(meteorobs) RE: re: Info on Fireball electriks & Fair Weather Charge

[drobnock]

The question of meteor ablation and the generated electromagnetic energy
is going to be, at present, difficult to resolve.

Excluding, light energy and heat energy, but concentrating only on radio
frequency energy -  the supporters of VLF Signatures and electrophonics
are not going to agree with each other.

So far there is the position that the abation creates electrophonic
"sound" by causing a near by object to act as a
detector/rectifier/tranducer is one position. The size of the meteor is
a minimum of > -5 magnitude. Although meteors of lessor energy are
credited  to the creation of electrophonic sound.

Then there is the position that all meteors create RF electromagnetic
signatures in the very low frequency end of the spectrum. These
signatures can be detected with proper radios.

A review of the first reports of the propagation of the first RF
generating orbiting oscillator - Sputnik -may help explain why the
"reception" of electromagnetic signatures from a fireball are rare. The
location, elevation, and speed of the meteor ( as it was with the radio
signals from sputnik) make the signatures difficult to receive. It must
be remembered that the first satellite was transmitting on 20mhz. A
frequency whose propagation is affected by the various electron charges
in the atmosphere. Unlike VHF and above,  VHF RF energy penetrates the
atmosphere and goes off into space.

The answer to why meteors create RF energy may have been easier 50 years
ago, but today with the dependence of the radio in all forms -- wireless
routing for networking, cell phones, used of power lines for
communications, expermentation with VLF RF energy generators, and all
assorted radio devices available, the radio spectrum is noisy. And as
with light pollution, the radio sky is now getting polluted, making the
finding of a fireball signature more difficult.

A clarification maybe  needed -- the literature to date has not shown
that fireballs to produce detectable RF signatures in all parts of the
radio spectrum. If this was the case those conduction radar research
should have detected signals in the radar spectrum, and those conducting
research in scatter (FM/TV)  should have a signature from the meteor.

Good luck all.

George John Drobnock