If the Earth was flat, cats would have already pushed everything off the edge.

"Try to learn something every day." Words to live by.

Absolutely love this guy. Giving me the old cody's lab vibes

Before I found this channel I never even knew it was possible to just set up an antennae and listen to satellites. Even though google earth in VR exists this is still interesting stuff!

I am really impressed that you were able to get the higher frequency signal captured! Also huge props to you for churning out so much content. It isn't an easy job and I think I've gathered it isn't your day job, either. I'm glad you are able to make time to have fun and also make the effort to edit and share it with us. Here's to your channel continuing to grow, man. 🎉🎉

You should never feel the need to justify why you are doing this. It's awesome and you have so many subscribers and viewers for a reason.

Back in mid 80's I had a Radio Shack Color Computer3. I came across a program in Rainbow magizine called " WEFAX " Weather facsmile. I had to buy a shortwave radio to pick up the signals. I forget which sat it was but it scanned one line at a time and filled the screen after 12 minutes. Was so cool then to be able to do that.

Something to know about LNAs. They work best when they're right up at the feed horn. Having more than 10-15cm of cable between the horn and the LNA turns your LNA into a kinda-ho-hum LNA. Now, in practice, this may not matter that much if you're looking at signals that are fairly strong, into a dish that's fairly large. But it's something to keep in mind.

My question is, what's the point of people asking "what's the point of doing these things"? It seems self-evident to me, and that's a terrible question they're asking. This channel is just awesome!

I think the thumbnail from the first video was a big reason as to why it did so well. It’s fantastic for getting peoples attention and interest. Plus the title of course, with Russia being such a topic at the moment.

Images from these satellites are often used by russian cargo ships in Arctic to monitor ice fields during navigation season. Unlike weather, you can't get that information from other sources rather than satellite. Very useful.

You may be stumbling your way through these things, But your light years ahead of me! Great video...keep up the good work.

Love to see more people using the RPi for radio stuff! Looks like the foundation is ramping up production as many stores seem to have them in stock now. Thanks for another fun and interesting video!

This has quickly become my new favorite channel, and I’m now eyeing various scraps around the house for an antenna. 😂

Dude you are doing so well. This stuff is so fun to watch. I got a sdr myself and have been playing along at home. Keep it up eh.

I love the extra info you provided in the description for others to try this as well

The radio and satellite videos are always inspiring. My current challenge is to capture signals like that from my small apartment window. It's tough, but also fun!

We don't care if the Flearfers are triggered. Hell at sometime or another "Those Kind of People" will forget to breathe. Thanks for another awesome vid!!

Don't stop enjoying your hobby. We love & appreciate you! Well done.

You don't have to explain your reason for a hobby. It's something you like doing -- that's what a hobby is. Some people like to color, some people like to paint, sew, crochet, and so on. I personally enjoy doing a lot of the radio / antenna experiments that you do -- hence I found your channel -- and I also love audio equipment, old computer stuff, SBCs, etc etc etc. It's curiosity about what's out there and how things work -- that's what drives people like you and me and your viewing audience. Nope - you don't have to explain it to us - we get it :)

Great series! I'm an Extra class ham and have tried working V/U satellites and that seemed very tricky. Receiving microwave HRPT signals from weather satellites is even trickier in my mind, so to get any usable signal at all you're doing very well indeed. I love your attitude and your approach - the biggest hurdle for me is always just getting out there and trying it when I'm not sure it's going to work. Keep it coming!!

Anyone asking "What's the point?" is clearly not the target audience for this channel. Love the content!

The camera that kind of scans the earth is Pushbroom Scanner (Pushbroom Camera). You can find it on wikipedia and the scanner scans like earth in lines so thats why sometimes you have black lines in your picture, its because your signal got smaller and thats why the SatDump (and also any other app) couldnt really read what was in that audio you listened to. And the options you tried after, other and other they can like set sensitivity so you can see the image behind the black lines, thats because its smaller quality, by default SatDump has parameters and thats why other parameters helped you get a nice picture.. Keep it up :)

You've always got a good attitude man. Keeps me coming back.

Awesome tech and awesome content. Not only are you learning all about this but you’re helping countless others learn from your experience!

Dude you made a MEGA WORK! People who are doings stuff like people who "do" stuff. Great Job man!

