Getting started in Meteor Scatter (MS)

I’d like to share with you all my passion for working station on VHF (6m, 4m and 2m) using Meteor Scatter (MS) as the propagation mode.  I do this during the peak of the Perseid meteor shower which makes the chance of decoding stations with a modest VHF station much more likely, by modest I mean an FT-817/SDR and a collinear, although a beam would be better.  It’s much easier that many think and a friend 2M0ZFG IN Arrochar with his 500m hills all around him QTH using an FT-817radio + V2000 with RG-58 has been decoding MS pings on 2m……

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