Technology
Because the broadcasting antenna for Stratovision is usually hung beneath the aircraft in flight, it naturally has a great command of Line-of-sight propagation. Although transmission distances are dependent upon atmospheric conditions, a transmitting antenna 30,000 feet (9 km) above the Earth's surface has a line of sight distance of approximately 211 mi (340 km).
A Stratovision 25 kW transmitter operating from 30,000 feet (9 km) at 600 MH will achieve a field intensity of 2 millivolts per meter for a 30-foot (9 m) high receiving antenna up to 238 miles (383 km) away from the aircraft.
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