Instrumentation of the Belgian RAdio Meteor Stations (BRAMS)

BRAMS (Belgian RAdio Meteor Stations) is a network of radio receiving stations using forward scatter techniques to study the meteoroid population. The main goals are to compute meteoroid flux rates and mass indexes, determine individual meteor trajectories and orbital parameters of meteoroids, and to analyse meteor profiles in order to retrieve physical parameters of the meteoroids. For that purpose, a dedicated beacon is used together with 26 single-antenna receiving stations spread over Belgium, one dual antenna station and one interferometer. The instrumentation of this network is described in this paper.