Topband: "Artificial" Propagation...?

[Eddy Swynar]

Hi All,

An on-line friend recently sent me this timely link re. an upcoming NASA experiment that involves the releasing of an aluminum oxide "cloud" some 60 miles above earth:

http://www.aopa.org/aircraft/articles/2012/120308nasa-rockets-spread-ghostly-glow.html?WT.mc_id=120309epilot&WT.mc_sect=gan

I wonder if the conductivity (if any) of this man-made cloud will have any effect upon radio propagation...? (Heaven only knows that the propagation on Topband this season has been far from stellar---"any and all assistance appreciated", Hi).

This could be of great benefit to VHF DX'ers, perhaps, if not us denizens of the nether-regions of the frequency spectrum...

~73~ de Eddy VE3CUI - VE3XZ