(meteorobs) Simple receiver to detect meteorites

James H Van Prooyen grro at sbcglobal.net
Wed Aug 22 08:10:41 EDT 2012


Hello

You may want to try the VOR Navigation band from 108 to 118 MHz.
Reading the specification on you receiver it looks like it will support it.

Here is a web page with more information about VOR's:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHF_omnidirectional_range

Jim

--- On Wed, 8/22/12, Michael Boschat <boschat at mathstat.dal.ca> wrote:

From: Michael Boschat <boschat at mathstat.dal.ca>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Simple receiver to detect meteorites
To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 7:59 AM

> I also heard that you can use a regular FM radio tuned between
> two stations.  Robert Weisbloom

 I use a simple dipole on my balcony and an older Icom R-10 at 67.24 MHz
(ch.4) but because of TV going digital my meteor rates have dropped.

 I'm trying to figure out the FM thing but we have so many stations here
in Halifax walking over one another that is is almost impossible to get a
clean static. I would say it probably would work if you lived in a
sparsely populated area. Basics is to tune to a FM frequency you know a
station broadcasts on and monitor it...meteor goes by and you'll hear a
brief
bit of music or talking.



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

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