Sky Dish

[gareththegeek]

I have an old satellite (Sky) dish attached to my house. Is it possible to use this to pick up anything other than (encoded) sky programs?

[Earl]

It will work for Freesat

[maksutov]

Try typing ' little bitty telescope' into Google, you will be suprised or try this link http://www.aoc.nrao.edu/epo/teachers/ittybitty/procedure.html

Good luck

Bob White

[gareththegeek]

Haha, cool, thanks!

Looks interesting

[Neo_uk]

you could also use a sky dish in conjunction with a dongle a few bits of software licence to geosat linked to a pc to receive and decode high res satellite images of the earth.

total cost of software,dongle and licence about £180 but images are stunning !!.

chris.

[the_laughing_crow]

When you say stunning.... how good are they? Is there an example up on the web anywhere for the curious to have a gander at?

[Beulah]

I like that little radio telescope project. I might make one with one of my kids.

[DavidR]

When you say stunning.... how good are they? Is there an example up on the web anywhere for the curious to have a gander at?

I think he may be referring to EUMETSAT, a list of products available is here:

EUMETSAT Products

Data products are distributed via the EUMETCAST service on the Eurobird 9 satellite (requires approx 80cm dish in South UK). Some info here

List of equipment/instructions for setting up here

David Taylor's pages with software for sale to process and view the data is here

And finally the MSG-1 yahoo group here

My system is not setup yet (I don't even have the software or dongle/license yet), so I can't show you any examples but you may find some if you hunt around. There is so much data it just isn't available in full res online in any way as a continuous stream.

[Joe gray]

cool link

[billinforres]

The Sky man came today to give us a free upgrade to Sky+

While he was fitting the new dish to the house, I just happened to see this thread.

He left the old dish and LNB so I might just have a go at this...maybe!!!

Bill

[Uplooker]

Just read this thread, how cool is that!. What else can / do you use it for apart from getting HiDef images of the earth???

[Jake Bullit]

Cover it in tin foil,and make a solar cooker?

[kaz451]

Hi all

just read this

can anything better be made with a 1MTR round sat dish

[Altair40]

Hi there Kaz451,

A 1m dish should give a few more options - I may be getting a 2m but I'll start with a sky dish 'itty bitty' scope to get my head around the area.

I think the receiver is at least as important as the apeture of the dish.

If I can find Jupiter or the sun with the smaller set up, that would be mind blowing. I don't expect to bounce a radio beam off of the moon just yet :-)

You must be somebody else fed up with clouds!

I find the electronics aspects fascinating in it's own right...