Radio Observations during the Time of the Possible Ursid Meteor Shower Outburst

December 22, 2007

For Meteor Researchers:

Here are my raw forward scatter radio charts from 19:00:00 UT through 23:59:59 UT. 

My location is north central New Mexico, USA.  35.50 North Lat.  105.89 West Long.
 Charts below are in UT. My local time is -7 UT.   (1900 UT is 12 pm noon local Mountain Standard Time.)

My present radio meteor work is oriented toward fireball studies rather than individual meteor counting and I am logging
video camera fireballs in conjunction with my radio meteor array. Hence, I do not count individual meteors or dust particles.
All activity on the charts below is from meteor, dust and fireball. I cannot tell what is a possible Ursid in the full mix.

I am charting two separate ICOM PCR 1000 radios using Spectrum Lab V2.7 b18.
The top half of the chart above the white line is 61.250 MHz ( tv channel 3 video carrier wave)
and the bottom half of the chart is 83.250 MHz ( tv channel 6 video carrier wave.)

For any questions contact:
Thomas Ashcraft
Radio Fireball Observatory
ashcraft (at) heliotown.com
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