{"id":62933,"date":"2025-05-13T05:34:49","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=62933"},"modified":"2025-05-13T05:34:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T09:34:49","slug":"meteor-burst-communications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/meteor-burst-communications\/","title":{"rendered":"Meteor Burst Communications"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Perseids<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dennis Dura, for sharing the following article from Hackaday: Radio Apocalypse: Meteor Burst Communications<\/a><\/p>\n

This piece explores Meteor Burst Communications (MBC)\u2014a method of bouncing radio signals off ionized meteor trails to enable long-distance communication without relying on satellites or infrastructure. Used historically in military systems, MBC remains a compelling option for resilient, beyond-line-of-sight communication\u2014even in grid-down scenarios.<\/p>\n

Check out the full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dennis Dura, for sharing the following article from Hackaday: Radio Apocalypse: Meteor Burst Communications This piece explores Meteor Burst Communications (MBC)\u2014a method of bouncing radio signals off ionized meteor trails to enable long-distance communication without relying on satellites or infrastructure. Used historically in military systems, MBC remains a compelling […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3],"tags":[3354,10815,10814],"class_list":["post-62933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","tag-hackaday","tag-mbc","tag-meteor-burst-communications"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-gn3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":58696,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/meteor-scatter-with-wsjt-x\/","url_meta":{"origin":62933,"position":0},"title":"Meteor Scatter with WSJT-X","author":"Robert Gulley","date":"January 17, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"(This is an article from the August 2023 edition of The Spectrum Monitor, used with the kind permission of Ken Reitz, editor -- Robert Gulley, K4PKM) Perseid meteor streak. 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