Al.Grant Posted December 16, 2019 Share Posted December 16, 2019 My meteor detector will probably be down later today and staying down for a week or so. We're having the soffits and fascia's done on the house and the antenna needs to come down. The antenna will just be laid on the garage roof so might still pick a few of the stronger hits up. The workmen gave me some good examples of what happens when heavy drills are running a few feet from the antenna/dongle .. The good thing is the script recognises 'noise' from meteors and doesn't count it. The section on the right is the Spec Lab Amplitude Bar and the red line shows the noise level. Interesting to see the difference between electrical interference and meteors. With meteors the red line stays pretty much at normal levels. In theory the antenna could go back up later in the week ....... but I think if I start drilling holes in the new facsia's it might just test my wife's sense of humour and tollerance levels 😡 +Ibbo and +Graham 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 No problem Al. Of course your better half will allow you to set it up again 😅 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Al I have downloaded a copy of Allskeye and it looks promising. Getting a little confused trying to set it up with my ASI 120 though. What settings are you using. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al.Grant Posted December 17, 2019 Author Share Posted December 17, 2019 8 hours ago, Graham said: Al I have downloaded a copy of Allskeye and it looks promising. Getting a little confused trying to set it up with my ASI 120 though. What settings are you using. Graham, I've posted a reply here ..... Al +Graham 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Graham Posted December 17, 2019 Share Posted December 17, 2019 Thanks Al I will have a read Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 We have "pings" https://www.dropbox.com/s/sng0a36r0rnhc4y/Meteor20191218140535.wav?dl=0 Al.Grant 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al.Grant Posted December 18, 2019 Author Share Posted December 18, 2019 15 minutes ago, Ibbo said: We have "pings" https://www.dropbox.com/s/sng0a36r0rnhc4y/Meteor20191218140535.wav?dl=0 Yay! 🙂 I do like those pings. My detector is still down and not likely to be back up until after Xmas ☹️ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ibbo Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Al.Grant said: Yay! 🙂 I do like those pings. My detector is still down and not likely to be back up until after Xmas ☹️ Thats a shame though you are not missing that many. you must get up and running for the storm of the quadrantids (seen about 4 - ever) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al.Grant Posted December 21, 2019 Author Share Posted December 21, 2019 Thankfully the workmen have all finished and gone now. The scaffolding will still be up until after New Year - which is great as I've got a couple of roof tiles to replace and can now get to them. As there won't be any work going on up there I think I'm going to try cable tie the antenna pole to the scaffolding so I should start to pick things up again. I'll need a new bracket to do a permanent fix to the wall. There is no chance in hell She Who Must Be Obeyed will let me loose with a drill on the new fascias! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+RonC Posted December 21, 2019 Share Posted December 21, 2019 (edited) Can't you put the antenna on the chimney stack with the TV aerial? (while the scaffolding is up) As high as possible with VHF antenna's! Edited December 21, 2019 by Ron Clarke added text Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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