On forward scatter of radio waves from meteor trails
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In this paper, a new approach to forward scatter of radio waves from meteor trails is exposed. The attention is drawn to some macroscopic characteristics of a meteor plasma and it is shown that electron-ion collision frequency is not negligible, as commonly thought. A simple formula for calculations of radio waves maximum attenuation after the forward scattering is also pre-
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