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		bigfatkitten 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: FreakWAN: A floor-routing WAN implementing a chat ... Yep. There are cubesats running LoRa payloads in low earth orbit[0], and between mountaintops, terrestrial paths of hundreds of km are possible[1]. [0] https://www.hackster.io/news/fossasat-1-an-open-source-satel... [1] https://meshtastic.org/docs/overview/range-tests/

embedding-shape 3 months ago [–]

> Using metal tape measures to build simple quarter-wave monopole antennas is a hack to that’s actually pretty common in the small satellite community

This is just too crazy, thanks a lot for sharing these links! :)

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