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Re:Maine County Deploys Wide-Area Emergency Public Radio Ser... by AWildC182 on Friday December 13, 2019 @05:06PM (#21786027)
That's one hell of an inefficient antenna. At a ~1MHz center frequency it's basically just a dummy load (resistor) that happens to radiate a little. 300 Watts at those frequencies on a long run of speaker wire with a matching transformer/unun at one end could get you 100s of miles during the day and 1000s of miles at night.
Re:Maine County Deploys Wide-Area Emergency Public Radio Ser... by floatingatoll on Friday December 13, 2019 @10:09PM (#21787545)
Speaker wire generally degrades in sunlight, so that might not be a valid comparison for the "disaster-resistant permanent installation" market.