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Build Your Own Satellite Ground Station
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."
Doesn't the government have one of these do-it-yourself weather baloons?
There's a Mercedes gap too. I want one and can't afford one, but it's not government's job to do anything about it.
I don't know about useable, looks pretty crappy to me. Since it'll probably go down pretty fast once the /. effect kicks in, you'll have to take my word for it... but it's pretty bad. What's wrong with weather.com's sattilite feed, exactly?
I would of FUCKED HER IN THE ASS and drank the beer.
How can open source help this noble goal?
By having a circle jerk with a bunch of pimply faced losers around some faded D&D map drawn out on graph paper?
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