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Not sure anymore what satellite the previous picture was. The generated json always says noaa15, no matter which one passes. Thanks for the website, with this I could capture an 80° elevation pass of noaa19 today. However it gave me only a useful signal when the satellite was quite high, like above 30° it started to decode. Only received some clouds in Antarctica LOL. Means my antenna is suboptimal. I'll try to play around with this antenna first, and then maybe the bandfilter with amplifier from Aliexpress. But over 20€ each! Glad that I'm not a HF affectionate, this must be quite an expensive hobby. I saw passive ones with only RLC which cost around 5€. That's tempting, but for 5$ I could order 5 PCB in China and make it myself ... Would be a good justification to buy a set of smd inductors.

Why is this?

On facebook they posted screenshots of second hand Neta V in china, all sell around 60 - 80 kBaht. So there is still a lot of room for discounted netas. 300k for a car without warranty, spare parts and service points but with a history of failures in all components ... not sure how many they will sell at this price

I'm in Spain. My antenna was a dipol for 162MHz, now I cut new metal strips and checked resonance at 137 MHz with a VNA. Its probably the best I can get before making such a complicated antenna like yours. With the new antenna, there is sufficient signal. The signal can be seen in the waterfall right and left to the actual frequency, and audio can be heard. This was not the case with my old antenna. The pictures of the clouds only are not that interesting, but the satellite also measures infrared or something and then colors the rain clouds. These are really nice. Thanks for your help with this, and I put my antenna here not because it's beautiful, but that others will be encouraged to try. Its minimal effort to make one.

OK thank you for the instructions. Following these guidelines, I did receive something from noaa15, although no idea where this is, and no idea, if this picture is from the satellite or if this is some map overlay from the software. The next satellite noaa19 gave some islands which I cannot identify either. Therefore I imagine that "3 - Your antenna is not suitable (what antenna are you using?)" is the next thing to address. I'm using a dipole built some time ago for 162MHz for AIS ship position, which worked well for that purpose. So the SDR and cables might be good and I'll remake the dipole next.

Could you have a look how your waterfall compares to mine? I seem to get a weak signal, and sometimes it decodes, but I feel there is something missing. This morning, I also had the automatic thing connecting when the satellite passed, but only grey in the decoded picture. At the moment I think, maybe my signal is too weak?

Idea is good, but take a suitable diode, not one of these toys. At 0.8V and 10A, the diode needs to dissipate 8W. Put this into your MC4 connector and you get a nice ignition device to burn down your whole installation.

Before this dish, what antenna and software did you use for the previous pictures? I played around with this stuff some months ago, IIRC the frequency was around 160MHz ? , made only a simple dipole but could not get any good reception with the SDR.

I would not really call these reductions cut throat. In china, they can sell the BYD seagull for around 10k$, and I m sure they dont sell at a loss. The Dolphin which is similar, was 799kB at the beginning, and now they are producing in Thailand. The cost of labour in TH might be even cheaper than in China. Therefore reducing the car to 500k, would seem to me just normal price. Its not that they are making losses. I m waiting for an electric pickup reasonably priced. The Riddara 6 entry level model at 900k is still way above ICE pickups and that cheap model can only go 300km or so. Electric should be cheaper to produce than ICE with 10 000 moving parts only in the motor. And therefore the cars should also be much cheaper.

No the shark is too expensive for me and I dont want plugin hybrid for the same reasons KhunLa explained.

Wife says, she saw somewhere that BYD announced a full electric pickup in TH for the end of the year. Did anyone see this? I m reluctant to buy the riddara rd6 seeing the issues Neta V owners have now. Neta even had dealerships, but very little repair centers and no spare parts. Geely seems in the same situation to me. Therefore my hope for something affordable pickup size from BYD.

If you see the prices in China for exactly the same vehicles, and if they are produced in TH, then there is still room for nice discounts.

Yeah, when you get older, you dont want to drive around in a pile of rubbish like a homeless, you will feel that life is not infinite and you wanna have something nicer. Now check the good info here and select the EV of your dreams, then report here that we can all learn something about this car.

Yeah well, this is a little bit out of my budget. Lets see if the price war continues and the shark falls to 1M. And yeah @Photoguy21, I m running a Diesel where you could do 1000km without stopping. But I d rather have something that goes 300km which I can charge for free. Solar is a no brainer if you have a house or land and if you are not completely unable to do manual work yourself. But if you can pay for petrol, it is nice, unfortunately not everyone is rich.

Oh this is really bad news. I was looking forward to the RD6 and I m still 8cm taller.

They will not ask you if you want to try or not. They will mix it into the bread, cheese, yogurt whatever.

The underground cable with the digital meter is probably better quality for cable size, so I would keep this. Then you do like the guys said: ATS automatic transfer switch. You install the inverters near the new house supply and run your own underground cable to the old house. Old counter and line will be removed there. If you ever run down your batteries in the new house, you switch both houses via the ATS to grid. And let a guy who knows about electric installation draw it all for you.

Thanks Pib for providing so much detail, this is really interesting. I wonder if the other chines brands also have such sophisticated cooling options as BYD. I see a lot of complaints about Neta V mechanics and aircon, but nothing about battery cooling. This makes me think, they might just not have it.

Isuzu electric pickup.

That's nice, but I'm waiting for the Atto2. When will it come?

I've had the same thoughts, and a couple of weeks ago, I joined the neta V facebook group. Its all in thai, but you can accept automatic translation. And actually I've changed ideas about the neta v. Not that I'm against repairing cars myself, but not even the dealers or service agents can get spare parts. Also there seem to be multiple failures in the same car, starting from inside door knobs cracking off, until water in the gear box oil? do they have gear boxes? aircon seems to break in all of them.

Looks like they liked your promotion video and they are asking for more. I would spend a couple of hours learning basic video editing and make them another one with " Bluetech warranty scam..." yellow title in the picture ... That's probably the only thing you can do. But maybe you can become a youtube star and get your money back in this way. Thanks for letting us know about this company. As this gentleman said:

Seems a pocket car for the price of a netaV, not gonna come to TH.

I wonder if in Thailand mealworm is allowed to be mixed into bread, cheese, fruits etc. like it is now in the EU. To increase health and wellbeing of EU citizens, and as there has always been a high demand of mealworm powder, the EU clowns have legalized upto 4% of mealworm in bread, and other foods. Here is the link to the EU bulletin: 2025/89 of 20 January 2025 authorising the placing on the market of UV-treated powder of whole Tenebrio molitor larvae (yellow mealworm) as a novel food and amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2470 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32025R0089 Long time ago they would have closed a bakery, if they had found such worms in the bread. But now are new times and new regulations.

With the picture of the corrosion, they should not have asked for more. These companies fear social media posts. If you could make a shake free video with a tripod, you would get some thumbs up and comments.