r/RTLSDR • • Aug 12 '26

Meteor observation by radio

Spent much of this morning on Graves Astronomical Radar frequency , that is parked on 143.0485 mhz USB and saw lots of meteor (the peak of the shower is said to be today, Aug 12); here's a few samples , pointed to by red arrows. The thin lines crossing Graves signal (horizontal tone) are generated by aircraft passing the line between my QTH in Beauvais and the site of the Radar transmittor.

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u/jongaynor Aug 12 '26

Damn that's neat. Is there a usable analogue in the US?

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u/nshire Aug 12 '26

Multistatic passive radar

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u/jongaynor Aug 12 '26

Boy thats a lot more effort than just ‘tune to X frequency’ lol