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teraflop on April 10, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: First trans-Atlantic contact made on 432 MHz

Amateur radio equipment in the so-called HF band can get you non-line-of-sight transmission. You'll need a really big antenna, and you'll need to be content sharing a few hundred kHz of spectrum with everyone else on the same continent.

JshWright on April 10, 2020 | [–]

"Big" doesn't necessarily mean "heavy" or "bulky" though. A decent length of lightweight wire and a tree can get you a very long way.

jimhefferon on April 10, 2020 | [–]

You can have a lot of contacts with a pretty minimal wire antenna, such as a dipole.

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