Harnessing Meteors for VHF QSOs

The QSO Today Ham Expo inspired me to prepare a video on how to work meteor scatter QSOs. It will be posted in the Project Gallery. Meanwhile, here’s the video, along with my slide deck. I hope this inspires and enables you to get on the air and make meteor scatter QSOs.

Meteor Scatter V1-FINAL Slide Deck

 

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  1. I first listened to meteor scatter several years ago before having any type of decent antenna. Last night, I decided to give it another try since there are a couple of showers occurring at the same time. I left the radio on 50.260 Mhz with WSJT-X running. When I checked the station today, there was about a page and a half of activity, however, something didn’t look right. No call signs were visible. Is this some new mode? I’ve pasted in a few lines from the band activity column to show what I’m talking about:

    52315 -5 13.3 1530 & 73
    053645 -5 8.3 1473 & RRR
    053700 -5 4.7 1501 & R-03
    053930 -4 1.4 1516 & R+06
    055600 -3 3.9 1526 & R+13
    055745 -4 4.5 1485 & R+16
    055930 -5 3.8 1462 & R+13
    055930 -3 10.5 1526 & RRR

    • Hi Fred, I’m not sure what’s going on there. The frequency of each decode is moving quite a bit to be coming from one transmitter. Plus, the signal report is relatively consistent. The “&” indicates that you’ve set things to MSK144. So it’s not a new mode. If you’re really curious, or see this again, perhaps the WSJT-X groups.io could provide more insight. Good luck.

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