(meteorobs) Spectral software

[stange34 at sbcglobal.net]

Additional 8 free software programs developed by radio amateurs which may 
lend themselves to meteor work although many of them were designed to pick 
out extremely weak signals in the middle of noise & QRM in general.
http://www.weaksignals.com/


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Ashcraft" <ashcraft at heliotown.com>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2007/07/03 13:43
Subject: (meteorobs) Spectral software


> SpecLab...freeware info and download at
>
> http://freenet-homepage.de/dl4yhf/spectra1.html
>
>
>
> Siddhartha Jain wrote:
>> Glad to know you have success. How are you recording them? Do you
>> listen to the audio or do you have some kind of program to record the
>> spikes in the signal strength?
>>
>> I don't have a website but I do have a blog. Maybe I can start posting
>> some info there.
>>
>> My current setup is hooked to a Windows computer because I use
>> PCRTalk. I want to move the setup to a Linux box and write a script to
>> record the signal strength variations to RRD or maybe MySQL.
>>
>> What I do not yet is how to present and share this information. Any
>> pointers on that will be appreciated.
>>
>> - Siddhartha
>>
>> On 6/30/07, Francisco Ocaña <albireo3000 at yahoo.es> wrote:
>>> I have followed your process with your problems and successes. I have
>>> found it very interesting. Do wou have website? I would like to set up a
>>> meteor radio station here in Spain and I look for other observers
>>> experiencies.
>>>
>>> Thank you!
>>>
>>> Paco Ocaña
>>>
>>> Siddhartha Jain escribió:
>>>
>>> > Would you consider any scanners? I am successfully using a ICOM
>>> > PCR-1000 with a Fry's Yagi antenna for observing meteors. I bought the
>>> > scanner off ebay for about $350.
>>> >
>>> > Before the scanner, I ran into the same issue you are facing, that is,
>>> > FM congestion. Even though I did find some nulls using various sites
>>> > including radio-locator.com but interference from neighbouring
>>> > channels made life miserable. Then I tried monitoring Channel 6's
>>> > video frequency using a portable TV that I bought at Walgreens but for
>>> > reason it kept on latching to some FM station on channel 6. Finally, I
>>> > moved to the PCR1000 and things have been pretty smooth once I got the
>>> > antenna pointed in the right direction.
>>> >
>>> > Here's another interesting and cheaper idea that I came across and I
>>> > am going to give it a try once I can spare the funds for another PC
>>> > and the tv card.
>>> > http://www.amxl.com/option,com_content/task,view/id,1/Itemid,1/
>>> >
>>> > If you already have a PC that you can tinker around with using Linux
>>> > then this Flyvideo 3000 card costs just $65 or so.
>>> >
>>> > Hope this helps,
>>> >
>>> > - Siddhartha
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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