Leonid meteor shower

This year's Leonid meteor shower peaks on Tuesday November 17, so get your VHF equipment ready for some DX meteor scatter contacts.

The first debris stream will be crossed on November 17 around 0900 UT (4 a.m. EST, 1 a.m. PST). The next stream crossing will be between 2100-2200 UT.

Hopefully they will provide an abundance of Meteor trails that will reflect signals in the Amateur 50, 70 and 144 MHz bands allowing distances of up to 2,500 km to be worked.

Read the full NASA story at
http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2009/
10nov_leonids2009.htm

G7IZU Radio Reflection Detection Page
http://www.tvcomm.co.uk/radio/

Meteor Scatter Propagation
http://www.radio-electronics.com/info/propagation/
meteor-scatter/meteor-burst-communications.php

WSJT Meteor Scatter Software
http://www.physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjt.html