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Post by astromanian on Jul 6, 2014 23:58:07 GMT
Hi All,
Just a quick hello from me in Staffordshire.
I am about to engage in video meteorography utilising 2x Watec 902h mono cameras (Many thanks to William Stewart for these)
I have been recording meteor activity via radio backscatter from the GRAVES space defence beacon in Dijon , France using an Icom PCR1000 receiver and a 3el Yagi. I felt the need to correlate these detections with visual/video recordings. I was told about this site, hence my landing here!
My main interests are with radio astronomy, I am currently the acting membership secretary of the BAA Radio Astronomy Group (RAG). Feel free to contact me if you would like any further information of our observing projects or details of our forthcoming workshops.
Kind regards,
Ian Williams. 73 de M0TLM
ian@radio-space.co.uk 01827 310081
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Post by michaelmorris on Jul 7, 2014 12:08:12 GMT
Hi Ian I was about to post about this very subject. On Saturday I attended a workshop on setting up a radio meteor back scatter station, hosted by Nottingham AS. It was a very interesting workshop. I went to find out about how I might correlate data from the video meteorography station I am setting up with radio data. From what I can tell, whilst there might be a bit of leakage out of the back of the GRAVES transmitter, the majority of the signal beams south. Therefore it is likely that most of the back scatter meteor signals received in the UK will be from meteors well to the south of Dijon. If this is indeed the case, it would not be possible to correlate individual radio meteor events record using the GRAVES transmitter with video observations from the UK. Receiving set ups in the UK can pick up ISS passes with this equipment, so it should be relatively simple to look at the date and time of this radio data and correlate this with ISS ground track data to confirm the direction of GRAVES derived radio data. Apparently, there are much lower powered transmitters in/closer to the UK. www.britastro.org/radio/projects/BRAMS_Meteor_Radar.pdfwww.microwavers.org/indexb.htmThese might be used to correlate UK based video and radio data. Because these sources are much weaker than GRAVES, it would require the use of different and more powerful antennae.
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