Well done with the views on your previous video!!!! I only discovered your channel this week thanks to that video ❤

I could listen to you for hours, especially on this subject! Greetings from Germany

I love the way you 'hack' stuff to try and get it to work. You teach a valuable lesson in perseverance. Keep up the awesome work!

I'm sure these are a ton of work to make, but they are so fun. I love watching your videos. Your positive personality really shines through as well. !

I have been watching your videos for a long time now. I absolutely LOVE your non professional approach to everything you do.. Don't ever change that! I have learned a lot with you along your journeys..

Cool video! I remember doing this with my dad. Never received much from Russian sats, but NOAA worked well. George, M1GEO!

Heya Gabe, consider this a friendly nudge to get going on that motorized mount, future you will be glad to have it around and working. Loving the satellite stuff. Glad you're having fun :)

Another great video! I arrived a couple of weeks ago (courtesy the algorithm) and I'm glad I did. I find incredible value in being "scrappy" and being able to just throw something together to accomplish a goal. Your Sandland project is really cool too 😎 Don't let negative comments sway your mood, you're doing it right!

I love the cat that shows up in the right monitor's reflection at 5:20

One of the best channels on youtube 👍👍👍👍👍

The stuff you do is very awesome and love that you try to link everything you use so people can learn and use it too!

There are few better feelings than that "EUREKA" moment when you put something like this together and it works.

10:20 You can install a plastic plate in a linear converter, to receive a signal in circular polarization. It must be installed at an angle of 45 degrees relative to the pin in the converter.

Great video. I am glad this channel popped up on my KZfaq recommendations. Love the honest, narrative, ...almost conversational style 👍

“What’s the point?” It’s because we want to and because we can. Great experimenting, keep up the good work!!

This channel is my favorite now

bro if i can say one thing to you...stop selling yourself short my man. this is all new knowledge to me and awesome to add to my library of interesting things. your one clever cookie bro, got yourself a new sub cheers.

Excellent videos! One tweak to consider is to mount the LNA directly onto the feedhorn using the minimum amount of rigid coupling adapter you can. Try to avoid any coax between the horn and LNA. It's fairly astounding how much loss you get in small diameter coax. If you're at threshold, that can bring you back to functional.

My new favorite channel on youtube! Thank you from a brand new subscriber.

It's all about that "I'll be damned!" moment.

Can't tell you how excited I was to see your newest vid pop up on my feed. Great stuff!

Another brilliant video Gabe, always good to learn something new and get enjoyment out it too, especially if there’s some random duck tape involved too! Looking forward to seeing more of your projects soon. Best wishes

The secret to soldering cheap chinese PCBs and parts is to brush a good RA flux everywhere you want wetted by solder. My soldering "skills" increased a lot when I got a bottle of MG 835 and a nail polish bottle. If a joint looks ugly, more flux and reflow usually fixes them.

I loved the cat peering into the fish tank in the background at around the 5:30 mark. Such a cat thing to do.

This episode had me laughing the most. Love the subtle humor

No need to justify your hobby! It’s our benefit that you show this stuff, really interesting

I really enjoyed your wrap-up talk at the end. Keep it up. You're putting out some great content! I've been a ham since the mid-90s and I've listened to easysats as they flew by overhead, but I've never been able to complete a QSO. Your channel is bringing back some fun old memories for sure, and your attitude about it all is top notch. Well done!

I really enjoy your content, you should do a showcase about specific satts....theory craft about interesting aspects, then try to talk/listen to it and see what you get. I think that'd be a cool format

haha heyy, i love your videos.. did people really ask u why u do this? i think its so obvious and i love that u do it, i never had a clue how communication with space satellites is working. this stuff is so fascinating, thank you for letting us all know kind sir :)

This is amazing! I love your videos; keep doing this stuff.

Despite any comments you may have had, I love all the stuff I have seen so far. Keep it coming. I find it very interesting just as you do.

Ha! caught it at 4 views. love the videos man!!!

And here's another fine hobby you got'n me into 🙂

Great work and follow up. Very cool!

It's interesting to think of someone living "off grid" using satellites as an important datapoint. Like the informational equivalent of navigating by stars.

Was hoping to see a follow up!

That's already more than 4 views x) (Thanks for the follow up !)

Love the channel thanks for putting in the effort and sharing.

