Scatter from meteor trails in the ionospheric E region can cause signal enhancement, or isolated bursts of signal from a station not otherwise heard... (The A.R.R.L. Handbook).
By my opinion, M.S. is the best way to make DX QSOs on VHF, it's relaxing, amusing and not expensive (You don't need particular high sophisticated equipments).
I had my first complete QSO in Meteor Scatter in January 1981, with G3IMV, using an ICOM IC202, 200W and a 16 elements F9FT antenna, contact was made in CW at 400 LPM using a spool tape recorder, and a modificated memory CW keyer, TX/RX were 5 minutes periods (very heavy life for P.A. tubes !).
About forecast on Meteor Showers and other informations, You can visit: International Meteor Organization site.
I have in my log more then 1.000 MS QSOs (CW+SSB, Random+Skeduled and now WSJT) but I'm NOT tired to make MS !!
