NOAA GOES satellites are a popular way to receive beautiful full-disk weather images of the Earth using an RTL-SDR, antenna hardware such as the Discovery Dish, and software such as SatDump. The GOES-EAST satellite covers North and South America and was provided by GOES-16 until April 7th.
Over the past few months, NOAA has been moving the GOES-16 satellite into a storage orbit and the newer GOES-19 satellite, which was launched in June 2024, into the GOES-EAST position. Recently, on 7 April 2025, this transition was completed, and the GOES-16 was turned off, and the GOES-19 signal was activated.
For SatDump users, no configuration changes should be necessary to receive signals from GOES-19. However, Sanchez users will need to update their configuration file.
If you're interested, Carl Reinmann, owner of the usradioguy.com website, provides more detailed information about the transition and activation of GOES-19.
