[MLB-WIRELESS] hops over water - reflective properties of water for microwaves...

[paul van den bergen]

On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 02:24 pm, John Dalton wrote:
> I know some HAMs experiment with communications
> by bouncing lasers off clouds!  The other possibility
> is meteor trails.  It is possible to bounce radio
> waves off the plasma left by a meteor burning up.
> Communication is in bursts, but there are enough
> meteors out there to give useful average data rates.
> Going into pie in the sky mode, it would be an
> interesting project to build a global 'community
> wireless' network using meteor trails in place
> of satellites.  (Though it might turn out to just
> be HF radio reinvented??)
>
> Regards
> John
>
> (I've forwarded thsi to MW since some on the list might
> find this interesting.)

not so much pie in the sky as dust and ice, but yeah.

tunfortunately I shudder to think what teh media will make of this - what with 
SETI and all that - "hardware hacking nerd nutters looking for ET using 
WiFi..." Su-uuuure.... :-)

-- 
Dr Paul van den Bergen
Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
caia.swin.edu.au
pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
IM:bulwynkl2002
"And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones 
to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft. 
They say it is to see how the world was made."
Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824 

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