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From a balloon in almost 40km altitude. Still impressive but nowhere as impressive as I read this headline. I thought this was ground to ground...
by aw3c2 9y ago
From a balloon in almost 40km altitude. Still impressive but nowhere as impressive as I read this headline. I thought this was ground to ground...
- vvanders 9y agoGround-to-ground is limited by the curvature of the earth(unless you're bouncing things off the atmosphere like with HF radio). Generally even with a repeater on a mountain nearby the best you can expect is ~100mi.
- jws 9y agoThere are many spots on the Earth with longer LoS views. Here is an interesting list along with photographs people have made of them: https://beyondhorizons.eu/lines-of-sight/ https://beyondhorizons.eu/lines-of-sight/ The longest one with a photograph is 443km (275mi).
- DanWaterworth 9y agoComments like this are why I still read hacker news.
- mhh__ 9y agoIIRC the above link was the frontpage not that long ago. Very interesting
- telkamp 9y agoIndeed, this was pure line-of-sight, as the gateway was within the radio horizon of the balloon. Ground to ground would be more impressive, we have already seen ground distances with LoRaWAN of 320+ km due to atmospheric ducting. We'll look for more data and do a post about that later.