Within 24 hours of my message to support, the Nooelec folks fixed that! It was exceptionally frustrating to just view the web picture. The Nooelec web site was also annoying, as well: Google Chrome would do this annoying oscillation when hovering over the little question mark icons to view the pictures. The 'driver download' is actually just an old (Version 2.3 from 2017) of Zadig, not actually the drivers. Is the box half full or half empty? I think it is twice as big as it needs to be, just the right size for two of them: When the kit arrived, I thought the dish was all one piece, as it arrived in one of the biggest Amazon boxes I've ever received. I contacted NOAA support and they responded within 24 hours and even included the files! I submitted an upstream PR, but it looks like there has not been much activity recently. Note that if you go looking for those PDF files at the end in the resources section, they are no longer available. Update: The USRADIOGUY GOES Satellite Imagery Reception is a great place for info, that would have been quite helpful had I known about it when I started. The hardware and software requirements for successful GOES-13 decoding are completely different from GOES-16/17 and all other L-Band geostationary weather satellites, do not expect the same setup that works for LRIT/HRIT to work with GOES-13 See also the reddit PSA PSA: What you need to know about GOES-13: This was somewhat of a gamble, as I bought mine before any of the reviews on Amazon. I was inspired to buy the Nooelec kit on Amazon after reading about it on the RTL SDR blog, in particular the quite excellent online tutorial on GOES 16/17 Weather Satellite Reception. I first received their NESDR Smart RTL-SDR as a birthday present several years ago, and really enjoyed setting up OpenWRT on EA3500 with RTL-SDR Stream. This is certainly not my first SDR product from Nooelec.

I've never even owned a TV satellite dish. I've been wanting to learn about satellite reception and SDR signal processing for quite some time.

Nooelec nesdr setup