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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by deutronium on Monday January 04, 2016 @07:45PM (#10840089)
Have a look for RFM98W (434Mhz) or RFM95W (868MHz) on aliexpress/ebay, they're around $14 there.

I know in the UK high altitude balloon community they've used them in flights - http://www.daveakerman.com/?p=1850

Although FSK works just as well in the case of balloons.

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Re:Wi-Fi Alliance introduces low power, long range Wi-Fi HaLow by awqrre on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:06AM (#10843017)
Ebay has them for less then $10, + $2 shipping (RFM98W (434Mhz) or RFM95W (868MHz))
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