[Battlemesh] International links between Austria, Croatia, and Slovenia

[Henning Rogge]

If you have really long waves (that keep to the ground) or use waves
that are reflected by something up (atmosphere-layer, satellite,
moon!) it can work beyond LOS... with microwaves? Not so much. ;)

Henning

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 6:38 PM, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 5:38 PM, Gui Iribarren <gui at altermundi.net> wrote:
>>> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 11:49 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>> Ermanno Pietrosemoli et al [0] actually did a ~400km link on 2.4ghz,
>>> but those distances (including the defcon wifi shootout), are only
>>> possible because of the heights provided by generous mountains.
>>>
>>> [0]: https://interred.wordpress.com/2007/06/18/ermanno-pietrosemoli-has-set-a-new-record-for-the-longest-communication-wi-fi-link/
>>
>> Exactly... I was more worried about "curving of Earth" than about power.
>
> The NBP protocol mentioned before does not require line-of-sight.
>
> We are so used to WiFi that we might think that all communications
> require line-of-sight. This is not true. :-)
>
>
> Mitar
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