Homemade quadrifilar helicoidal antenna – (get your own weather images!)

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Homemade quadrifilar helicoidal antenna – (get your own weather images!)

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Wow, here’s a homemade QuadriFilar Helix antenna for APT satellite reception. What can you do with this? Pull down weather images as satellites orbit the earth and transmit their images – here’s how it was made and some images snagged from NOAA18, NOAA17, NOAA15 and NOAA12 – Link.

Related:
Design and construction of quadrifilar helicoidal antennas – Link.

2 thoughts on “Homemade quadrifilar helicoidal antenna – (get your own weather images!)

  1. Scott says:

    It appears your suing hard wire for this setup. I would love to find the dimensions for this using 27.530 mhz…any ideas on sizing ?

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