14076.5 khz USB is no more the crowd it used to be; but this afternoon I saw a QSO between Ohio (a long time veteran in that great 120 seconds mode) and Belarus.
I love this mode's signature.
we are monday 17th in France, and there are still a few stones falling from space; much less but still you can't miss it if you stay tune to your local distant 2m beacon for a half hour.
The sound it makes is here : https://app.box.com/s/q4a12rhcdo8t2rhkyugy981pok2sm91o
While I was sleeping, the sky bombarded France !
while sipping a drink with wife and son during the 90% eclipse, I had left my radio on Graves Radar (France) or 143.0485 mhz USB, and I was lucky to catch a strong stone passing by; on my recording it comes a bit before 1 minute (after a breif common burst) : this one was loud and long; a heck of a stone maybe.
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.