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Re: (meteorobs) Meteor Trails Are Being Used As Cheap Alternative To Satellite Systems (fwd)
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>Hi,
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>A similar company effort called 'Meteor Burst Communications' is
>operational in The Netherlands since 2-3 years. Visitors of the 1996 IMC
>have heard a talk on that.
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>-Marco
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Meteor-scatter communications is not new. Pioneer systems were
developed in Canada back in the 1950's. The cloak and dagger boys were
trying to develop a reliable communications system for Canada's military for
use in the north. Ferranti-Packard Electric, Ltd. of Toronto built a system
called JANET. See Meteor Science and Engineering by D.W.R. McKinley (1961).
Stanford Research Institute in the USA was working on a similar system. The
project was abandoned when reliable satellite systems were built. Later, a
forest fire management system was set up to automatically monitor forest
fire threats in the USA.
Ed
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Edward Majden epmajden@mars.ark.com
1491 Burgess Road Meteor Spectroscopy
Courtenay, B.C. AMS Affiliate
CANADA V9N-5R8 MIAC Associate
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