(meteorobs) Eta Aquarids - an FM report

[dxer2_2000 of Cooma]

Hi everyone

Here's an overview of Eta Aquarids perisitant trains for 2005 from Australia 
using FM radio obs. Frequency = 98.5MHz. Most activity was observed between 
0600-0700 AEST.
Good activity was also noted on 95.3Mhz

23 April - 1 train @ 45secs duration
24 April - 1 train @ 26secs duration
25 - 27 April -  NOTHING
28 April - 1 train @ 18secs duration
29 April - small peak - 3 trains, longest = 23secs
1 May - 1 train @ 24secs
2 May - 1 train @ 16secs
3 May - NOTHING
4 MAY - PEAK - 10 trains, longest= 1min 45secs - nice train! - occured at 
0705AEST.
5 May - 2 trains, longest @ 32secs

Cheers
Geoff Wolfe <Bombala NSW Australia>

BTW:
Persistant trains recordings (via FM Tuner setup) available

CD-R disc of mp3s of the Leonids (1998 - 2004)
DVD+R disc of mp3s for all meteor showers I've recorded (over 1GB of mp3s!)

Contact me privately if you're interested. My email address should be at the 
top of this message.

"dxer2_2000 at hotmail dot com"