Interesting I was reading a low powered hospital station was potencially been heard the other side of the country by aircraft scatter. I’ve often heard it on 10w rsls, maybe walking around, lot of times its a small plane, it makes the signal fade, the plane goes away the signal comes back, guessing it must be acting as a reflector, I don’t know how something so small could have such an effect, perhaps the different waves cancel each other out, the only way I can square it.

Sometimes it can also get confused with troposperic reception, i’ve heard it at home, makes a low power signal sound like its coming along way, low powered signals are hardly effected at all by troposhperic reception, just aswell as you’d have lots of stations obliterating each other.

Personally i’ve not heard any station traveling long distance by aircraft scatter, sometimes i’ve had my radio on for long periods tuned to 87.5, hoping I might hear something, I don’t know if you need to live near an airport to make it work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airplane_scatter

It was on the fm watchdogs facebook thing, you can’t link directly to it facebook doesn’t allow it, maybe there should be a group yorkshire pirates or something.

Living near an airport helps.

How does it work ? Because of the height they're flying at planes have LOS to potentially hundreds of Km and being pretty reflective can bounce signals towards the ground.

Theres talk of building giant airships again, the giant bum has been taking off from Doncaster, it does make me wonder, if they have a steel structure they could be reflective.