During the Christmas break, I set up a small radio experiment with a simple goal: could a low-cost software-defined radio detect the rise and fall of a real meteor shower? Between 29 December 2025 and 9 January 2026, I ran an RTL-SDR dongle continuously to monitor a...
For years I’d read about radio meteor scatter – the idea that you can detect meteors you can’t see by listening to radio reflections in the upper atmosphere. Over the Christmas period I decided to stop reading and actually try it, using inexpensive hardware and...
