Astronomy Enthusiasts Observe Meteor Showers.

The UK Meteor Beacon Project is using amateur radio operators and amateur radio astronomers to research more about meteors as they interact with the atmosphere. A large radio beacon broadcasts a signal in the six-meter band which is easily reflected back to Earth off of meteors. Specialized receivers can pick up these signals, and are coordinated among a network of other receivers which stream the data they recover over the internet back to a central server. With this information, the project can determine where the meteor came from, some of the properties of the meteors, and compute their trajectories by listening for the radio echoes the meteors produce.