Title :
Meteor burst polarisation trials
Author_Institution :
SHAPE Technical Centre, The Hague, Netherlands
Abstract :
Measurements over an 850 km path show that radio waves reflected by ionised meteor trails are typically received with the same polarisation as they were transmitted. Furthermore, a vertically polarised wave seems to suffer a 3¿4 dB larger loss than a horizontally polarised one.
Keywords :
electromagnetic wave polarisation; radiocommunication; radiowave propagation; horizontal polarisation; ionised meteor trials; meteor burst polarisation; radio wave polarisation; radio wave reflection; vertically polarised wave;
Journal_Title :
Electronics Letters
DOI :
10.1049/el:19850802
