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metal_am on Dec 6, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Bouncing a LoRa message off the moon

I’m having a hard time seeing what’s special about this. This has been a HAM radio thing for a long time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth–Moon–Earth_communicati...

sneak on Dec 6, 2021 | [–]

They did it with a data modulation mode (LoRa) which has the following properties:

- it is very resistant to noise

- it is low power

- it is popular

- it is patented/proprietary

wrycoder on Dec 7, 2021 | | [–]

ham is not an acronym

ricardobeat on Dec 6, 2021 | [–]

It’s basically Wi-Fi to the moon. At very low bandwidth, but still amazing.

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