Welcome to SatBench — The Home of Weather Nerdiness
Hey! I'm Trevor. I'm a weather-loving, ham-licensed nerd who built this site to track the skies, tinker with tech, and share whatever chaotic hobby I’ve fallen into this week. Yes, I’m under 30 — so I’m basically an infant in ham years. Give me another decade and I’ll start yelling at clouds professionally.
Right now, SatBench is all about GOES-19 (aka GOES-East), the geostationary satellite beaming down real-time weather data. I built my own ground station to receive the HRIT feed directly — no middleman, just straight-up space-to-dish action. Here's how I did it.
View GOES-19 Images🧠 What Even *Is* SatBench?
SatBench is my digital workbench — a central hub for all the nerdy stuff I build, break, and obsess over. It started as a satellite image gallery and has slowly evolved into a sprawling archive of weather data, geek tools, and live experiments. If it involves signals, space, code, radios, or graphs — I’m probably into it.
Expect things to break, change, get weird, and get fixed again. That’s just how we do it here.
🛠️ Projects & Tools
- 🛰️ GOES-19 Satellite Viewer: Real-time imagery from GOES-East, processed locally via my SDR ground station.
- 🌦️ Mine Hill Weather Station: My personal weather station feeds live temperature, wind, humidity, and pressure readings into the site — complete with nerdy graphs.
- 🧪 Live Stream Overlay System: A custom browser-based overlay for my weather-themed streams. It blends radar, NWS alerts, current conditions, and live GOES imagery — perfect for ham-flavored Twitch vibes or late-night weather nerding.
📰 Latest Blog Post
How We Set Up Our Ground Station to Receive GOES-19 Weather Data
At SatBench, we’re passionate about bringing live satellite weather imagery directly to the public. One of our most exciting projects has been setting up a ground station ...
View All Posts📱 Heads Up: This Site Loves Big Screens
SatBench is mostly optimized for laptops and desktops. It works *okay-ish* on tablets, but phones? Not so much — especially when it comes to viewing advanced GOES weather data. I do my best to keep things mobile-friendly, but I’m just one nerd with a hobby and some duct-taped JavaScript.
If you’re on mobile and still want to check out the GOES satellite imagery, I made a lightweight version just for you: Launch the GOES-19 Web App.
📡 What’s Coming Next?
SatBench will continue to grow as I add more tools, data, and maybe even some nonsense. You’ll eventually find DIY guides, signal-decoding experiments, maybe a ham radio live dashboard, and who knows — probably a project that controls something silly with a Raspberry Pi.