(meteorobs) Fwd: SPACE WEATHER RADIO UPDATE

[Michael Boschat]

Posted on spaceweather.com      but I will not get any signals up here  
in Halifax,NS :(

SPACE WEATHER RADIO UPDATE: As a result of indiscriminate "sequester"  
budget cuts, the USAF Space Surveillance Radar will be shut down at  
the end of September. Readers have asked what this means for Space  
Weather Radio. For years we have broadcast Space Surveillance Radar  
echoes from meteors passing over the facility. Anticipating the  
shutdown, our radio engineer Stan Nelson is changing frequencies. "I  
have erected a new 50 MHz 4-element beam antenna for the Digital TV  
carrier of 54.310 MHz and have it feeding the receiver at  
SpaceWeatherRadio.com," he explains. The echoes we hear now will be TV  
signals bouncing off the ionized trails of meteors. "I will be  
experimenting with the direction and signal strength over the next  
couple of days, so stay tuned."


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