The 2014 Perseid meteor shower will be peaking between today and Wednesday. Here is some advice on observing them: Perseid Meteor Shower: How to See August’s ‘Shooting Stars’ – Space.com’.
The International Meteor Organization offers citizen scientists a way to participate in monitoring the event : Perseids 2014: visual data quicklook.
You can also listen to meteors via the radio signals they generate : Build Your Own Radio Telescope to Listen to Meteors – Science Friday.
Here’s a project on building your own radio telescope:
- Itty Bitty Telescope – NRAO
- Little Bitty Telescope Version 2 and LBT Experiment No. 1 – SETI League (pdf)
Find more amateur radio astronomy resources in the HobbySpace Space Radio section.