in a number and you can encode a number in pretty much anything too especially when you have a computer and anything it produces is literally just encoding something in a number of arbitrary length.

    • @crypto.7562
      @crypto.7562 3 года назад

      yeah i think its x-band like 7 ghz

  • @davidaIano
    @davidaIano 6 лет назад

    Dude deserves more audience

  • @labibbidabibbadum
    @labibbidabibbadum 5 лет назад +18

    Fantastic. I'm in awe.
    (Although, it's a pity the technology doesn't exist to hold a small wooden pole steady, so you had to stand in the rain.)

  • @justinbayola
    @justinbayola 6 лет назад

    Good Job!!! I did the same thing by going to the NOAA website and clicking a few links but your way was way cooler

  • @PaganAbroad
    @PaganAbroad 5 лет назад +14

    "we tried to decode image with some s/w we found online" - any chance of sharing what you used?

  • @courtneyproctor2691
    @courtneyproctor2691 Год назад

    This is a very good video. It cleared up some things for me and I learned a lot. Ironically I woke wondering about the best antenna for this application. I was going to build a QHF until I saw this video.. I think I'll build a double cross antenna instead. I'm looking forward to trying this when my SDR-RTL v4 comes in the mail. Thanks

  • @tankumaat
    @tankumaat 7 лет назад +325

    50 people were very flat earthers ;)

    • @ZoniesCoasters
      @ZoniesCoasters 7 лет назад +13

      cristhian nuñez damn your country must have a pretty messed up education system if you can be fooled by something like this

    • @JustWasted3HoursHere
      @JustWasted3HoursHere 6 лет назад +31

      The fact that they had to follow the signal source as it moved across the sky AND it produced an image of a large portion of the United States tells us that satellites exist and move very fast. Even the highest flying drone or balloon would not be able to get a single image that large.
      Plus, if you look at any airplane, you'll notice that its GPS antenna is located on the top of the airplane (in the direction of space) rather than on the bottom (in the direction of some "Earth-based tower").

    • @Tylerjrb
      @Tylerjrb 6 лет назад +9

      JustWasted3HoursHere indeed they do you can see a good number of them on a clear sky with nothing more than your naked eyes. They look much better close up with binoculars/telescope though.

    • @MrLunithy
      @MrLunithy 6 лет назад +1

      ROFL

    • @thokling361
      @thokling361 6 лет назад +1

      It's 115 now. You roundworlders are losing fast! Oblong spheroids indeed...

  • @northamericanpichu
    @northamericanpichu 3 года назад +1

    Before anyone spends a long time trying to build one of these complicated antennas, try to make a V-dipole, with the elements 120° apart, its more compact, easy to make, and has a near-perfect omnidirectional radiation pattern

  • @br0th3rtub34
    @br0th3rtub34 6 лет назад +10

    “Hacker man, he’s the most powerful hacker in the world”

  • @sailingluana3037
    @sailingluana3037 5 лет назад

    You can straighten wire by taking a long run of it, putting one end in a vice, holding the other end tightly with pliers, hold the wire with slack, then with one hard movement yank the wire really hard. We use this method in aviation to straighten safety wire.

  • @betabenja
    @betabenja 5 лет назад +4

    why are you in Brazil?

  • @0x63Hawk
    @0x63Hawk 5 лет назад

    That's on of the most detailed video. Good job. I'm right behind you guys

  • @tjpprojects7192
    @tjpprojects7192 5 лет назад +7

    8:44 That's a strange looking graph.

  • @gary6212
    @gary6212 Год назад

    I use a regular discone MFJ-1866 (in my attic) for this and it works just fine. It also takes about 5 minutes to assemble and it covers a huge bandwidth.

  • @PicaDelphon
    @PicaDelphon 7 лет назад +6

    Did this 30 years ago with my Atari 800 and a XR2211 IC and old Radio Shack Realistic Patrolman SW-60 ..

    • @BoltRM
      @BoltRM 6 лет назад +1

      Pica Delphon I remember having a magazine about doing that on the Atari!

    • @petevenuti7355
      @petevenuti7355 6 лет назад

      I still have my Atari, tell me more...

    • @JaisimhaAllalghatta
      @JaisimhaAllalghatta 6 лет назад

      Those were the days

  • @westhamtube
    @westhamtube 5 лет назад +1

    How bloody dam cool lol
    This was 2017 and just seen this video, HackRF what a great bit of kit

  • @kd5alc
    @kd5alc 5 лет назад +30

    Just one ham operator could have saved you weeks of trial and error.

    • @pablotrobo
      @pablotrobo 5 лет назад +4

      I agree that it would be faster and less troublesome but i woud not watch if it was only an aleatory exercise. Learning first hand is different than downloading información from others. Analog to how watching somebody test and experiment is much more interesting than seeing somebody pull together stuff.