Bro you are a kindred soul

Can't get much more authentic to the channel than using a tin can duct taped onto a dish to receive data. Good luck with getting a motorized dish in the future!

Here we go! You know 👍

I connect my RTL-SDR directly to the antenna. Then I use USB extension cables. Less current but the receivers don't take much. Works for my ADSB stuff.

If this video has taught me something, it's that Roscosmos satelites are basically craftmanship put together with ductape.

Nice video and nice hobby ! I'm currently using a SDR to track planes, and youtube suggested me your video : what about trackin satellites !! That must be fun, but requires a bit more hardware and time. Thank you for sharing, that's inspiring

I am one of the 4 viewers but several thousands of us. Why doing this, because it is fun and it prevent getting bored. A rule of experimenters is if there is not silver tape, wood part , cardboard or a random piece of scrap metal, it is not a proper work, and if you try to remove it, it does not work anymore, even if it seems superfluous and it does nothing useful. I speak of experience.

Idk how this all works but it is just so fascinating

Hey man. Hope you're doing well. Enjoyed the video.

Love your t-shirt!! V is for vengeance!!!

Hey brother much respect for defending your hobbies and being the village alderman of our corner of the internet. Just wanted to let you know I've been rewatching your sandland videos to introduce my missus to your stuff; she's an occupational hygienist (weird title but she's essentially a health and safety expert) and she's a bit worried about your mask fit. Don't want you getting silicosis or anything so get a good fitting one! Also I know you're a humble guy but don't pull yourself down on these videos you're much more knowledgeable than most of us are.

I enjoy learning with you.

Experimentation is the point of the hobby. I might buy one of those $6 antennas and see if I can get anything on the HackRF. Lol

Can't wait to see the Cyberdeck 2 build!

How am I just now finding this channel?! ALL HAIL ALGORITHMO!! Sub'd!

I chuckled at the "what's the point?" bit. - Ohhhh the many points! I for one just think it's good to know how to do things analog or by hand. Just knowing how stuff works in general. 👍

Viewer #3 here. Pretty cool stuff 👍

Awesome video! Years ago I downloaded a few images from Russian weather satellites. I Can't remember which Meteor M it was (M2 etc). I did it indoors, and all I had (all I still have) was a television "rabbit ears" antenna, connected to a little portable HDTV indoor/outdoor antenna (The combination seems to work nicely). It was time consuming getting through all the steps, but finally got a few images. LOTS of errors, but it was "proof of concept" more than anything. The point is, you don't need much, no fancy equipment to have fun with SDR. I've downloaded images from the ISS, NOAA/Russian Satellites, Recently listened in to an ISS Ham Radio "fly-over" contact with a local High School (with Astronaut Dr. Josh Cassada, I have a KZfaq video on it). I can decode medical pager info (using PDW Paging Decoder Software) and SO much more!

Well said explanation on the hobby at the end and why you do it 🍻

I think with an array of four of those helicals you can ditch the parabolic entirely

I absolutely enjoyed and learned from this video.

new fan here, the last russian satelite episode was my first episode so i guess i have a lot of old content to catch up on. i dont know what you should do next but i love the satelite stuff. recently moved but i cant wait to try more projects once i get setup

Thanks for the followup! The first video brought me to your channel.

“Why do you do this?”, This where they ask you? Digging tunnels✅, sandbox boat✅, this🤯

Nice work, and cool project

Love the longer vids yo

You're a legend

The sentence "I was poking around in my satellite junk"

Some people go fishing, We go hunting for satellites

Russian weather satellites love my SoundCloud playlist

This whole satellite 🛰 thing could really turn into a never ending rabbit hole.... not that that's a bad thing. I have the idea to stick an antenna on a drone that can stay aloft for the satellite's 15 minute pass and fly the drone up a few hundred feet and see if it can record a better signal. I don't know why but it just seems like fun. Anywho, man I'm glad I found your channel.

Thanks for sharing. Charles

Maon Oh Man, you are the person for this- An old OceanGate sub was for sale! the broker who tried to sell it for years has it!

It's important that the videos show really bad soldering and everything stuck together with Duct Tape yet it still works. If it was all immaculate then the rest of us would think we could never do it and get despondent and give up and do another hobby.

Fantastic channel thanks for having something interesting to watch

Wonderful video