This is my way of doing it and is one of the many ways to do it. Howto windows rtl based aptmeteor satellite weather. There is a plugin for sdr sharp that now does a lot of this process for you and is all together a lot quicker. As you say, and from the diagnostics youve provided which helped, files in local time is what the program currently expects, and what the lrpt decoder for windows produces. Again you will recognise the elements which can be set by the automatic running of the meteorgis. Scrambler seems to be working perfectly, spreading errors over few seconds and helping viterbi to reconstruct more frames. Courtesy of happysat guide to setup meteor mn2n22 with lrpt decoder and meteorgis. Video decoder for windows media player in windows 10. The signal is received by a sdrplay rsp2 and processed on a pc with usasatcoms hrpt decoder software, which is available for purchase. Prebuilt binary of the software for windows, linux raspberry pi and macos are available at. Lrpt images are broadcast as a digital signal with an image resolution 12 times greater than analog noaa apt signals. If you already have other software such as wxsat or wxtoimg working satisfactorily on your pc, the recording level should prove satisfactory for aptdecoder and your images should show a full range of tones. Downlink lrpt format changed and its not 100% according to metop lrpt specification.
Windows rtl based apt polar weather satellite station. This format is of higher resolution that the older apt format. Output images are automatically saved as jpg or bmp in the same directory as the input image. Video decoder for windows media player in windows 10 i am looking for a video decoder that will work with windows media player in windows 10. Wefax programs for weather fax decoding category is a curation of 18 web resources on, wxwarn weather software, meteofax32, multipsk. I recently got a new pc running windows 10, and try as i might, i cant get it to work. The particular advantage of this software is that it is completely free. Use raydels gnuradio soft symbol decoder to capture the data stream from the satellite and decode to a format that olegs image processing program can understand. Receiving meteor mn2 weather satellite jottings on amateur. Decoding meteorm n2 lrpt satellite weather images trips. Dvd decoder for windows 7 media player microsoft community. Today i want to talk about how you can receive a radio signal from a russian weather satellite, meteorm2, in the form of the lrpt signal lrpt stands for low rate picture transmission and decode it into a weather image.
A portable decoder for meteor m weather satellite lrpt signal. Tune in the the satellite frequency, and check off demodulator. Once a lock is achieved the write counter will start pouring out mbs to a. The soviet union took the world by surprise when it sent its sputnik satellite into low earth orbit way back in 1957. A new meteor m lrpt image decoder for windows, linux.
This version of lrptdecoder will work with both meteor mn2 and meteor mn22. Use a satellite prdecition software such a gpredict to determine when meteror m2 is in radio range of your loacation. A free hrpt decoder, that is based on the grnoaa usrp example, for anyone that wants to get started with weather images on lband. Satellite emitters monitored in the 6 to 400 mhz band. The data stream is then decoded into 3 channels of color by a standalone program meteor mno2 lrpt analizer launched at aos. Noaa apt decoding here is a basic guide to getting started with noaa apt imagery. This text simply contains detailed info on how to remove rtl sdr program complex 2. This can take some time depending on the speed of your computer.
Combined community codec pack cccp is a simple playback pack for windows with the goal of supporting the majority of video formats in use today. Open lrpt offline decoder, select 72k and choose the. The audio data is sent over this link and when the signal is locked on, the lrpt decoding software does its magic. Decoding meteorm n2 lrpt satellite weather images trips in tech. Direwolf is a software encoder decoder for aprs ax. Windows develop internetsocketnetwork game program.
Manage windows just like in a real operating system. This software decoder appears to be an excellent choice for those people who want to perform their reception and. Ini file is also rewritten by the meteorgis program, so i can supply a zipped copy of my own. A subreddit for the lowcost software defined radio sdr community. Lrpt the lrpt decoder for gnuradio to decode the lrpt data from satellite. Grabbing better images from a newer russian satellite. Minimalist html5 page responsive page layout using html5 tags. For the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. Radioraft apt decoder aptdecoder is a free software for recording and decoding signals transmitted by noaa poes apt enabled weather satellites. Resulting in an s file, which is then decoded by the lrpt decoder within the tools set archive. Does anyone have a copy of olegs lrpt offline decoder.
Courtesy of happysat guide to setup meteor mn2n22 with lrptdecoder and meteorgis. Nov 07, 2015 for the love of physics walter lewin may 16, 2011 duration. Use this program to broadcast data via tcpip locally via tcp to a graphical radar program such as virtual radar server, planeplotter or adsbscope. A new meteor m lrpt image decoder for windows, linux, macos. The thermal components rely on you saving a 125 image from the decoder program. Radio lab receiving satellite imagery dodge m37 and. Binaries for windows, linux, raspberry pi and macos x are available at orbides. If youd like to try your hand at decoding the test signal a new lrpt decoder was recently published in an article over on the rtlsdr blog with an updated decoder that happens to. When the window pops up, click the button that says 72k and open the. Windowsrtl based apt polar weather satellite station. Lrpt reception page which gives some hints on using meteorgis. The lrpt decoder generates a list of ground control points.
An example lrpt image received with an rtlsdr from meteor2 m2. Note 1 windows 7 users must make sure that they have microsofts dot net. The windows xp video decoder checkup utility helps you determine if an mpeg2 video decoder also called a dvd decoder is installed on your windows xp computer and whether or not the decoder is compatible with windows media player 10 and windows xp media center edition. Lrpt the lrpt decoder for gnuradio to decode the l dssz. Note 1 windows 7 users must make sure that they have microsofts dot net 4. Disclaimer this page is not a piece of advice to remove rtl sdr program complex 2. The program can remove the edge compression present in the raw scan data from the meteorm n2 lrpt data, create a vegetation image, thermal image, and a falsecolour image. Search results for lrpt decoder analizer snapfiles.
