Geminids very active

[Mike Otte]

For Conrad and others just starting to do Radio meteors some inspiration!

[Conrad Cardano]

Hi

This is starting to progress.  I messed up with the software settings for Saturday night's Geminid event, so I recorded nothing.  I changed the setting for last night and did better.

I am using SDR Console with RMD.

Is there a way to verify my counts?  I noticed that there is no one else on the East Coast of the USA doing this.

Date             Hour(UT)    Meteors
2025-12-14    22                  4
2025-12-14    23                  7

2025-12-15    00                17
2025-12-15    01                13

2025-12-15    02                12
2025-12-15    03                  3
2025-12-15    04                  8
2025-12-15    05                  7
2025-12-15    06                  5
2025-12-15    07                  6
2025-12-15    08                  6
2025-12-15    09                  7
2025-12-15    10                10
2025-12-15    11                  5

On Sun, Dec 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM Mike Otte <mike....@gmail.com> wrote:

For Conrad and others just starting to do Radio meteors some inspiration!

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[Jim Brown]

What is RMD?

Jim
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[Mike Otte]

Counts are only relative.  Counts are dependent so much on your station, location, and many other parameters.  Counts during a normal non-shower day go up at local sunrise and are minimum at local dusk forming the "diurnal". These meteors are "sporadic" or background meteors.  So when you have more counts than that and usually they are longer lasting then you have a shower going on.  The two increased peaks are mostly the Geminids because the diurnal peak should be at 10-12 UT for you.

The Brits are trying to "Verify" meteors byt having a video camera watching the sky recording meteors ( I have one too) and a radio recording meteors.  They look for coincidents and do have some.  I have only had one years ago. It was closer to a fireball than a normal meteors. I was at the PC working and listening to meteors bam they both went off and recorded at meteor. After all most  meteors are 60 mile up and hundreds of miles away.

Mike Druzynski is in NewYork state near the top.

Congratulation on getting a station going.  I would love to see some of your meteors.  What frequenciy did you end up on?  I have not tried out RMD but there are more users now.

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[Mike Otte]

@Jim   RMD is a meteor analyzing/counting program.  You can see more about it at there web site.  I would start at rmob.org and go near the bottom where they showcase software and you can download it there.

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[Conrad Cardano]

RMD stands for "Radio Meteor Detector".  It is available at https://www.rmob.org/

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[Conrad Cardano]

Hi

I recorded meteors at 55.239 MHz.

I see others at recorded meteors at 54.309 MHz.  I will try that one some day.

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