By my experience, reflections off meteor trails are usually very short duration. They go from about half a second to a couple of seconds. You don't hear any regular signals like you do with an E opening. You can't use SSB.
I've never actually communicated using meteor trails, but when there is an active meteor shower, I point my beam to the K0KP beacon in Duluth Minnesota. It runs 100 Watts and is too close for E skip. The only time I can hear it is during an aurora event, or via meteor trails.
When I do this, I hear bursts of CW come out of the noise as the ionized meteor trails flash across the sky. I might hear a few short dits and dahs, up to being able to copy the whole call sign of the beacon.
I've had the radio on for about 10 minutes listening on 50.073.. Can't hear anything yet.
I sometimes follow DXmaps.. They show meteor scatter contacts (MS) as blue lines.
http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&ML=M&Map=NA&DXC=N&HF=N&GL=N