[Meteor-Scatter] from new member - Geoff Wolfe

[Geoff Wolfe]

Hi everyone
Since I'm accepted into the list, I'll give some info on myself & my 
equipment.
I'm 35 years of age & unemployed. I have been DXing for nearly 20 years now 
& I'm mainly interested in MW, FM & TV. I like getting Skip, tropo, F2, 
Auroral backscatter, aircraft bounce & of course MS!

I got interested in meteors since hearing the 1998 Leonids although I did 
capture some recordings from the 1991 & 1994 Leonids & 1994 Geminids (big 
trains that year!).

I use 2x 12 element "Log periodic" FM antennas (gain 12.3 dbi each) 
seperately mounted on water pipe masts (both horizontal). I use a 
metropolitan TV/FM type antenna on my car radio (which has amazing pickup 
BTW).

My main Tuners are
SONY ST-SA5ES RDS tuner
Marantz St-400
TEAC T-515
SONY XRS-300 car radio.
Realistic Pro-2004 scanner.

All except the TEAC/Realistic are fitted with 110k murata filters.  
Suprisingly, the car radio only uses 1 ceramic filter. Most FM receivers 
seem to have 2 or 3. The car radio is excellent on both AM & FM.

I recently had a phasing unit built but don't use it for MS due to a 2db+ 
loss. I don't have any preamps to compensate.

Could someone build me a tunable preamp for FM?
I don't have the technical knowledge to do so & am unable to comprehend 
electronics etc. I have very limited technical knowledge, although I do my 
own mods like inserting filters & coax sockets (amazing how so many tuners 
come without these) & bypassing FM muting by cutting a track on the board 
usually.

Cooma is located in southern NSW & I live nearly 1000m above sea level. Have 
only a few local FM stations, so there are many clear channels for MS.

I'd better shut up now.
73s
Geoff <Cooma NSW Australia>


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