NOAA weather satellite image signal capture (part II)

Building the antenna

Now we have everything to build our antenna. So, we take a couple of axis made of wood. Indeed, our antenna needs of a wooden support on which to place the cables.

You have to cut a pair of copper of 53 cm longer wires and connect them through an electrict connector to the coaxial cable.

Our antenna

Now, we have to connect the other end to the receiver:

Connection done!

This is a picture referred to the simple antenna made up of two crossed woden axis (at 120°):

Project design (handmade!)

And the antenna realised, I suggest placing it in a free obstacle zone:

V-antenna!

No obstacles near there

120° angle between the two axises

The way in which the couple of wires as conjuncted to the antenna cable

Obtaining a single piece of this electric junction is very simple: you can cut the original strip in the single piece you need.

The final relization in all of its length

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Extending the monitor: if the DisplayPort doesn't work

For a long period of time I tried to connect my notebook Dell with his related monitor to extend it without success.

The particular connection between those two devices was:

• DisplayPort standard cable as first port on the monitor (also this device was branded Dell);
• HDMI port on the notebook.

The connection (it seems like a movie's title..!!)

We usually have a connection which is HDMI-HDMI, but this is one of those strange cases in which the cable has two different ports on the different sides.

The first think a guy thinks to do is to buy a perfect cable for this case: I bought a wire with HDMI on one side and DisplayPort on the other (I spent 12€!!).

DisplayPort-HDMI cable.

Nothing.

It didn't work anyway. At this point my colleague suggested me to use a normal HDMI cable and on the monitor side to use an HDMI-DVI adapter. In this way I could connect the HDMI side direct with my notebook and the other side connected with the adapter and the adapter with DVI port of the monitor this time.

HDMI-HDMI cable

HDMI-DVI adapter

 Finally this solution worked perfectly!!