{
 "slug": "discovery-dish",
 "name": "Discovery Dish",
 "maker": "KrakenRF",
 "category": "radio",
 "categoryLabel": "Radio & mesh",
 "status": "listed",
 "statusLabel": "Listed by maker",
 "description": "A 70 cm satellite dish under a kilogram that splits into three petals, for receiving weather satellites around 1.69 GHz.",
 "goodFor": "Pulling weather-satellite images down yourself, or doing radio astronomy on a budget.",
 "youNeed": "An SDR receiver, a feed for your band, and somewhere outdoors to point it.",
 "tradeoff": "The dish and the feed are priced separately; receive only.",
 "tags": [
  "Weather satellites",
  "L-band",
  "Portable dish",
  "Hydrogen line"
 ],
 "price": "US$149 dish and mount",
 "priceShort": "$149",
 "priceFrom": null,
 "checked": "2026-09-18",
 "url": "https://gadgets.sh/devices/discovery-dish/",
 "shortUrl": "https://gadgets.sh/discovery-dish",
 "markdown": "https://gadgets.sh/devices/discovery-dish.md",
 "image": "https://gadgets.sh/assets/discovery-dish.jpg",
 "cutout": "https://gadgets.sh/assets/cutouts/discovery-dish.webp",
 "shareCard": "https://gadgets.sh/og/discovery-dish.jpg",
 "shops": [
  {
   "merchant": "KrakenRF",
   "label": "Order on Crowd Supply",
   "kind": "market",
   "orderable": true,
   "url": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish?utm_source=gadgets.sh&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=discovery-dish&utm_content=api",
   "note": "Sold through Crowd Supply rather than the maker’s own shop."
  }
 ],
 "specs": [
  {
   "group": "Core hardware",
   "rows": [
    {
     "label": "Processor",
     "value": "None; an antenna with an active filtered feed",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    },
    {
     "label": "Display",
     "value": "None",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    },
    {
     "label": "Radio",
     "value": "Around 1.69 GHz with the L-band feed; S-band, Inmarsat and hydrogen-line feeds sold separately",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    },
    {
     "label": "Power",
     "value": "Bias tee from the receiver",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "group": "Details from the project page",
   "rows": [
    {
     "label": "Dish",
     "value": "70 cm aluminium, under one kilogram, splits into three petals for transport",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    },
    {
     "label": "Satellites",
     "value": "GOES HRIT, GK-2A LRIT, FengYun LRIT, NOAA HRPT, Metop HRPT and Meteor M2 HRPT",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    },
    {
     "label": "Feeds",
     "value": "L-band weather, S-band, Inmarsat and hydrogen line, each US$125",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    },
    {
     "label": "Enclosure",
     "value": "An outdoor electronics enclosure is sold separately at US$185",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    },
    {
     "label": "Use",
     "value": "A field report on the project page documents imaging the hydrogen line of the Milky Way",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    }
   ]
  },
  {
   "group": "Buying",
   "rows": [
    {
     "label": "Price",
     "value": "US$149 dish and mount on Crowd Supply",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    },
    {
     "label": "Availability",
     "value": "In stock on the day of review",
     "source": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
    }
   ]
  }
 ],
 "docs": [
  {
   "label": "Crowd Supply project page",
   "url": "https://www.crowdsupply.com/krakenrf/discovery-dish"
  },
  {
   "label": "Crowd Supply",
   "url": "https://www.crowdsupply.com"
  }
 ],
 "blueprint": {
  "openness": "closed",
  "opennessLabel": "Closed design",
  "summary": "KrakenRF publishes manuals and a 3D-printable feed adapter/enclosure drawings for Discovery Dish, but no electrical schematic for the active filtered feed.",
  "files": [
   {
    "kind": "manual",
    "label": "Discovery Dish Manual (PDF)",
    "url": "https://github.com/krakenrf/discoverydish_docs/blob/main/Paper%20Manuals/Discovery%20Dish%20Manual.pdf",
    "format": "PDF"
   },
   {
    "kind": "manual",
    "label": "Discovery Dish Feed Manual (PDF)",
    "url": "https://github.com/krakenrf/discoverydish_docs/blob/main/Paper%20Manuals/Discovery%20Dish%20Feed%20Manual.pdf",
    "format": "PDF"
   },
   {
    "kind": "3d-model",
    "label": "WiFi grid feed 3D-print adapter (STL)",
    "url": "https://github.com/krakenrf/discoverydish_docs/blob/main/WiFi%20Grid%203D%20Print%20Adapter/dd_feed_wifi_grid_adapter_v1.stl",
    "format": "STL"
   },
   {
    "kind": "enclosure",
    "label": "Outdoor electronics enclosure drawing (PNG)",
    "url": "https://github.com/krakenrf/discoverydish_docs/blob/main/DD%20Outdoor%20Electronics%20Enclosure/enclsoure_drawing_1.png",
    "format": "PNG"
   }
  ],
  "repos": [
   {
    "url": "https://github.com/krakenrf/discoverydish_docs",
    "role": "docs",
    "official": true,
    "license": null,
    "stars": 27,
    "pushed": "2025-12-13"
   }
  ],
  "parts": [],
  "notes": "Discovery Dish is described by the maker as an antenna with an active filtered feed (no MCU/display). The discoverydish_docs GitHub repo (its official wiki-linked docs repo) has full manuals, a 3D-printable adapter, and enclosure drawings, but no schematic for the feed's active filter/LNA circuitry was found, so electronics remain closed. No specific IC part numbers for the feed are disclosed by KrakenRF.",
  "checked": "2026-09-27"
 },
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 },
 "firmware": [],
 "chips": []
}