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> Microwave is line-of-sight so here on the Colorado front range In such places it was common to bounce microwave trunk lines with "passive repeaters": big alu
by topspin 8mo ago
> Microwave is line-of-sight so here on the Colorado front range
In such places it was common to bounce microwave trunk lines with "passive repeaters": big aluminum reflectors, about the size of a highway billboard, setup wherever a line needed to get around an obstacle. There is an excellent article about it all here[1].
[1] https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters.html https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters....
- ericwood 8mo agoThese are super cool and I've never seen one before! I'd imagine most of the passes I'm in are within spitting distance of at least one town so powering a substation isn't out of the question. It seems like most of the installations are very much "middle of nowhere" situations. I hope to run across one of these in person!