The folks at spaceweather.com have come up with something really cool. We are now in the final phases of the annual Leonids meteor shower. I can't see many meteors through my light-polluted skies (plus its COLD out there), but Spaceweather Radio has come to the rescue. They currently have on-line the audio feed from a receive station tuned to the freq of the The Air Force Space Surveillance Radar. It transmits 24/7 on 216.98 MHz. It is reported to be on of the most powerful transmitters in the world. You can hear the "pings" caused by the reflections of meteors. I've heard several as I typed this post! Be sure to visit the "how we do this page." I appears that there is ham running the receive station.
Occasionally I hear a longer tone. Could that be the reflection of a Low Earth Orbit satellite going over the site?
Finding Your Best Crystal Radio 'DX Diode' (Part 2)
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Readers may recall my summertime blog, "*Finding Your Best Crystal Radio
‘DX Diode'*". It described a theoretical method I tried in order to see
which o...
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