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Re:Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergen... by TeMPOraL on Monday February 03, 2020 @04:17AM (#22222640)
> I'm sure that my worldly and knowledgeable older self wouldn't have even tried it as a solution, assuming it wouldn't work.

You have to keep reminding your older self that everything that conducts electricity can be used as an antenna in a pinch :). Up to and including your own body, or a stream of salt water squirted from a tube (in fact I recall reading about military testing out such antennas made of sea water on ships).

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Re:Amateur radio skills prove useful during bushfire emergen... by blaser-waffle on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:26AM (#22224352)
In a college class we tried using rockets for transmitting.

Like, the middle-school "rocket club" style rockets, a simple kit with a control board, and another that just had a very large spool of wire a la guided anti-tank missiles. They both sorta worked. Had to get clearance from the local airport about it, actually.

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