Its been over a month since I did a follow up post regarding the Eumetsat Eumetcast receiving station which I know have fully running, the whole process of setting it up was relivity easy once I’d bought all the bits needed, the only bit I had to wait for was the EUMETCast Key Unit plus software which took about 2 weeks, this was probably caused by me requesting permission to upload the images to my website for non commercial use.

Equipment wise I ordered:

• EUMETCast Key Unit + Software – £85
• DVB World USB Receiver – £60
• Dish (80cm) & Universal LNB – £69.50
• Satellite meter – £25.50
• MSG Toolset Plus* – £117.44

*Included MSG Data Manager, MSG Animator, GeoSatSignal

So the total outlay was £357.44 but in my opinion it was well worth it, there really is nothing like getting weather satellite images of earth from space and watching the weather change over time plus helps improve your geography of knowing where places are located.

As I’ve got the approval from the Eumetsat legal department I’m also able to upload the MSG series images every 6 hours you can find those at http://wx.magicbug.co.uk/msg/images/ I’ve not had time to make a pretty web page for displaying them so its currently just folders but that setup will come in time.