Geminids by radio - fingers crossed!

[Gasman]

Hi guys

Since the sky here in York looks like it might let us down for a visual of the Geminids I have a 2m aerial pointing at Dijon which from York is about 144 degrees and doing some back of fag packet calculations it seems the Geminid radiant should be at 144 degrees azimuth point around about 00:45 Monday morning so with a bit of luck I might pick up some reflections from the meteors when the aerial is pointing in the direction of the radiant.

Instructions are from an old copy of Astronomy now -

equipment -

2m aerial

connected to Funcube dongle plus

running Spectrumlab  with the FCD tuned to 143048 khz

This is a typical grab of a day to day plot nothing special happening at the moment   hopefully a bit busier later!

cheers

Steve

[David Smith]

With the weather the way it is at the moment I can see radio observations becoming more and more popular. Will be interesting to see your results.

[laudropb]

It's is absolutely pouring with rain here, so no visual possible. Hope you have some luck and look forward to seeing your results.

[Gasman]

Hi Peeps

Getting some good hits, seems to be a bit more activity now!

Getting some good audio too if I can suss out how to save/post a link for them!

Steve

[Gasman]

Seems to have gone a bit quieter now will try again tomorrow night !

Managed a couple of 8bit .wav files , you get a `chirp` or a `whistle` sound depending on intensity of signal.

Geminids2015_0047.WAV

and another

Geminids2015_0066.WAV

cheers

Steve