(meteorobs) Pilot carrier 54.309 MHz USB and sporadic-E observation

[Paul Goelz]

At 11:01 PM 1/22/2013, you wrote:
>For what it is worth:  There is strong sporadic-E affecting all my
>analog tv channel transmitters this evening rendering them useless for
>meteor reception.  But I tuned to the pilot carrier frequency of 54.309
>MHz USB and it appears to be unaffected by the sporadic-E and I am
>getting a nice stream of meteor pings. Maybe because it is lower power
>it is less affected by sporadic-E?
>
>This might be a good sign.

I am seeing occasional weak returns that might be meteors.  I am 
currently monitoring 54.310 and 55.250 on two separate receivers and 
spectrographs to see if there is a correlation.  So far it looks like 
there is.

Paul


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