(meteorobs) successfully Compiled the existing "METEOR" Code

Thu Oct 18 04:37:54 EDT 2012

Hello Jay,

As told, the code is made by my son Olli, more or less according to what 
I wanted.
( There was a previous Windows exe program for the same purpose. This 
could do practically the same thing for my meteor reception, but was 
much less flexible. For example one could not change the narrow 
reception window frequency.
You can see some details of this, including several "pieces" of the 24 
hour display and different programs comparison table, at Ilkka Yrjölä site:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/oh5iy/
Select from the left MS observing with VHF .... " .. in several places 
in this longish windows..
This was also downloadable from there, and there still seems to be the 
link "downloadable from here 
<http://www.kolumbus.fi/oh5iy/msobs/manalyzer.zip>", but this leads to 
nothing.
Actully I do recommend rether to use the JAnalyzer even with Windows 
computers.
)

I would now prefer to give only the compiled program JAnalyzer.jar .

If someone has real needs and/or plans to develop it further or correct 
something, or get it working in a platform where it may not work, I 
think that also the source code will be available to this, but then I 
must ask Olli for permissions to this.

I will have the jar file together with a sample ses file available in a 
few days, possibly allready later today.

coming back to this,
Esko

> Hello Esko
>
> Could you share where you got the Source Code for JAnalyzer or post the
> Source Code like, for instance, in code.google.com so we can use it?
>
> Thank you
>
> Jay Salsburg
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org
> [mailto:meteorobs-bounces at meteorobs.org] On Behalf Of Esko Lyytinen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 5:05 AM
> To: Meteor science and meteor observing
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) successfully Compiled the existing "METEOR" Code
>
>
> Actually I do not know the METEOR program and the next may be somewhat
> different from this, but I tell here on this anyway.
>
> I have had in use for may years the program JAnalyzer that works in Java and
> consequently ought to work in diferent platforms with Java available.
> I had it in my own use only in MS Windows, but others have tested this with
> some Linux and also on Apple Macintosh. And they reported that it works ok.
> This program was coded by my second son Olli.
>
> The program does not do sound-recording and playback. It creates visual
> time-spectrum images and can automatically count meteors from (narrow
> band) radio signal.
>
> Unfortunately there are not proper instructions for this. Maybe not a lot of
> such are needed if one does not make his own definitions and only uses some
> previously made definitions.
>
> It is quite flexible. One can have in simultaneous use spectrum images of
> different time and frequency resolutions.
> One, that I always have in use in the meteor reception with this is a 24
> hour display with 48 rows half an hour each and with a frequency band of
> (about) 50 Hz.
> ( A very stable receiver is needed to use this display because of the narrow
> band.) In addition more fast and more wide band displays can be used at the
> same time and also have the counting of meteors.
>
> If there might be of interest, I could write some English instructions.
> But this will not happen now very soon, because of other things.  (
> Completing the instructions of the fb_entry program has beed delayed because
> of the British grazer-fireball. For those interested on this program
> (possibly allready downloaded it), I inform that this task is now advancing
> further.)
>
> Just now this is not in use because I made some other tests with the
> computer soundcard. But this has been working simultaneously with (a two
> core PC) video-reception by mans of two program (from the sam video signal),
> UFOCapture and VideoAnalyzer. The Janalyzer (with two different spectrum
> windows and meteor counting) only takes about 2 % of the processor time (the
> video programs together about 55 %).
>
> (As to that also mentioned VideoAnalyzer, this is in extensive use in our
> Finnish Fireball Working Group, but probably not at all in abroad.
> There are (unfortunately only) Finnish language instructions to this at:
> http://petk.suntuubi.com/fi/VideoAnalyzer/
> )
>
> Esko
>
>
>> Would you know if this will run in Wine under Linux?
>>
>> If not, is there a tutorial to write a similar meteor counter app in
> Ubuntu?
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:27 PM, Jay Salsburg <jsalsburg at bellsouth.net>
> wrote:
>>> I successfully Compiled the existing "METEOR" Code into a Windows
>>> Console EXE using FreeBasic.
>>> http://www.amsmeteors.org/mallama/mallama11.html
>>>
>>> Because my computer does not have the legacy A to D card the program
>>> expects, it does not work correctly but it runs, processing False
> Triggers.
>>> In addition to this, I created an executable "Audio Recorder" in VB6
>>> that runs on XP and Win7. Hopefully, I can migrate the "METEOR" Code
>>> into the Audio Recorder to create a new hybrid App that will run on Newer
> Hardware.
>>> In my last correspondence, I made a mistake. In haste I contributed
>>> the METEOR program to Christian Steyaert. I was mistaken.
>>>
>>> The Code is from Anthony Mallama dated 1996 and 1997.
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Jay Salsburg [mailto:jsalsburg at bellsouth.net]
>>> Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 12:02 AM
>>> To: 'Meteor science and meteor observing'
>>> Subject: adapt the Legacy Code named "METEOR by RADIO"
>>>
>>> I have been experimenting with creating a "Sound Recorder" App that
>>> will work with XP to Win7 machines. The problem I faced was that
>>> there is no fresh code that will work on both Windows OS and compile
>>> on the same Compiler. I solved the problem by abandoning the New
>>> Visual Studio Compiler and reverting to Visual Basic 6 which is near
>>> 10 years old. The Test successfully Compiles a Sound
>>> Recording/Play-Wav/MP3 App that works on both XP and Win7. Next is to
>>> start integrating the Contributed Code if possible, all the while,
> testing its function and utility on young Hardware.
>>> The reason to do this is to adapt the Legacy Code named "METEOR by RADIO"
>>> published by Christian Steyaert at
>>> http://www.amsmeteors.org/ams-programs/radio-observing/
>>>
>>> Jay Salsburg
>>>
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