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Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station

Posted by michael on from the who-needs-the-weather-channel dept.

kavachameleon writes "A site called Hobby Space has this article at which there are instructions on how you can build your own satellite weather station! Something I think all of us have wanted to do at one point or another, this site tells us all how to "hack" into the weather satellites and get back usable pictures using our PCs and an AM antenna. There are more instructions for getting geostationary images."

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  1. Re:Hacking Satellites? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They aren't hacking satellites. They are just receiving signals... unencoded ones at that.

    The only way 'hack' applies to this article is that it's kind of neat.

  2. Re:Hacking Satellites? by Xzzy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    > Is it really worth hacking a damn weather
    > satellite when you can turn on any news station

    no, but it's fun.

    Dorking around with technology is the entire point of being a geek. If you have to question why these people shouldn't have done this, I question your geektitude. ;)

    It's like climbing a mountain.. just do it because it's there.