(meteorobs) May Camelopardalid plans

[Jim Wooddell]

Just checked a bunch of the live weather cams and forecasts for a Nevada
and Arizona.  Looks like a lot of clouds.  BUMMER.

Jim



On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Samuel Barricklow <k5kj at mac.com> wrote:

> Paul,
>
> At least one of the two transmitters must not be too far away since you
> are picking up aircraft reflections.
>
> However, on the 2 meter band, I have worked stations in southern Kansas by
> reflecting signals off of aircraft passing over Oklahoma.  So, the aircraft
> would have to have been within line of sight at both locations, unless
> tropospheric bending allowed the use of aircraft beyond “normal” line of
> sight.
>
> Sam - K5KJ
>
>
> On May 23, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Paul Goelz <pgoelz at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> This is the output of a Kenwood TS480 ham transceiver, tuned to 55.259 MHz
> (USB) and feeding Spectrum (a free spectrogram program).  The antenna is a
> 50MHz halo.  I do not know where the two analog TV stations are.... there
> is a prominent carrier that produces lots of meteors, and there is a second
> much weaker carrier that also produces meteors.  The two transmitters seem
> to be very widely spaced (possibly in opposite directions from me), as I
> rarely see coincident meteors on both.  I feel very lucky to still have
> both of these transmitters available ;)
>
>
>
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