[Elecraft] 6m meteor scatter

Gordon LaPoint gordon.lapoint at gmail.com
Wed Dec 5 11:44:18 EST 2018


On 6Mtrs what mode and frequency should we be using??
Thanks,
Gordon - N1MGO
On 12/5/18 11:29 AM, David Olean wrote:
> Sporadic meteors are arriving from all sorts of directions, and the 
> best time for sporadic meteors is at 6 AM local time because that is 
> the time when your location on Earth is moving into the wind so to 
> speak.  The Earth's travel in its orbit and the forward momentum of 
> the spinning Earth picks up more meteors at sunrise than when the 
> opposite is occurring at 6 PM local time. That is the worst time for 
> sporadic meteors. That being said, you are liable to make a contact at 
> any time.  You are just playing percentages!
>
> Dave K1WHS 

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Gordon - N1MGO



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