(meteorobs) Simple receiver to detect meteorites

[Juan Martin Semegone]

Hello all,

The VHF freq. is much better than UHF, even when the UHF have more power. Now, it depends on your distance from the station. Signal strenght is attenuated by a factor of 1/(f)3.

All the best for your observations..!!!!

Kind regards,

Martín.

Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 06:00:13 -0700
From: grro at sbcglobal.net
To: meteorobs at meteorobs.org
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Simple receiver to detect meteorites

Yes that is my question!

I have found the following:

    In Canada, VOR's are 150W CW VHF. 


   
VORTAC's have the same VOR power, but also have a TACAN (UHF VOR for 
Military    
    use only + DME for civilian use) rated at 5.2 KW peak power


   
VORDME's have the same VOR power, but have a standalone DME. Depending 
on    
    location and intended use, the DME can have 100W (approach) or 1000W 
(en route)

I hope that helps...

Jim


--- On Wed, 8/22/12, Paul Goelz <pgoelz at comcast.net> wrote:

From: Paul Goelz <pgoelz at comcast.net>
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Simple receiver to detect meteorites
To: "Meteor science and meteor observing" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012, 8:27 AM

At 08:10 AM 8/22/2012, you wrote:
>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

Has anyone actually seen meteors while monitoring a VOR 
transmitter?  I would think they are far too low power.

Paul


Paul Goelz
pgoelz at comcast.net
Rochester Hills, MI
www.pgoelz.com 

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