Advanced meteor-burst radio for multi-media communications

This paper describes the advanced meteor-burst test bed (AMBTB) operated between Charleston, South Carolina and Verona, New York (750 miles). The AMBTB was established by the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to demonstrate the capabilities of multi-media communication via meteor scatter to prospective Government and commercial users. A demonstration site has also been established near ARPA headquarters in Arlington, Virginia. Currently, the AMBTB supports average hourly data-bit throughput in excess of 4 kbps. This throughput performance enables demonstration attendees to witness both text and digitized-voice communications via the AMBTB MB link. This paper describes the AMBTB configuration and presents some preliminary link-performance results.<<ETX>>