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Spaceweather Radio: Listen to the Camelopardalis meteor shower (spaceweatherradio.com)
17 points by zaroth on May 24, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



Where is the TV station broadcasting at 54MHz? I hear tons of pings on the livestream, but none in Brooklyn. (I'm not making any effort, though. I'm using a 2m yagi tuned to kind of work on 6m, and I'm inside.)

This did remind me to look for people trying to do 6m meteor scatter tonight. There are a few JT6M stations active tonight, which I don't usually hear. Unfortunately, I'm getting them all via normal propagation, not via meteor scatter. Oh well. It's nice to hear something on 6m for a change.


Every technical term you used sounded like gibberish to me, but I'd like to learn more - I live in Manhattan. Can I buy you a beer or another beverage of your choice in exchange for some of your time and explanations?


Sure, I'm usually around.

General overview: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteor_burst_communications

JT6M is a radio protocol for using the meteor trails to make contacts: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSJT_(Amateur_radio_software)


Well that is pretty cool. I listen to white noise so often the static was actually pleasant, with the pings it was musical.


For a more graphical approach, a group at the Norman Lockyer Observatory have set up a network across the UK with waterfall plots of the audio: http://www.merriott-astro.co.uk/spam3D.htm




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