NOAA weather satellite schedule?

[928GTS]

My friend had a site that told of when the NOAA satellites would next be passing over various timezones but I can't remember the URL. I want to coordinate when to listen in from my location in the Eastern Standard Time Zone.

[sfdf]

found this through Google.
http://noaasis.noaa.gov/NOAASIS/ml/faqs.html#faq5

5) When do the NOAA satellites pass over my area?
There are at least three web sites that interactively show the current location of the satellites, and what they are viewing. Try the NASA JTrack site, Heavens-Above in Germany, or the Earth Viewer.

Hope this is what you looking for.

[burts]

http://www.wxtoimg.com/ this program does it all my first time at reception of weather satellites i just used my AR8200 homebrew discone in the loft and that old rg58 coax 3.5 ear phone jack plug ear phone out of scanner into mic in pc it was not long befor i had a not to bad picture of the uk from a noaa satellite ,not all handheld scanners will work but its worth a go with nothing to lose

from burt
picture to follow

[burts]

http://www.wxtoimg.com/ with picture from today

[bagmouse7]

You can check out my WXsat pictures here:
http://barmettler.dyndns.org/wxtoimg/
Some are good and some not so good. Some of the better ones are about halfway down the page.
The picture quality is directly related to how high a pass the bird is making. Pretty cool in any case.
WXSat builds the page, and I added the "Satellite Positions" image using a link to Orbotron running on the same machine that runs WXtoImg.
I am using a AR5000 receiver, and an National RF WX-137QA antenna:
http://www.nationalrf.com/satellite-tenna.htm

[burts]

good pictures you must be getting a fairly good signal to color in the pictures as well as you have ,i have tryed on some of mine and the info is not there to color correctly but i will be working on an antenna so maybe i can sort it out

from burt
ps i read that the satellites only transmitt with 5 w of power

[bagmouse7]

The antenna makes all the difference. A dedicated satellite antenna (either a helix or a turnstile) dramatically improves the signal and will let you hear the signal for much longer.
Wxtoimg is also great software for putting the picture together in many different formats.