Perseids peak and getting used to MSHV

Around this time we have the perseids meteor shower which is coming back every year in August. It gives us radio experimenters a chance to experiment with software and contacts using these meteors to bounce our signals back to earth. I did some experiments in the previous years, even made a MS (Meteor Scatter) contact on 10m. If you're interested yo could read some info on my blog here.

One of the experiments I'm busy with is getting used to the more specialized software MSHV. It is not a lot different from WSJT-X but it takes some reading and configuration to get it to do what you want.

Unfortunately the last few days it was simply too hot in the shack. Temperatures rising to 32 degrees celsius (90 degrees F). And I had other things to do. But at least I managed 2  "new" band DXCC with MSK144 on the 4 meter band.

Today in the evening they expect the peak of the meteor shower, so I hope to do some more MS MSK144 contacts. If possible I might experiment with FSK441 as well.


If time and temperature allows I will try to be calling on both 4m (70.174MHz MSK144) or 6m (50.280MHz MSK144). I'll keep an eye on the ON4KST chatpage as well for anyone that is willing to make a contact sked.

Update 13-8: Just to keep in mind...

If you are beaming or looking to work stations who are West of you, then transmit in the 1st period.
If you are beaming or looking to work stations who are East of you, then transmit in the 2nd period.