Elad S2 is a much better receiver than Airspy etc. Much better, it can even be
compared to some of the more costly Winradios.
Regards Lars

To be honest, I was hoping to dedicate my Airspy R2 to weather satellite
duties.  As mentioned above, this is not looking good.  So any ideas and
comments to the items raised in this message will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
George

Turn off features. Shrink the display windows for spectrum and waterfall. Go to a lower resolution spectrum/waterfall. Set their update rate slower.

{^_^}

The best reception I have is with SDRC and the Elad S2. When I use

Hi George

Just a simple suggestion question : are all bandwidths set to the same value (35-40 kHz) ? Check by noise floor level. Must be the same.

You will probably get not much of a benefit with an preamp, unless if used for cable length compensation.

Most important is a good antenna, high placed (i build a helix) because of ground reflection nulls.

I used the dedicated receiver from EMGO of which i replaced the input circuit by a helical tuned circuit with a BF981.

The excellent selectivity got me rid of the all kind of interference from the airbands,

without notable loss of signal quality  (the helix add -6 dB of loss).

Gert

Greetings,

I am having a strange happening in trying to listen to the NOAA weather satellites.

The best reception I have is with SDRC and the Elad S2.  When I use my Airspy R2, HF+ discovery, or RSPdx with SDRC or their native software, there is basically no reception.  Is the Elad that much better than the other receivers.  I am surprised that I am seeing such a disparity in signal strengths.

My antenna is a circular dipole from Stellar designed for the FM broadcast band. I am using this very non-perfect antenna until I buy a QFH antenna and a preamp.

Any ideas as to why the other radios seem to be a disappointment?

Another question: The Orbitron/WXtoIMG software can create a list of upcoming passes for the satellites that the user wants to select (days into the future).  This then allows unattended operation for decoding upcoming passes.  Is there a similar capability within SDRC to create such a list, feed it to WXtoIMG, allowing unattended decoding?  In other words, this would eliminate the need for Orbitron and use the satellite module within SDRC to handle this function.

I very much like the satellite module that Simon has developed.  Being able to use it as described above would free up one program.

To be honest, I was hoping to dedicate my Airspy R2 to weather satellite duties.  As mentioned above, this is not looking good.  So any ideas and comments to the items raised in this message will be greatly appreciated.

Regards,
George