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Abstract. A meteor radar located at Sheeld in the UK has been used to measure wind oscillations with periods in the range 10±28 days in the mesosphere/lowerthermosphere region at 53.5°N, 3.9°W from January 1990 to August 1994. The data reveal a motion ®eld in which wave activity occurs over a range of frequencies and in episodes generally lasting for less than two months. A seasonal cycle is apparent in which the largest observed amplitudes are as high as 14 ms A1 and are observed from January to mid-April. A minimum in activity occurs in late June to early July. A second, smaller, maximum follows in late summer/autumn where amplitudes reach up to 7±10 ms A1. Considerable interannual variability is apparent but wave activity is observed in the summers of all the years examined, albeit at very small amplitudes near mid summer. This behaviour suggests that the equatorial winds in the mesopause region do not completely prevent interhemispheric ducting of the wave from the winter hemisphere, or that it is generated in situ.