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(meteorobs) Radio meteor rates high - anyone observe this?



Hello Observers'

 Yesterday May 19, between 1400-1800 UT I detected many radio pings
and was wondering if any other radio meteor observers' heard an increase?
My data below;

Observer: Michael Boschat
Location: Halifax, Canada (63 36'W, 44 39'N, 58 meters above sea level)
Listening Frequency: 83.25 MHz
Receiver: Icom R-10
Antenna : resonant dipole
Antenna Direction: Horizontally polarized with lobes in E-W plane, elev 0 deg
Filter  : high-Q (Q at least 300) bandpass filter between antenna & receiver.
Listening Mode: AM
Recording method: listening by ear

                               May 1998

                 Number of meteors heard in one hour interval

   | UT
May| 10  11  12  13  14  15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23
---+------------------------------------------------------------------------
19 |  1   3   5   7  51  50  52  52  19   -   -   -   -   -


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