  • @umarbaig007
    @umarbaig007 5 лет назад

    your video deserve like not because what you done but for your hard work

  • @xaftabxofficial4438
    @xaftabxofficial4438 5 лет назад +53

    8:46 *T H I C C*

  • @anuradhapriyankara5226
    @anuradhapriyankara5226 6 лет назад

    Your video clearly describe how hard to get a project to work. Great video!!

  • @WayneJohnsonZastil
    @WayneJohnsonZastil 7 лет назад +49

    All flat earthers should build one of these roflmao!

    • @thethoughtemporium
      @thethoughtemporium  7 лет назад +46

      Wayne Johnson wait until we get GOES. we see a full globe. we want to coordinate with people around the world to build up a full 360 globe. the flat earthers are gonna be real mad. But that's for later ;)

    • @AaronEddieHYo
      @AaronEddieHYo 7 лет назад +1

      Results would be inconclusive. You'd need to be far away to prove the globe, or else you're just custom tailoring a composite image to fit the globe mask.

    • @SteveSteeleSoundSymphony
      @SteveSteeleSoundSymphony 6 лет назад +2

      Strange Faction They are not experiencing those temperature extremes like you imagine because the molecular density in and above the thermosphere is so little that the satellite might not encounter molecules for the transfer of heat to take place for long periods of time. In other words, something in space only encounters heat when it comes in contact with a molecule, and that is rare is space.

    • @SteveSteeleSoundSymphony
      @SteveSteeleSoundSymphony 6 лет назад

      FPV Angel What do Zero Gravity (parabolic) flights have to do with passengers in a commercial aircraft flying to different destinations around the world? And no unsupported claims please. You already made one in your last post by claiming “evidence would have to be faked as it always is”. I’m also curious to know what active field research you’re currently involved in concerning this subject.

    • @SteveSteeleSoundSymphony
      @SteveSteeleSoundSymphony 6 лет назад +1

      FPV Angel NASA and other entities only references a flat plane in instructional documentation because for those purposes including a curve isn’t relative to the documentation.
      And you’re point about an airplane having to fly AROUND a globe therefore putting people into a free fall. Ok, I see what and who I’m dealing with here. I’m going to assume you believe what you’re saying for a second (hard to believe that you would). Your statements are GIBBERISH. Like a five year old who’s brain is too young and experienced to understand logic and reason, not to mention science, math and the world around them, they might conjure up something like this in their thoughts. And quit trying to pretend your some sort of mystic with statements like “Oh, I find what has been hidden.” You’re like that guy who has a globe and an airplane and thinks that people who fly from New York to Australia would land upside down. Is that all the brain power you have? Look, our conversation is over.

  • @longshot789
    @longshot789 6 лет назад

    Sand some flats into your dowels and prerdrill them when you mount them to something flat like you did. Awesome project!

  • @EudesRJ
    @EudesRJ 5 лет назад +7

    6:51 a a wild guaraná aprears

    • @EkosFoxLeviathan
      @EkosFoxLeviathan 4 года назад +1

      Saudades do guaraná do Brasil :(

    • @EudesRJ
      @EudesRJ 4 года назад +1

      @@EkosFoxLeviathan Mais raro que o guaraná é o refrigerante "mineirinho" que é exclusivo de... Niterói/RJ ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @PY4SR
      @PY4SR 4 года назад

      Luiz Claudio Eudes Corrêa rsrs mate couro é que é mineiro... e é “guaraná” rsrsrs

  • @elradiuzi
    @elradiuzi 6 лет назад

    You wouldn't have learned any of this in school. Thanks man! Keep up the good work!

  • @woodyahh2110
    @woodyahh2110 5 лет назад +22

    Pull data from China's sat orbiting the moon
    That would be something to show

    • @Underliner07
      @Underliner07 5 лет назад

      Yes

    • @Underliner07
      @Underliner07 5 лет назад +2

      But you would need a bigger antenna for that

    • @fair1831
      @fair1831 4 года назад +1

      Hello,
      With the moon in mind,
      Where's a 24 live feed of the earth from the moon?
      There's no way.
      Where's unbroken dash cam or astronaut helmet footage of a real trip from earth's surface to space?
      Never.
      Search "satellites are on balloons". See videos.
      (Also interesting "ISS HOAX")
      "Nasa green screens" e.t.c also.
      Best wishes

    • @Underliner07
      @Underliner07 4 года назад

      Fair says who

    • @theodiscusgaming3909
      @theodiscusgaming3909 4 года назад +6

      @@fair1831 you think that balloons can move at 27000 km/h?

  • @gamestv4875
    @gamestv4875 5 лет назад +1

    Fantastic time to be alive.Most of the before taboo technology is available to everyone to do almost everything.

