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(meteorobs) Radio Orionids - 15th to 27th



Hello

While I've had a radio meteor detection system for over two years, 
I've not bothered to do much regular counting. Just recently (on the 
14th October) a friend constructed for me the small circuit necessary 
for Pierre Terrier's Meteor 4 computer program. While I'll likely 
soon rebuild the system around another radio and set it all up 
permanently, here are some results for the current system. I have 
listened to the system for quite long periods to check the detections 
and "ground" the data. It works well though there are a few things I 
need to talk to Pierre about.

The following is in local time. I'm +10 UTC. Location is just north 
of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (27.5S 153.17E).


     |   October 2000
     | 15  16  17  18  19  20  21  22  23  24  25  26  27
  ---+-----------------------------------------------------
   0 | 26  36   -  20  44  44 102  22  31  32  27  34  74T
   1 | 46  30   -  29  47  43  79  19  36  33  31  30  41
   2 | 36  34   -  28  26  47  63  25  36  33  37  36  39
   3 | 43  29   -  45  51  56 176  32  46  47  51  40  40
   4 | 46  47   -  44  70  61 262  41  50  46  76  32  49
   5 | 41  39   -  30  47  48  50  39  49  36  56  36  46
   6 | 38  52   -  52  53  66  67  32  47  49  53  43  48
   7 | 22  52  62  50  46  64  86  39  62  62  49  30  42
   8 | 42  46  62  38  66  56  53  33  37  57  61  44  37
   9 | 30  43  45  48  42  35  39  36  35  39  45  31  43
  10 | 14  19  25  26  37  23  31  21  28  34  30  33  21
  11 | 17  23  17  20  19  23  22  19  22  20  19  24  19
  12 | 11  20  18  17  22  21  21  15  15  25  26  16  11
  13 | 19  19  18  29  20  21  11   9  16  22  21  20  13
  14 | 18  18  12  27  22  22  18  17  16  26  24  22   -
  15 |  9  13  10  13  16  14  18  16   9  19  19  19   -
  16 |  9   7  11  19  15  20  49C 12  12   8  23  10   -
  17 |  4   7  11   6   7  13  12   7   5  12  87T  8   -
  18 |  3  11   9   9   7  12   3   9   9  18  50T  7   9
  19 |  9  14   5   8  13   9  32   9   5  27  12  12  11
  20 | 10  16  21  18  15  23  18  20  10  33  17  12  12
  21 | 16  21  23  22  22  24  15  17  25  20  31  30  32
  22 | 39  29  31  26  34  25  26  29  21  22  27  39  38
  23 | 40  96E 38  25  36  67  25  31  38  28  33 170T 32
  ---+----------------------------------------------------

Notes:
-  no results (power failure)
T  thunderstorm
E  Sporadic-E
C  computer interference (from another I was building)

I'm sure about the sources of interference mentioned in the notes as 
I was listing to the system at the time. However the results for 21st 
look great, but I suspect that there may have been a distant 
thuderstorm. I was asleep and don't really know but it just looks too 
good to be true. I wish I had recorded some of it on audio tape to 
confirm the result. As I'm running it just from a DOS floppy at the 
moment, I also didn't store the actual data, just a record of the 
detections.

The rest of the results confirm that the system is at least picking 
up the daily cycle and the rising and setting of the Orion radiant.

Once I get the system rebuilt around another radio and computer I'll 
dedicate it to this project. When I'm happy with it I'll consider 
making contributions to the Radio Meteor Observation Bulletin 
distributed by Christian Steyaert... if I'm allowed.

Oh... and Robert L; I too would encourage you to include the 
"southern view" in your weekly meteor activity outlooks (plus a 
mention of any daylight activity :).

thanks
Bruce
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