Which meant that nothing would stop me from giving it a try now. The 3 m loop looked quite reliable, so I started to assemble and mount it to a spot in parallel with the dish. Just to make sure that I would be able to use the dish rotor to move the aerial about and also control the elevation. The massive impact of data received made my R 7000 sing and swing, but honestly, I couldn't really interpret a single bit of it. I know some of the frequencies quite well, but here, they seem to offer a lot more.
Signals come in loud and clear, but the processing is quite tedious.
While an American reader of TELE-satellite International has provided me with some very intriguing software, no publisher around the world would be willing to invest in the needed hardware, since it costs a fortune. Living in the Netherlands Roermond, he has already provided the editors with a satellite receiver for 137 MHz as well as a suitable decoder for high resolution pictures. The Solution Half a bottle of Boccantino later, my mind hickupped a new idea. Naturally, it is officially only used as a remote sensing satellite, picking up weather data and related items. But then again, my friend James B. has always told me that most Russian satellites have some military side business running.