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Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things by olympus on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:42PM (#10474124)
What's your callsign? I'll see if I can pick you up with my RTL-SDR+Ham-it-up and maybe once I have my ham license I'll talk back.

Every now and then I find a post on HN that really makes my day and I realize how awesome this community is and how our interests overlap beyond computer programming and entrepreneurship. This is one of them.

Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things by th0ma5 on Friday October 30, 2015 @12:44AM (#10476198)
Well, I'd appreciate a report on the WSPRNet page once you get your ticket. I'm W8KV, but I don't know that I'm putting out all that much, and when I look at streetview of the houses of the people that pick up the signal they have some crazy setups! That said, I was able to receive PSK31 from France here in Ohio back before I got my ticket with just an old AC extension cord strung along the ceiling as an antenna, so keep playing with things, you never know what all will work.
Re:How New Long-Range Radios Will Change the Internet of Things by kc2zuf on Thursday October 29, 2015 @04:49PM (#10474177)
Not the OP but I'm on WSPR on 20m right now as KC2ZUF!