Evidence is presented showing that the gradient drift (type 2) irregularities are the most probable scatterers responsible for equatorial sporadic E (Esq) echoes observed on conventional equatorial ionograms and that the two-stream (type 1) irregularities are not detectable at ionosonde wavelengths (1–10 MHz).
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Balsley et al. (1976) studied this question.
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