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The antenna will be designed to capture the operating frequencies of NOAA and Russian Meteor satellites in addition the antenna has to work with the receiver. There are two common solutions to this problem, the crossed dipole and the quadrifilar helix (QFH) antenna. The signals from the NOAA weather satellites are transmitted with right-hand circular polarization.

The objective is to get weather images broadcasted by American NOAA and Russian Meteor satellites for which, the development of system composed of an antenna with a very high gain, and a receiver capable of processing signals in the range of 137 MHz will be required. The development, design, and construction of a fully functional home weather satellite receiver station will be attempted. This project was completed for my Senior Design Project along with two other members. In addition, an antenna for the 137 MHz range had to be designed. This home weather satellite receiver is a system of an FM receiver tunable to NOAA weather satellite frequencies (137 to 138 MHz) interfaced with a PC.

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