  • @WW5RM
    @WW5RM 6 лет назад +3

    Get your Ham license and talk on LEO Sats!

  • @zman97211
    @zman97211 6 лет назад

    Good way to straighten wire: Clamp one end in a vice, grab the other end with pliers (vice grips work well), then hammer a bit on the pliers. It stretches the wire a bit but pulls out kinks very well.

  • @edtexas5064
    @edtexas5064 5 лет назад +5

    I'm into ham radio and do digital work. Why didn''t this even cross my mind to try out???

  • @rideronthewhitehorse
    @rideronthewhitehorse 6 лет назад

    Cool reminds me of decoding satellite television back in the day... things to do when u r bored :)

  • @_daldoly_
    @_daldoly_ 5 лет назад +3

    I'm pretty sure you're the first people to take a selfie from space.

  • @TeamStevers
    @TeamStevers 6 лет назад

    Super fascinating. Thanks for supporting my entertainment!

  • @GlueTubber
    @GlueTubber 7 лет назад +114

    4 people were flat-Earthers...

    • @Jerre27
      @Jerre27 7 лет назад +1

      GlueTubber 9...

    • @dekutree5979
      @dekutree5979 7 лет назад +1

      GlueTubber 20...

    • @gorillaau
      @gorillaau 7 лет назад +6

      Deku Tree 19... what has a flat earther seen the light? There's hope yet.

    • @slam1385
      @slam1385 7 лет назад +5

      20 again... Think he didnt had the IQ to change his mind

    • @EnglishLaw
      @EnglishLaw 7 лет назад +9

      LOL - They do take the FE hoax seriously even though their slogan is that the Flat Earth Society has members from all over the GLOBE,

  • @barclaymatheson8240
    @barclaymatheson8240 3 года назад +1

    You don't need to build a fancy antenna. You just need to have an antenna that is tuned for your frequency correctly. There are inexpensive devices that can test what your antenna is tuned to

  • @emptyedits.
    @emptyedits. 2 года назад +1

    Bro this litteraly disproves flat earthers

  • @tonibarros757
    @tonibarros757 7 лет назад +39

    Where u guys from? To many references from Brazil, should I guess u guys are brasileiros porra?!

    • @thethoughtemporium
      @thethoughtemporium  7 лет назад +27

      Toni Barros nope, was just doing teaching there

    • @Cajuu
      @Cajuu 6 лет назад +2

      kkkkkk
      (thats a laugh)

    • @antonioaguiarfilho
      @antonioaguiarfilho 6 лет назад +8

      eu até comecei a achar que eram, mas aí ouvi SAUM PAOLO e percebi que eram gringos em terras tupiniquins.

    • @BattousaiHBr
      @BattousaiHBr 6 лет назад

      The Thought Emporium too good to be true, I guess.

    • @brazilchem
      @brazilchem 6 лет назад +1

      É, parece que vai ter de guardar sua bandeira.

  • @antilogism
    @antilogism 5 лет назад

    Fun stuff. I was pulling WEFAX in the early 90s with a fixed turnstile antenna, a GaAs fet amp (mounted of the roof with the antenna), a radio-shack scanner modded with a wider ceramic filter, its audio feed a PLL whose signal went to a Analog Devices ADC. The parallel bytes were went to the parallel printer port of an XT clone PC, a nibble at a time. You see, back then parallel ports were not bidirectional so I was using the control lines. Some C code fetched the bits and mapped to the the tack-sharp paper-white VGA (My first 'useful' Turbo C project!) and the images were no too bad. The Doppler effect shifts the frequency a bit so that is a bit of a challenge in reception and rendering the image. I had corrections for Doppler induced slope since my samples were taken using a watch-crystal. In hindsight I should have locked sampling to the signal shift.
    What's Amazing is that, through Google, that old turnstile antenna is still visible in satellite images (I just looked now). Still on the roof of my parent's house after more than 25 years! Maybe everyone thought it was a sculpture?

  • @ChadDidNothingWrong
    @ChadDidNothingWrong 5 лет назад +9

    But how do they orbit around the earth if it's so flat?
    This channel must be a NASA front-just like all my neighbors.
    sh*t where's my hat?!

    • @pablotrobo
      @pablotrobo 5 лет назад +1

      Did you take your meds? It's Tuesday all ready uncle Travis. Lol

  • @koningbolo4700
    @koningbolo4700 5 лет назад

    Straightening wires is done by clamping one end in a vice (mounted to a sort of solid base) and the other end clamped in a pair of vice grips. Pulling the wire Straightens it . If you hold a brick or other heavy object, slack the wire a bit (maybe 10% of the length you try to straighten and pull rapidly you put quite a bit of force on the wire and it will go very straight... Then you can cut your pieces...