Kites can be used for radio purposes, by kites carrying antennas for MF, LF or VLF-transmitters. This method was used for the reception station of the first transatlantic transmission by Marconi. Captive balloons may be amassed convenient for such experiments, because kite carried antennas cause a lot of wind, which may be not always possible with fat equipment and a ground conductor. It must be Kites taken into explanation during experiments, that a conductor carried by a kite can direction to a high voltage toward ground, which can endanger people and equipment, if suitable precautions (grounding through resistors or a parallel resonant-circuit tuned to transmission frequency) are not taken.

Kite festivals are a favored mold of entertainment throughout the world. They include small local events, traditional festivals which have been held for hundreds of years and over international festivals which attend in kite flyers from overseas to display their unique art kites and demonstrate the latest technical kites.