Sunday, November 17, 2013

FM METEORS

These two plots show 2 meteors that were detected on my FM radio. It was tuned to 101.9 FM (KINK FM in Portland, OR). KINK is too far away for me to receive under normal conditions, but with an outdoor antenna pointed toward Portland and pointing upward at 30°, every once in a while when a meteor enters Earth's atmosphere between my location and Portland, the station will come in briefly.
The audio you hear is indicated by the spike on the left (plot).

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