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General Category => Weather => Topic started by: ThaDood on August 06, 2025, 1621 UTC
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https://www.space.com/stargazing/meteor-showers/the-perseid-meteor-shower-2025-peaks-aug-12-13-heres-what-to-expect-from-the-dazzling-cosmic-light-show Well, if you can't watch them, then you can listen for their 'scatter' effects. https://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST%2520Binaries/nt0z.pdf Then, there are hardcore FM Station DX'ers out there that setup multi-hour recorders on a weak, or empty, FM FREQ and see if an ID can be caught, or even a liner / jingle, that could be looked-up. A decent car stereo setup, with a 30", 1/4-wave, antenna, always seems to work the best for that. Either way, HAPPY DX'ing!!!!
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These are definitely worth checking out. Can also try VHF-lo TV dxing and for amateur radio operators, 6m.
I recently learned about SNOTEL, which are a bunch of snow monitors by the USDA that use meteor scatter to report their readings. Freqs that I've found (not verified) for them are 40.67, 40.53, and 41.53 MHz. Supposedly BNSF railroad uses (or used?) meteor scatter on VHF-lo band for some stuff (44.58 MHz, allegedly).
And HamSCI has events around these peaks:
https://hamsci.org/msqp
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The ARRL has a nice write-up on Meteor Scatter. https://www.arrl.org/files/file/QST%20Binaries/nt0z.pdf To me, once you get past the FM broadcast band, it becomes like 'what's the point' of hearing a fast-blast of maybe 1 syllable, or less, of scatter time. 11M CB Bands seems to be a nice FREQ sweet-spot for scatter. What I don't know is what the lowest FREQ Meteor Scatter can happen. Is there any INFO on that? Hmmmmmmmmm...