(meteorobs) Newbie - Antenna and transmitter selection

[Siddhartha Jain]

The obvious question :) Is there anyone here, from around Silicon
Valley, successfully tracking meteors on the commercial FM band?

Thanks,

- Siddhartha

On 5/8/07, Thomas Ashcraft <heliotown27 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Yes, unfortunately FM frequency allocation is almost full up now in the US.  It is a real hassle to find an open spot on the dial for doing forward scatter work.  One possibility, if you are lucky where you are, is that sometimes small college stations go off the air at midnight which frees up a space for the night hours.
>
> Good luck.
>
> Tom
>
> Siddhartha Jain <siddhartha at siddharthajain.net> wrote:
> The antenna is
> mounted on a tripod about four feet off the ground and is pointing
> south (north is blocked by my apartment itself) at a small elevation
> of maybe 25 degrees. The setup has done wonders to my signal
> reception. Almost all FM frequencies come in at full signal strength
> now as indicated by the TX-480's signal strength meter. And that's
> also my problem now that almost all frequencies seem to be used.
>
>
> - Siddhartha
>
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