Leonids 1999 - Meteor Scatter Reception
Frequency: 55.25 MHz
Transmitter: TV signal from Liege Bol d'air, Belgium.
Receiver: Todmorden, UK.
Path: Approx 500kM.
Reception Method
Zenith pointing wire turnstile with ground as reflector.
AR8200 scanner receiver, upper sideband mode, 55.429 MHz, audio output to
PC soundcard.
TV carrier received in 30Hz bandwith with mean power detection. Signal
strength is normalised by the mean level from a second nearby 30Hz channel
selected to receive only background noise.
Charts
All charts are derived from a 300 second integration per sample point.
Mean signal strength over 44 hour period, GIF, 10kb.
Mean signal during the event, GIF, 10kb.
Samples
The receiver audio passband contains two carriers, one at about 94Hz
and the other at 1250Hz. These appear to be distinct co-channel
transmitters as their individual pings do not coincide.
Comments
Long and strong pings quickly merged into a continuous M-S signal, so
an attempt to count individual pings was abandoned in favour of the using
the received signal strength.