The SaveItForParts guy inspired me to get SDR for APT, never knew that was even possible. Been watching your vids of LRPT and HRPT and needing to get a dish cause that is bs cool. Now you have gone blown my mind, this is nonsense. I can get my own sat images of the sun from my own backyard!? GTFOOH! Dish acquisition this week.

Derek you need motorize that dish

We need an international collab between you and @saveitforparts

@dereksgc though the subjects are not really my general field of interest, I am just a curious guy and I stumbled upon this video of yours. Loved it and what and how you do it. Went to like the video as I tend to do when I appreciate content,saw how low the likes were even though you do have quite a bit of subscribers. Tht just doesn't sit right with me. So I went to like each of your uploads and subscribed. Even went on to hang on to most videos as they were rather good in my view (pun intended) love it in all ways and the sincerity is truly appreciated. Will open the "all video's" on autoplay so you'll get full views as I believe it might help with the algorithm. Love the vibe and info and just general curiosity. Best of luck to you

Haha funny to see this video pop up, I tried to "see" it through NOAA as well but didn't manage. Nice to see you had more success!

i hoped that someone would do this and here we are, big props to you!!

You're in a movie frenzy! Keep it up

I was hoping to get NOAA-15 and NOAA-18 from the middle of indiana with eclipse information on the vhf transmissions, but they went over head too early for me. Glad to see someone else tried to get data too.

So cool. Btw Hinode is pronounced _Hee_ - _No_ - _De_ which mean sunrise in Japanese

You could try tying making the counterweight lighter and then tie it with some rope to hold the dish at some elevation that you control by pulling or feeding the rope. This is a very cool dish, I am repurposing a Ku band dish for some radio experiments too, so ill steal the counterweight idea :)

Great job my friend ! very impressed with your work i didn't know there were so many satellites you could pick up ,i read some jut transmit when close to their ground station be interested in what can be picked up depending where you live we know about the noaas and meteors and geos but any thing else most of us a clueless there are a lot of satellites but the ones that apart from mentioned we would not have an idea what to look for if you do a video on satellites worth looking for would be great i live in Melbourne Australia

Off the hat, Derek! Comparing it with the video short on the ESA channel from the same sat I suspect that either ESA mirrored it or could it be the decoding software is missing some post processing/interpretation of data?

So cool

Also seeing your work on the big dish are you planning on making it motorised ? i know its all money and thus hard if you don't have it but this one really could do with at least an elevation control and make your hobby easier ...its on my mind as well i was given 2 drive way dc geared Gate openers they are very strong and fast enough for all this work if u ever come across them or similar idea ,i am sure you have been thinking about it,,,,any case watch your head that dish is a killer ; 0 ) BTW an idea on the cheap you could try if you can get your hands on cord less drills and you use a long threaded bolt in the drill and 2 nuts one on the dish other on the mount as your drill turns it should move your dish ...these drills are dc you should be able to control them first at least by just switching and move onto PC control , i would look for second hand where the batteries are useless and no one wants it just hook a power supply up to it ,the Drill would have to be bracket mounted on the dish mount once you want it permanent or its going to turn also .

Please make a comparison of signal strength between dish and WiFi antennas.

Can you make a tutorial how to receive Hinode and Proba?

спасибо

construction hat next time

Hi Derek, i really love you vivid enthusiasm of every video.We share the same hobby, im a radioham since 1990, i work both QO-100 narrow band and wide band.I use a 180cm and 120cm pf dishes wich i have permanently pointed to QO-100. Another 180cm dish is automatically moved by a 0,2º res Spid HR rotor controller (recomended) ,wich i builded up for tracking the broadcasted live video from ISS (S band ) , but never finished this project...you motivated me and i will start where i left it : Buiding the S band Helix antenna... Keep doing the great job and get your Hamradio licence in use....it would be great to have a contact with you ... Tom, EA6WQ / KE0KQT