// the rig
My receiving setup
Raspberry Pi 4B + QFH antenna
A Raspberry Pi 4B paired with a homemade QFH antenna, capturing weather satellite images from NOAA and Meteor-M2 as they pass overhead — recorded, decoded and archived without me lifting a finger.
- Board
- RPi 4B
- Antenna
- QFH
- Freq
- 137 MHz
- Pol.
- RHCP
QFH · Field deploy[ Signal path ]
Source
SKY
Antenna
QFH
Front-end
RTL-SDR
Decode
RPi 4B
Storage
SUPABASE
Serve
PERMI.DK
[ Components ]
How it works
03 MODULES01Antenna
Homemade QFH antenna
A Quadrifilar Helix — circularly polarized and hand-built for the job. It gives clear, reliable reception of the satellite downlink regardless of pass geometry.
02Compute
Raspberry Pi 4B
The heart of the station, running rnv3 to receive and decode passes, turning raw signal into finished weather maps.
03Storage
Pushed here as it happens
The station sends every decoded pass and its images to this site the moment they are ready — an event webhook straight from the Pi into Supabase, ready to serve.