Together with an rtlsdr and 7 mhz satellite antenna, these programs are used to receive, track, demodulate and decode meteor m satellite signals into live weather satellite images. Format of actual frames is still same, so links below are still relevant. Big giant list of free rtlsdr software android apps for pilots. Listed under the softwareweather and fax category that is about weather fax software. The reason i want to run it is because after a weeks endeavour fighting a possible infection, windows finally caught a trojan and after cleaning it up, i ran sfc scannow on windows, which found and repaired a mega list of corruptedmissingetc. Apt decoder is a another featureladen program that decodes noaa data in realtime, saving the raw data as wav files and processing them both monochrome and colour composite images. Cccp is a simple playback pack for windows with the goal of supporting the majority of video formats in use today. Although the signal traveled at least 850 km from its antenna to your receiver, with a suitable antenna, you can receive the signal quite easily. You can feed the program with a image bmp or jpg named on the commandline, or use draganddrop from file explorer onto the open program, or use the fileopen menu.
Lrpt low resolution picture transmission external demodulatordecoders. It is run on a ntbased version of window ham fax hamfax is an application for sending and receiving facsimiles in amateur radio and for receiving public facsimile broadcasts like weather maps. This guide is made for windows, but im pretty sure you can do this on linux too with the help of wine. Big giant list of free rtlsdr software android apps for. Note 2 these suites will not run on the older windows xp operating system. Sox is crossplatform and is available for many operating systems windows, linux, macos x, etc. Weather satellite lrpt images from meteorm n2 location. Example ini configuration files for other modes are attached in the archive. Sep 17, 2018 meteorm2 lrpt is transmitted with a 5 watts. Notice that the name of the ini file changed so that depending on which batch file is run, you use a different config. Today i want to talk about how you can receive a radio signal from a russian weather satellite, meteorm2, in the form of the lrpt signal lrpt stands for low rate picture transmission and. Decoding meteorm n2 lrpt satellite weather images trips in.
Receiving russians satellite weather image, from space. Problems with country overlay in lrptimageprocessor. The russians recently 2014 launched the second in the line of meteor m weather satellites. What is meteorm2 satellite meteorm2 actually named as meteorm n2, is a polarorbiting weather satellite.
If i remember correctly it has some details on apt. Download windows xp video decoder checkup utility from. Raydels instructions and a link to the gnuradio program are here, note that this document covers several different method of receiving and decoding the signal. The noted message is only displayed for the offline command prompt, oddly enough. This page is not a piece of advice to remove rtl sdr program complex 2.
Amigos statistic set of plugins for satellite reception. A portable decoder for meteor m weather satellite lrpt. Sigmira is best known for its support for decoding the japanese navy slot machine signal and stanag4285 signals. Lrpt low rate picture transmission 2, with the main purpose of improving the quality, quantity and availability of meteorological data from direct broadcast meteorological satellites. I have power dvd 10 and vlc installed on my computer, but they both do not seem to be compatible with the windows 10 version of wmp. The lrpt protocol has a data rate of 144 kbits and by using qpsk modulation 2 bitspersymbol it will result of 72 kbaud qpsk signal. The lrpt decoder software can now add approximate country boundaries to your image. For meteor the qpsk demodulator plugin is also required to demodulate meteors qpskoqpsk data stream. Meteor m is a class of russian weather satellites that transmit live weather images of the earth as they pass over your location. Search results for lrpt decoder analizer please type in the keywords that best describe the software you are searching for. The reason i say this is becouse, lrpt will create additional files during the process. Meteor mn2 transmits low rate picture transmission format pictures round the clock on 7. The sdr plugin way of doing it is less robust as ive compared both methods multiple times but the time savings are probably worth it. Jul 08, 2019 if youd like to try your hand at decoding the test signal a new lrpt decoder was recently published in an article over on the rtlsdr blog with an updated decoder.
Lrpt image processor for meteorm n2 data satsignal. To save computation time and file size, only each tenth line and tenth pixel are processed. These 3 color channels are then combined and saved as an image bmp or jpeg. Andrew seems to be very interested in decoding images from sattelites in general, it worth trying to email him directly. Decoding meteor satellites with rsp receivers and sdr. Vista business, or windows vista enterprise, you can enhance your dvd playback experience by purchasing one of the dvd decoder packs listed below. As a macos user, i used a vmware windows virtual machine to run the program, but the result was a crappy image full of missing frames. The signal is received by a sdrplay rsp2 and processed on a pc with usa satcoms hrpt decoder software, which is available for purchase. Also, english isnt my first language, please tell me in the comments when i made a mistake or when im unclear about something. Lrpt direct broadcast service description lrpt is a digital broadcast transmission system designed to provide data and images from polarorbiting weather. Sigmira windowslinux free ham digital mode decoder sigmira is a free software program that is capable of decoding a wide range of ham radio signals. Dvd decoder for windows 7 media player im getting a window up, when i try to play a dvd with the windows media player sayingcompatiable dvd decoder is not installed on my computer, where can i get a decoder and what must i do to install it. Otherwise, wait until a satellite image is forming and click tools recording control.