[R-390] Leonid meteor shower

[Jim Brannigan]

Paul,
I went outside, briefly (Brrrrr), to watch the shower, but there is too much
light pollution here in suburban NYC to see much.
Then I listened around 144.180 Mhz. and heard several burst transmissions
from stations working M/S.
The current vogue for meteor scatter work is WSJT.  A computer generated
tone set sent to the XMTR via the sound card.  Receive audio is passed to
the computer, via the sound card and the program sorts things out.
Due to lack of foresight I was not set for this and Oh dark thirty is not a
good time to start hooking things up and loading software.
I am not aware of any M/S affect on HF propagation.

Jim


> R-390 folks,
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> I got up in the middle of Monday night to see a spectacular meteor
> shower display.  Did anybody else see this?
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> Also, I know there is VHF propogation enhanced by the ionization of the
> meteor trails.  Sadly, I forgot to turn on my non-A to see if there was
> any HF effects.  Anybody else who was more alert?
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> Best regards,
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> Paul W0AD