With the recent decommissioning of NOAA POES (NOAA-15, NOAA-18, NOAA-19), many amateur weather satellite hobbyists might be asking themselves if the hobby is now dead.

While NOAA POES satellites were the easiest stepping stones into amateur weather satellite reception, the hobby has seen massive strides in enabling easier reception of other satellites over the past few years. Furthermore, in the near future, various new satellites are scheduled for launch, which should be receivable by amateurs.

Over on his blog, Jacopo has created a detailed post showing what satellites amateur hobbyists can still receive on the L-band and S-band. Some receivable satellites include Meteor-M,  Metop, Arctic Weather Satellite (AWS), STERNA, Elektro-L, GOES, EWS-G, Jason-3, UVSQSat-NG, DMSP, HINODE, ISS DATV and Proba 2.

While almost all of these satellites (apart from Meteor-M's LRPT 137 MHz signal) require a satellite dish and L-band, S-band, or X-band feed, recent products like our Discovery Dish can make setting up an L-band or S-band system significantly easier.