The easiest way to skyrocket your YouTube subscribers
Get Free YouTube Subscribers, Views and Likes

Building a quadrifilar helix antenna (QFH) for NOAA satellite reception with an RTL-SDR

Follow
Jim Haslett

So you've got an SDR, and want to try something new? How about weather satellite image reception? Sounds pretty cool, but that little antenna that came with your SDR isn't quite cutting it.

In this video, I build a QFA antenna from copper wire, a bit of coax, and a piece of drain pipe.

Plans used for this build: http://metsat.gogan.org/ant_qha.htm
It was brought to my attention that one of the links on the plans page is broken, but I found that the missing zip file can be downloaded from here: https://web.archive.org/web/200604220...

Followup video with actual results:    • QFH Antenna Results  NOAA 19 satelli...  

posted by dsp4oex