(meteorobs) Monitoring solution for radio meteor observers in North America

[Jodie Reynolds]

Hi Wayne [and list],

My original reply never hit the list, not sure why, so I paste:

  Good bit of advice, but make sure you end-up with the R820T tuner.
  The FC0012/13 and ET4000 are ~45Mhz-1.7Ghz, just above Snotel.  I had
  to build an upconverter for my FC0013 dongles.

  It's also nice that they have a diode for ESD protection already
  soldered-in.  After blowing up a couple of chips I figured out I
  needed to solder a diode in to protect mine.

  The MCX is also a nice touch because it's easy and cheap to adapter
  the MCX to BNC, F, or UHF to support a large directional antenna.

  I might have to look at a couple of those myself and save my
  upconverter and FC0013's for shortwave listening.

Oh - one other thought:  Check out SDR# (sdrsharp), a fully
open-source package that is pretty easy to grock.   I've been working
on whacking some meteor filtering and counting code into it for a
week or two now, off and on.

http://sdrsharp.com

 --- Jodie


Thursday, December 27, 2012, 1:31:52 PM, you wrote:

> am very interested in dongle use age for meter detection along with RMOB
>   or skypipe  use both here
> wayne
> add me to list id you start one


> On 12/27/2012 10:51 AM, Richard Kramer wrote:
>> At 07:38 AM 12/27/2012, Paul Goelz <pgoelz at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> At 10:07 PM 12/26/2012, you wrote:
>>>> Paul,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks to your guidance, I've succeeded on getting running on my
>>>> Windows XP desktop.
>>>
>>> We've taken this offlist since it is somewhat off topic.  If anyone
>>> else is interested in using one of these dongles for meteor
>>> detection, shoot me an Email.
>>
>> I am writing up my experience in getting my dongle running. I'm
>> planning to post it to this list once I have some confidence that it
>> is reasonably accurate. Paul has been very helpful.
>>
>> Please feel free to copy me on any emails to Paul. I'd be glad to
>> also try to help if I can.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>>
>>
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 Jodie                            mailto:spacerocks at spaceballoon.org