(meteorobs) May Camelopardalid plans

[Paul Goelz]

At 02:37 PM 5/23/2014, you wrote:
>Paul,
>
>At least one of the two transmitters must not be too far away since 
>you are picking up aircraft reflections.

Good point.  A real DUH, actually ;)  I never did the 
math.  Lessee.... Wikkipedia says about 500 miles (250 miles to the 
horizon at each end), give or take.   Maybe a bit farther with refraction etc.

I get an even stronger residual carrier on 55.239 MHz with more 
airplanes and fewer meteors.  I get nothing at all on 55.249 MHz 
except a steady carrier that I assume is cable leakage (we have one 
cable provider here that I think still carries analog).

I have tried the higher VHF NTSC frequencies and occasionally get 
meteors but not reliably.  Ditto for the VHF ATSC frequencies.  So 
when the day comes that both of these CH. 2c transmitters go dark, I'm sunk.

Paul


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