telkamp

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   by telkamp 9y ago

   Yes, we reached this 700+ km gateway at SF9 (1758 bps) and SF11 (537 bps).
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   by telkamp 9y ago

   Agreed, it's not the distance on itself that is impressive, but the fact that it is achieved with very small off-the-shelf hardware, a short piece of wire as antenna, license-exempt ISM band, on a freely available IoT data network that
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   by telkamp 9y ago

   Indeed, 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