(meteorobs) My radio meteor problem

Ed Totman etotman at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 21 16:31:45 EDT 2006


I had a problem recently with a constant tone also, on
a channel 2 offset.  I connected a tv video
demodulator I recently built to the IF output of my
radio and was shocked to see and hear channel 2 Kansas
City, 1500+ miles way!  I couldn't hear any meteors
but the skip was very interesting.

--- Michael Boschat <aa063 at chebucto.ns.ca> wrote:

> Hi again:
> 
>  I work on the Channel 6 minus offset of 83.24 Mhz.
> This morning I went 
> to 83.25 Mhz
> just to see what it was like, I got a hard "tone"
> sound. I've heard that 
> before and it
> is not local, it has to be atmospherics. I remember
> that tone fading out 
> then coming in
> strong at other times a few years ago.
> That is why I went to 83.24 Mhz. On the positive
> offset of 86.24 Mhz it 
> is similar.
> 
>  My filter to eliminate other background FM stations
> ect can be tuned to 
> 63.25 Mhz
> or Channel 4 thus I could drop lower but I do not
> have a spectrum 
> analyizer to get the
> filter tuned right on. I *use* to get the filter
> tested at the 
> university as they had a rdaio astronomy dept
> but now that is no more and there is no one here in
> Halifax has such a 
> device anymore,
> well, only the TV stations, cable and phone
> companies...and they do 
> *not* do this for
> individuals.
> 
>  So for now, I'll have to hear the static and wait
> for the atmospherics 
> to go to get the meteor
> pings.
> 
> Now, a university station dropped to 88.1 MHz FM at
> about 25,000 watts. 
> I'm about
> 1.5 miles from them. Not sure how long they have
> been at that frequency 
> as I only noticed
> it 4 days ago.
>  
> 
> -- 
> Clear skies
> ===========
> Michael Boschat
> Royal Astronomical Society of Canada - Halifax
> Center 
> Astronomy page:  http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063
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