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Listen To The Leonids

Posted by michael on from the snap-crackle-pop dept.

Earendi1 writes "Space.com has an article indicating that it's possible to "listen" to the Leonid meteor shower on radio and television. Basically, it explains that meteors can cause reception of weak, distant radio stations in the FM band and TV stations between channels 2 & 6."

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  1. HSMS by MaggieL · · Score: 4, Informative

    Quite true. Radio amateurs experiment with sending messages by this method; it's called "meteor scatter". See:

    http://www.qsl.net/dk3xt/hsms.htm

    and

    http://www.nitehawk.com/rasmit/ws1_15.html

    73 de Maggie K3XS

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    -=Maggie Leber=-