(meteorobs) Low-cost receiver for automatically detecting Meteor Forward Scatter RADAR

Jay Salsburg jsalsburg at bellsouth.net
Wed Aug 15 02:54:45 EDT 2012


Hello

For automatically receiving and detecting Meteor Forward Scatter RADAR, I
have favorable results from recent experiments with low cost TV Tuner
Dongles which may suffice as an "Entry Level" Receiver/Detector. The
objective is to successfully detect Meteors without the expensive and
cumbersome Receiver which has be accomplished. I estimate 90 Million People
in the United States may take advantage of this receiver. If you consider
only 0.01% of this population participating in reporting Meteor activity
with my Receiver, that puts the number of new Observers at 9000. Because the
NAVSPASUR Space RADAR is so large and powerful covering (in USA) the entire
Southern tier of States, new observation sites may produce an array effect
not currently in place at this scale on the planet. My System may
simultaneously and coherently cover a larger portion of the sky than is
possible any other way. There are details yet to work out using the Tuner
Dongle with SpecLab/ColorGramme, but these details are not hardware-based.
If anyone has experience with ExtIO for SpecLab, do not hesitate to email
me.

My preliminary Setup...

A 3 to 10 Element Yagi (can be assembled from scratch and erected in one
day); Less than $100
100 ft Coax, $30
Antenna Amplifier, $40
TV Tuner Dongle, $20
Requires a Personal Computer with Internet.

Jay Salsburg
http://www.salsburg.com/NAVSPASUR/




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