Chinese surveillance balloon

[Yardley]

It has to transmit and receive.

Has anyone been able to hear anything from this thing?

Remembering Sputnik, I'm very surprised the amateur radio/monitoring community hasn't been all over this.

[Shortwave_Listener]

They shot it down off the coast of Carolina today, looks like your too late.

[Yardley]

Yes, but it is still possible someone was able to hear something, if it was indeed communicating.
Hope someone will "rise" to the occasion, and not be full of "hot air"! 

[Pigmeat]

Sputnik "beeped" in the MW band. It was the USSR's way of saying, "Up yours, America!" every time it went over.

[sat_dxer]

Sputnik "beeped" in the MW band. It was the USSR's way of saying, "Up yours, America!" every time it went over.

Sputnik "beeped" on 20 & 40 MHz;
The only "beeping" on MW was as to why Ike was out playing golf while the Russians were preparing a satellite. 

[Pigmeat]

Sputnik "beeped" in the MW band. It was the USSR's way of saying, "Up yours, America!" every time it went over.

Sputnik "beeped" on 20 & 40 MHz;
The only "beeping" on MW was as to why Ike was out playing golf while the Russians were preparing a satellite.

Ike was cool like that. He'd won the war in Europe, he wasn't sweating a metal cantaloupe with whiskers circling overhead.

[Josh]

Dunno if they still have the links up but the balloons were commercially available worldwide, however chicom mil modified theirs a bit, theirs had things they could deploy/eject, among other goodies. I presume the balloons used sats to communicate the imint/sigint harvest back to Peking.