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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">For APRS ops with a beam:</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">This month's QST has a page on the upcoming Perseids meteor shower (Aug</font></span><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri"></font></span><span lang="en-us"> <font face="Calibri">12,13)</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">A beam pointed at a high density APRS area about 500 to 900 miles or so away will likely capture overnight some DX packets from just conventional activity on 144.39 MHz Those in rural or low density traffic areas will have the best chance, since the local 144.39 activity will have lots of gaps in which to hear possible MS packets from afar.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">High density APRS areas in the USA to point at with your beam are the Northwest, SoCal, Midwest(Chicago), Florida, the NorthEast, Atlanta and texas.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Last time we did this was in 1998 and 18 people reported capturing DX APRS</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">packets:</font></span><span lang="en-us"> </span><a href="http://aprs.org/APRS-docs/LEONIDS.TXT"><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0563C1" face="Calibri">http://aprs.org/APRS-docs/LEONIDS.TX</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0563C1" face="Calibri">T</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">You don't have to do anything but point your beam, and in the morning, check your APRS radio's heard LIST to see if you captured any DX packets.</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Here is the original APRS docs on Meteor Scatter:</font></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"></span><a href="http://aprs.org/meteorsB4.html"><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0563C1" face="Calibri">http://aprs.org/meteorsB4.htm</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"><u><font color="#0563C1" face="Calibri">l</font></u></span><span lang="en-us"></span></a><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-us"><font face="Calibri">Bob, WB4APR</font></span><span lang="en-us"></span></p>
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