Meteor Burst Communications
18 TomWhitwell 2 4/20/2025, 6:49:13 AM ronaldelliott.com ↗
Comments (2)
stogot · 10d ago
It buries the lede but I eventually understood that they reflect the signal off the trail and this isn’t subject to destruction like a satellite could be
swalberg · 10d ago
The meteors leave a tail of ionized particles that people on the ground can bounce RF off of. Ham radio operators use this, e.g. the MSK-144 mode. Pretty cool to hear/see signals and know they were bounced off the tail of a meteor!