(meteorobs) Backscatter RADAR

[Paul Goelz]

At 12:43 AM 6/1/2014, you wrote:
>A good starting point for 6 meters would be at least 1000 watts, 
>continuous wave, in an omni-directional (horizontal), 
>cosecant-squared (vertical) pattern.  I think that could get enough 
>ERP for detection by receiving stations in a bi-static configuration.
>
>Waivers COULD be considered by the FCC if enough of a case can be 
>made for research.
>
>On that note, I noticed that WWV is experimenting with periodic 
>broadcasts at 25 Mhz using kilo-watt or higher ERP.  This could be 
>another possibility.

You might not want to give up altogether on analog TV transmitters 
either.  I still don't know where the transmitters are, but during 
recent slightly enhanced propagation, I was getting usable returns on 
at least one sub-channel of ATV channel 2, 3, 4 and 5.  And this is 
on a 50MHz 6M halo, not any sort of directional antenna.  In the 
metro Detroit area, I could easily be hearing stations in 
Canada.  Have you tried monitoring each of the three sub-channels on 
each of the 2-6 ATV channels.... with a decent antenna..... for 
several hours to be SURE you can't hear anything?

Paul


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