Last Updated on October 17, 2025 by John Berry
There are several subsidiary mechanisms that are fleeting, or singular, augmenting the main propagation mechanisms listed on other pages. I’ve listed and described these anomalous propagation mechanisms here.
Aircraft scatter
Aircraft scatter (or perhaps more correctly, aircraft reflections) is a mechanisms that everyone experiences often when exploring others. It has two forms – as a reflected wave that interferes with the wanted to cause flutter, and as a DX mechanism in its own right providing communications over non-line-of-sight paths over hundreds of kilometres. The focus here is on aircraft scatter as a DX mechanism.