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RE: (meteorobs) Radio Orionids - 15th to 27th
Can you provide a little information on the radio setup and the interface?
What type of receiver are you using? Where is the transmitter? What type of
signal are you detecting (CW?)? What frequency are you using? How did you
calibrate your system?
Are you using an analog to digital converter coming out of the receiver? 4 ,
8 or 16 bit?
I would like to look at the computer program you are using if possible.
Where can it be obtained?
Dick Zseltvay
KC4COP
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-meteorobs@jovian.com [mailto:owner-meteorobs@jovian.com]On
> Behalf Of Bruce Young
> Sent: Friday, October 27, 2000 10:19 AM
> To: meteorobs@jovian.com
> Subject: (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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