(meteorobs) TV pilot signals successful for forward scatter

bob71741 bob71741 at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 17 18:56:58 EDT 2009


Good catch Thomas! According to the FCC records, there are three (relativity) close channel 2 stations; one in Grand Junction, one in Flag, and one in Las Vegas. They are all low power as well.

Again, good catch!!
Bob

--- In meteorobs at yahoogroups.com, Thomas Ashcraft <ashcraft at ...> wrote:
>
> Of possible interest to radio meteor observers:
> 
> June 17, 2009
> 
> It appears that tv pilot carrier signals may prove useful for meteor 
> scatter work here in the US. I am presently experimenting with tv 
> channel 2 at 54.309 MHz USB.
> 
> Last night I captured a small fireball on video and radio and as an 
> exercise made a movie of it with my SpecLab chart embedded.
> I made the movie in .divx format and also Quicktime .mp4 format.
> 
> Each movie is about 3 MB and lasts the duration of the scatter reflection.
> 
> mp4 :     http://www.heliotown.com/FB2s20090617_1017ut_Ashcraft.mp4
> divx  :    http://www.heliotown.com/FB2s20090617_1017ut_Ashcraft.divx
> 
> 
> Also here are 10 second long movies of ELF/VLF reception at the time for 
> this meteor: ( No obvious emission)
> 
> mp4 :     http://www.heliotown.com/FBvlf20090617101759ut_Ashcraft.mp4
> divx  :    http://www.heliotown.com/FBvlf20090617_1017ut_Ashcraft.divx
> 
> 
> Thomas Ashcraft
> Radio Fireball Observatory
> 35.50 N  ,  105.89 W
> New Mexico
> www.heliotown.com
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