Meteor Burst Communication System

The Boeing Meteor Burst Communication System was tested in Alaska for a thirty day period beginning February 14, 1975. During the testing program the base station was located in Anchorage and remote field units were operated from Fairbanks, the Caribou-Poker Creeks Research Watershed (located approximately 35 miles north of Fairbanks), McGrath, Bethel, Kotzebue, Prudhoe Bay, Dietrich Camp, and Delta Junction with the first two stations serving as the primary source of the data. A total of approximately 40,000 messages were received by the base station from the various remote units.