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Old 06-12-2010, 06:32 AM
Karls48 (Karl)
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In one of previous posts I said that I’m not getting any aircraft echoes from TV carrier. That was wrong, yesterday morning I had screen brightness control up and echoes from passing aircrafts were clearly visible.
I’m not registering that many meteors as I thought I would, but I think that’s due to using low gain antenna and pointing antenna at zenith. I think that only quite bright (overdense) meteors are captured. Anyhow, before it become permanently cloudy my video capture setup was not capturing that many meteors either. On some nights only four meteors per night. And that’s with 8mm lens that can see quite big chunk of sky and record meteors down to about 4 magnitude.
Now I’m trying to build some sort of BFO for Tecsun PL600 radio. Its FM coverage is 76-108MHz and there are few TV stations I could monitor in this frequency range. But build in BFO works only on SW band.
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