@Dianora Interesting, tell me more. This is a new thing to me.
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Zazzoo 🇨🇦 (zazzoo@wonkodon.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:02:01 JST Zazzoo 🇨🇦 -
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Harris👍Trump👎 (ve2uwy@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:01:59 JST Harris👍Trump👎 There are actually commercial systems that use ~45 MHz for reasonably reliable long distance comm paths using meteor trails ...
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Diane Bruce VA3DB (va3db@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:02:00 JST Diane Bruce VA3DB @zazzoo It's not a face of the hobby I have played with yet! (There is so much stuff to play with in this hobby) Basically meteor comes in started burning up and leaves an ionized trail that radio waves will bounce off of. The duration can be very short but it's long enough with the right computer program and equipment. (Yes we are in the 21st century now, no refrigerator sized stuff in my shack!)
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James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:06:56 JST James Morris @va3db @zazzoo setting this up is easy if you can do FT8 or WSPR already, and have something as simple as a dipole for 6m. Run wsjt-x in msk144 mode overnight during this weekend and see if you catch anything. I just set this up last night and it worked. Note that signals closer than 500km are probably not MS. -
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Diane Bruce VA3DB (va3db@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:07:07 JST Diane Bruce VA3DB @zazzoo @VE2UWY And we haven't even mentioned moon bounce or the amateur radio built satellites or or or...
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Zazzoo 🇨🇦 (zazzoo@wonkodon.com)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:07:08 JST Zazzoo 🇨🇦 @VE2UWY @va3db I love these days when I find out that something is a thing where I previously hadn't even thought there'd a be a thing to be.
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James Morris (jmorris@social.kernel.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:10:11 JST James Morris @va3db @zazzoo and btw, this was with no pre-amp, and a dipole for a different band. -
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Diane Bruce VA3DB (va3db@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:13:30 JST Diane Bruce VA3DB @jmorris @zazzoo I used to do 6m aurora on a long wire. For aurora a beam makes no real difference too! So I have a 6m beam now. I have no excuse. Bad ham. I'm a lid. ;)
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Diane Bruce VA3DB (va3db@mastodon.radio)'s status on Friday, 11-Aug-2023 02:13:50 JST Diane Bruce VA3DB @jmorris @zazzoo I have a sat station, (I helped port the original wsjtx !) and have been meaning to get into this for years... You know those roundtoits?
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