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Re:Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown,Phones back. How to... by tdeck on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @06:59AM (#46615072)
Just to underscore this WSPR sends 50 BITs of data in 110.6 seconds - a data rate of less than 2 baud. It's not practical for really any kind of message passing. Using CW (Morse code) would be at least an order of magnitude faster.
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Re:Ask HN: Iran's 120h internet shutdown,Phones back. How to... by bb88 on Thursday January 15, 2026 @09:28PM (#46642313)
But then you're no longer in the noise floor. That makes you triangulable and bomb-able.
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