(meteorobs) New frequency gives me radio meteor reprieve

[Michael Boschat]

Quoting bob7174:

> Which way is your antenna pointing now?

  Right now it is straight up using it as omni-directional. I was using
83.24 MHz ( ch 6 ) since 1998 then when the US went digital this year
my rates fell to 1-8/hr! I was looking around at what 2 others
in West Canada were using and 67.24 MHz was one,so a friend tuned my
filter to that and I've heard more meteors now like before.

  Here is the data of my site:

Observer: Michael Boschat
Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Lat: N 44d 39'
Long: W 63d 36'
Hgt: 58 meters above sea level
Listening Frequency: 67.24 MHz --- as of Nov.22
Receiver: Icom R-10
Antenna : resonant dipole
Antenna Direction: Horizontally polarized with lobes in E-W plane,
         elev 0 deg
Filter  : high-Q (Q at least 300) bandpass filter between antenna &
           receiver.
Listening Mode: CW




Clear skies
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Michael Boschat
Halifax Center - Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Astronomy page:  http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa063