Version 3.0
HROFFT2RMOB work only under Windows® 95-98-2000-XP
Some users of HROFFT software by Kazuhiko Ohkawa asked me " how to create automatically my RMOB " ( Radio Meteor Observing Bulletin ) ?
Until today this was not possible, but now it is possible, with HROFFT2RMOB software.
How to use HROFFT2RMOB ?
Install ,then run HROFFT2RMOB, you see the screen below.
In first fill your NAME and edit OBSERVER.INI file with "observer" menu.
Use "File" menu and select "Open 1 file", next go to the HROFFT file directory to find the PNG files. Select one file, is automatically loaded and analysis.
Leonids 2004 peak over UK observed by Dave Swan.
Some red vertical lines appear over the down of the yellow lines. This is a "echoes"counted by HROFFT2RMOB and that increase the echoes count number ( Bottom left ). It is available to process many files by hourly, daily and monthly file menu. In all case the processing start automatically after the first file selected. This is not a problem if the file selected is not the first of the hour or the day or the month !
The length of echoes is automatically calculated by the soft and the value
displayed in column at right. Use "To clipboard" to copy the value into the
clipboard. Use "Paste" in NotPad for example to edit or use in another soft
these values.
Remark : This process work fine under my laptop with Win XP home and
doesn't work under Win XP home on a computer of Dave Swan ?????
The datas displayed at left or bottom is for 10dB signal. For 20dB and 30dB the values is stored in the output files DAT and RMOB (see below).
"Year of RMOB file" is the year into the name of the RMOB file, by default it is a computer currently date
LIVE processing ?
If your computer work every time with HROFFT you have many images files stored
onto your hard disk.
Live processing is for you !
This process read the last PNG file created by HROFFT every time+10mn, display
and analysis automatically this file at H + 10 minutes + 5 secondes (by
security).
Select one file and next the process search automatically the last PNG file
created by HROFFT.
If some PNG files miss in your month observations this is NOT a PROBLEM
for HROFFT2RMOB !
HROFFT2RMOB create two subdirectory in the directory of the PNG files is
stored, named DATA and RMOB.
Datas files is stored into this new subdirectory "DATA"
and "RMOB" in your HROFFT images directory
Example below : the directory of the images sources and this
2 subdir "data" and "rmob" created by HROFFT12RMOB.
In "data" subdir you find your DAT file (name_MMDDYYYY.dat).
In "rmob" subdir you find the RMOB files dB level.
DAT files what is it ?
The DAT files contain the time and count and length of the echoes measured
by HROFFT2RMOB for 10 dB, 20 dB and 30 dB level.
Below one example of a short part of DAT file.
The first column is the hour (UT), separator is "TAB" and next column is
a 10 dB count, 20 dB count, 30 dB count, 10 dB length (in seconds), 20 dB
length (in seconds), 30 dB length (in seconds).
H UT | 10 dB c | 20 dB c | 30 dB c | 10 dB L | 20 dB L | 30 dB L |
00:00 | 42 | 22 | 16 | 433 | 261 | 142 |
00:10 | 47 | 26 | 13 | 358 | 175 | 57 |
00:20 | 75 | 37 | 6 | 276 | 60 | 8 |
00:30 | 78 | 35 | 10 | 315 | 110 | 29 |
00:40 | 44 | 39 | 12 | 416 | 197 | 88 |
00:50 | 43 | 40 | 21 | 450 | 251 | 106 |
01:00 | 82 | 37 | 9 | 366 | 92 | 15 |
01:10 | 30 | 46 | 31 | 534 | 319 | 105 |
01:20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
RMOB files what is it ?
This is a TEXT file used by the Radio Meteor Observing Bulletin
http://www.rmob.org . It is a currently
data table for display your meteors counts and length measured.
After HROFFT2RMOB processing you have 6 RMOB files :
3 for the standard count of meteor per hour yourname_MMYYYYRMOB.TXT
3 for the length of the meteor expressed in seconds per hour
yourname_MMYYYYRMOB_len.TXT
All RMOB files is wievable in "image" file by using Colorgramme On Line on http://www.rmob.org
Below an example of Colorgramme image :
To download the last HROFFT2RMOB version go to http://radio.meteor.free.fr
HROFFT2RMOB is a FREE software
For more infos on HROFFT please contact :
Hiroshi Ogawa (University of Tsukuba, JAPAN)
mailto: HZH02257@nifty.ne.jp
homepage:
http://homepage2.nifty.com/~baron/
That all ! Good work,
Pierre Terrier january 2004