(meteorobs) Question - radio meteor

[Paul Goelz]

At 02:15 PM 5/5/2014, you wrote:
>  I tried listening to what you mentioned Paul but had no results of 
> hearing anything just hard noise and no pings or anything,
>gave up on that. The guys out west Canada use 61.24 MHz -- no idea 
>what they are hearing but they have good rates!  again
>I just hear nothing but static.

You say you are listening by ear.  On the stronger of my two carriers 
on 55.259, that would suffice... I hear many distinct meteor 
pings.  I suspect that the weaker of the two would produce little to 
no audible results but since it is in effect superimposed on the 
stronger signal, I can't separate them audibly.  The spectrogram 
shows them as two very distinct and separate lines.

Have you tried using a spectrogram to see if there are weak returns 
that you are overlooking by ear?

I wish I knew where the NTSC Ch. 2 transmitter is that I am 
hearing.  I have no idea where it is or how far it is from me.  I do 
note, though, that the strong signal and the weak one produce very 
few coincident meteors, so they are at least spaced quite a ways from 
each other.

Paul


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