(meteorobs) Meteor outburst 12 May

[Chris Steyaert]

  Hi Alex,


Unpredicted outbursts are real, but not very 
common. We were lucky to observe an outburst of 
*overdense* reflections on Feb 5, 2015 (see my talk at the IMC2105).

It would be useful to get a quantitative idea of 
the numbers under 'normal' conditions and during 
the outburst. The hourly counts of European 
stations at www.rmob.org  Live meteor observatory 
do not show anything special at that time. There 
can be various reasons for this: geometry, too 
faint underdense reflections for these stations. 
The only kind of interference I could see is a 
thunderstorm close to the transmitter.

Could you share some spectrograms or other details?


         Thanks!

         Chris


At 08:59 18/05/2016, Alex Daskalakis wrote:
>Hello and good morning/afternoon/evening to all
>
>Whilst indulging in one of my favourite 
>propagation modes - meteorscatter, and after 
>corroborating with other amateur radio stations 
>during the same time period, around 10:30 utc 
>and for 30 odd minutes, a few stations that were 
>active, experienced enhanced meteor reflections. 
>All in all, they were weak, not overdense meteor 
>reflections but very plethoric in their 
>reflections. I haven't seen anything posted 
>about that date, but it raised a few MS-enthusiasts on clusters and chats.
>
>To give a bit of technical info, i am located :
>Longitude : 23.76293 E (23° 45' 47'' E)
>Latitude : 37.89186 N (37° 53' 31'' N)
>or Maidenhead locator KM17vv
>
>Station that i was recording this phenomena was @ JN95in or
>Longitude : 18.70096 E (18° 42' 3'' E)
>Latitude : 45.54663 N (45° 32' 48'' N)
>
>Meteor reflections recorded at SGO also showed 
>very enhanced rates for that time period too.
>
>For those on the list, if your stations and/or 
>data feeds corroborate such enhanced rated that 
>day too, i hope the above proves useful in finding unusual activity then.
>
>Best regards,
>Alexandros Daskalakis SV1NZX