r/amateursatellites

Hello everyone, I recently bought myself a Blog V4 off amazon, but when it arrived I was unable to locate it in zadig, I attempted swapping the dlls out to no effect so I started trying to figure out if it was being detected by USB at all. It hasn't shown up in device manager or when using pnputil, I tested it on all my USB slots and a seperate machine (thinkpad) and couldn't get it to be detected in any way at all. Eventually I got a live Linux distro and ran sudo dmesg -w and confirmed that USB devices would get logged in the terminal. The Blog V4 had no logs whatsoever when plugged in or removed, it's like the PC didn't even know it existed.

I've started the return process but does anyone have any last ditch ideas?

Wow im suprised that focusing against window frame well tuned antenna (made of 490mhz lora) actually worked and i got 2-3db signal from that!

Hello everyone.

I made a satellite communication simulator (VSA) that simulates the satellite signal transmit/receive environment, and a companion wargame website, mrradio.kr .

I made it because I'm interested in the subject but didn't have enough money or space to buy and set up the necessary hardware (I'm a graduate student).

The simulator does simplify environmental factors and doesn't include all RF hardware, but I think it's enough to get started and learn the basics. You can download it from mrradio.kr/download (sign-up needed).

I recommend you to use VSA with mrradio.kr . I gamified the transmitting/receiving process and made CTF-style hacking challenges where you can try to receive and decode simulated satellite signals.

I hope you guys like it and would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.

Hello! I'm trying to modify this 17.7 dBi Wifi Antenna to work with GOES, so far all I've done was add a rubber spacer of about 1.5cm in length(my local hardware store doesn't have a longer screw for this), and flip the secondary reflector around. So far my only success is receiving a frequency of 1593.1 MHz, and with 2 months spent on this project, I thought I should reach out to you guys for help. I'm sorry in advance, I'm still very new to this hobby, only success I've had was receiving a signal from Meteor M2-2, which didn't amount to anything since it was decommissioned. Thank you guys in advance! You're the best!

Here's the dish I purchased: https://ebay.us/m/uxK5gx

Also please let me know if there's another thing I should change, or if I should get another dish all together, I'm trying to save money for more hardware anyways, so any form of guidance is welcome!

METEOR-M N2-4 2026/05/18 22:11 UTC Nooelec NEsdr v5, diy QFH, Satdump

Still working on the adapter to mount it to the hacked tailgator I'm using as my motion platform, but once I do, it should be a pretty good system.

321 composite.

From Spain this morning

So I finished creating it and doing all the instruction manuals and I would be interested in what people think about it.

https://makerworld.com/en/models/2801596-satellite-rotator-ground-station-full-build

Finally managed to receive a picture, using PlutoSDR with the SawBird+ NOAA and a DIY V dipole. Thanks to the person that saw my last post and recommended that I capture a daytime pass, I was wondering why I only received noise :P