(meteorobs) My radio meteor problem

[Ed Totman]

There must be some other powerful VHF transmitters we
could use for radio meteor work...

--- Thomas Ashcraft <heliotown27 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Mark,
>    
>   Thanks for that info on sporadic E. 
>    
>   Regarding lowband VHF.....do you mean 50-54 MHz
> carriers will transform to HD? Do you think they
> will wait until 2009 or has the conversion started
> already? I was pondering setting my ICOM R-75 up
> with a yagi for those frequencies.  
>    
>   I did a lot of forward scatter work at 88-107 MHz
> FM frequencies in the late 1990s but the FM dial got
> too full of stations with few useable vacancies. It
> kept getting tougher to do radio meteor work.
>    
>    
>   Clear skies,
>   Thomas Ashcraft
>   New Mexico
>    
>   
> 
> k9gx at thepoint.net wrote:
>   
> I'm afraid I have some bad news for you. The analog
> TV signals on low band VHF
> channels are going to go away in 2009. FCC is
> mandating that stations
> transition to "HD". The analog signals will be no
> more.
> Mark S. Williams
> Elizabeth, IN
> 
> 
> 
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