Meteor Scan Live Feed. WHAT the HECK !!!????

The grid and block patterns it had today several time I found most interesting.

All is well. This was explained on the Solar Thread by Spittin Cesium. I've clipped it below. Short story: We are having a geomagnetic storm, the meteor scan picks up the energy.

(THANKS SC)

Sounds about right since it is consistent barrage of positively charged particles :)

RADAR METEOR ECHO LIVE from spaceweather.com here: [link to topaz.streamguys.tv]

lol morons... fail functioning hardware... cause of a solar storm...

when are u suntards learning something new?

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This is an unwanted direct signal from our Radar Source in France, caused by Tropospheric Propagation.



Not to be confused with "Sporadic E" which is generally a summer phenomenon and occurs 60 miles up in the Ionospheric E-layer, Tropospheric Propagation ("Tropo" or "Ducting" for short) is caused by temperature inversion low down in Earth's atmosphere. Where warmer and colder layers meet, a "duct" will be formed where radio waves (typically VHF and UHF) are "piped" along the duct where they escape many hundreds - or thousands - of miles away. Foggy conditions (which are also caused by temperature inversion) are often a good indication of this happening.

When our operators see this on their respective screens they can often pick up FM broadcasts from Froggie stations 88-108MHz (mostly 100-108MHz).

At Sidmouth and along the South Coast UK we get it this strong about 8 to 10 occurrences a year, each lasting typically 2 to 3 days. In these circumstances, South Coast UK Radio Amateurs would be able to make VHF/UHF contact with Froggie Radio Amateurs. I've attached an image from Sidmouth at 18:50UTC this evening (Wed). When we see this on our screens, we are receiving the direct radio wave from the G-R-A-V-E-S Radar in France.



Try out our MultiScreen: [link to www.merriott-astro.co.uk]



The additional attached 2 images are of typical meteor detections and what we normally see.



The straight line of “spikes” that you are seeing this evening are the DIRECT radar “blips” coming from our radar station in France. We normally can’t see these “blips” because the radar is out of sight over the horizon, but during Tropospheric weather conditions (like we are experiencing tonight) the radar signal gets bent and follows the curvature of the Earth to reach us as a direct signal, which is actually what we don’t want!



Think of it as the radio waves are acting like a mirage – like when you can “see” over the horizon.



Thanks for your interest.

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Extract.....
"It's slacking off now.
Wish I knew what it was….

Is anyone near the observatory that can comment here?"

I live 10 miles from the Meteor scan site, I have a wide band spectrum analyzer, 90% plus of what is being broadcast is Interference, inter mod, passing air planes, etc etc, explain how you can get a 1 minute constant trace, perhaps the meteors are coming in waves, its all a scam I think you should change the title of this thread to Meteor SCAM,
I do think that perhaps 1% of the traces are meteors, but what about the 99% of rubbish, try goggling the person that runs the site on QRZ (M1000)read the rant there..........all will become clear.......well at least a lot clearer than the live feed.