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title: "The Hardware Setup - GOES Satellite Hunt | Lets Hack It"
description: "Escrito por Lucas Teske em 19 Fevereiro 2017 Parte de GOES Satellite Hunt Visão geral do projeto → So first things first. What dish should I get? I found some people in twitter ( More specific @USASatcom, @uhf_satcom and just for historic reasons: https://twitter.com/lucasteske/status/766484223431770112 ) that did Satellite Receiving and..."
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Escrito por Lucas Teske   
em 19 Fevereiro 2017

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# So first things first. What dish should I get?

I found some people in twitter ( More specific [@USASatcom](https://twitter.com/usa_satcom), [@uhf\_satcom](https://twitter.com/uhf_satcom) and just for historic reasons: [https://twitter.com/lucasteske/status/766484223431770112](https://twitter.com/lucasteske/status/766484223431770112) ) that did Satellite Receiving and more specifically USASatcom also did GOES receiving. And from time to time posted pictures like this:

![False-color satellite view of Earth showing swirling clouds and atmospheric patterns.](/assets/goes-satellite-hunt/CuNOecSXgAA2APq.jpg)

And then I found the IRC Channel called #hearsat in server StarChat ( irc.starchat.net ). So a lot of people actually helped me by giving me the information I need to take a decision over which dish antenna should I buy. They were suggesting a 1.2m offset dish (same time of the Sky, Claro, and some other TV dishes, but bigger) for receiving GOES. Sadly I couldn’t find a offset dish bigger than 90 cm here. So someone suggested that I need at least 1.5m prime focus (the “old” type of TV dishes) that should have equivalent surface area than a 1.2m offset dish. So I went to Santa Efigenia Street (people from São Paulo will recognize) and went to [SatImagem Store](http://satimagem.com.br/). Since my father and I was already friends with a seller, I asked what dishes they had to sell and said that I want something around 1.5m. He said that he has a 1.9m dish to sell.

So I bought the dish, costed about R$200 (that’s about US$60) and also some cables and adapters. So since I was very excited to get things working, I asked my father’s help to assemble the antenna. I arrived home about 5 PM so it was very late to assemble the antenna. So I let it for the day after.

- [Assemble Process](assemble-process)
- [Dish Feed](dish-feed)
- [LNA and Filter](lna-and-filter)
- [Pointing the Antenna](pointing-the-antenna)

## Cite este trabalho

### Citação sugerida

Lucas Teske. “GOES Satellite Hunt.” _Lets Hack It_, 2017. [https://lucasteske.dev/goes-satellite-hunt/](https://lucasteske.dev/goes-satellite-hunt/).

### BibTeX

```
@misc{teske2017goessatellitehunt,
  author = {Teske, Lucas},
  title = {GOES Satellite Hunt},
  year = {2017},
  publisher = {Lets Hack It},
  url = {https://lucasteske.dev/goes-satellite-hunt/}
}
```