🚀 go-pugleaf

Richard Childers (pascal@netcom.com) wrote:

: 	"It's a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for us", because of the
: 	expected intensity of the shower, said Russ Bentson of Belmont,
: 	an electrical engineer who has been talking to fellow amateurs
: 	with his single-sideband ham outfit for more than 30 years. About
: 	50 other Bay Area amateurs will be making the same attempt, Benston
: 	said.

: 	His normal range for transmitting signals in the two-meter band,
: 	he said, is about 400 miles. But by reflecting his transmissions
: 	off the ionized debris that trails behind the Perseid meteors,
: 	Bentson expects to chat with radio friends as far as 2,000 miles
: 	away for the first time. He and his colleagues will be broadcasting
: 	at a frequency of 144.2 megahertz, for those who want to tune in.

There are a few of us that will be experimenting with FM meteor-bounce - listen
for us on 146.52.

: The University of Texas' excellent astronomical show ( which I don't recall
: the name of, but have heard, through its many incarnations, on public radio,

Stardate.
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