librtlsdr VS noaa-apt

Download the https://github.com/rtlsdrblog/rtl-sdr-blog or https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr version instead. Even try both, since there may be differences.

Give https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr a try?

I should have mentioned, I'm using this fork of the librtlsdr library, which contains a slightly different version of rtl_power with some extra features, and apparently the "-D" option is treated differently in the version I'm using. The forked version allows you to set a specific branch using the "-D" option, as described below:

There are a few variations of librtlsdr, f.e. this fork; https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr which adds features that aren't available in the version used in most Linux distributions. This adds some extra features and output that are really useful (most notably, regular output of max, min, mean power levels and noise floor). It also has some extra functions to fine tune signals.

Linux, librtlsdr and this port of DSD. FWIW, this port of DSD is newer and also has a Windows binary.

Next I moved onto try feeding the output of rtl_sdr (from https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr) to nrsc5 and that worked well!

You have an older librtlsdr; I'm using the GitHub version, which adds extra features; https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr

Thank you for your reply, I have tried it with the 'static' from the official GitHub https://github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr/releases , but the error remains? Do you mean an even newer version?

github.com/librtlsdr/librtlsdr may be worthy to check out.

GOES sats are geostationary but the NOAA APT satellites are encircling the planet and you can pick them up. Old tutorial but still relevant, just use "noaa-apt" tool[0] instead of WXtoImg. https://www.rtl-sdr.com/rtl-sdr-tutorial-receiving-noaa-weat...

[0] https://github.com/martinber/noaa-apt

Sometimes WXtoIMG just discards parts of the recoding when the signal wasn't strong enough. In those cases I've had some luck running the recorded .wav file through noaa-apt to get the full image.

so the NOAA_APT decoder link on your guide did not work properly, By chance did you mean this link https://noaa-apt.mbernardi.com.ar/?

So far I only use it for noaa-apt program though.

Had this exact problem, the thing that I found is that GQRX records at the wrong sample rate, which WXtoImg can’t handle. However, https://noaa-apt.mbernardi.com.ar this utility did work for me. I’ll also note that WFM is the setting I use in GQRX, not AM

You should try noaa-apt too, it usually gives better results for me.