Blaise

I was adapting an oldie, but a goodie!

You know, every radio is illegal, if you use it wrong enough...

"As I mentioned in my previous missive on the matter..."

*Researches* Holy shit! Of course the atmosphere has different refractive properties depending on density! With all the "Fields and Waves" bullshit they shoved into my head, I have no idea how I never realized this. The atmosphere is a gradient prism...

Ahh! So it was just luck of the draw... Well, I suppose that still really validates the strength of the technology. A milliwatt transmitter that can be detected 800 miles away under *any* circumstances seems pretty impressive...

OK, here's one for the folks that actually understand how EM propagation works in practice: A couple of years ago, the current distance record was set for LoRa at more than 800 miles. The communication was between a fishing boat and one of the buoys in its fishery across open ocean. https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/article/new-lora-world-record-1336-km-830-mi Frankly, I'm confused as to how that happened when, by my best guestimates, the unit on the buoy has a horizon at around 4 miles. The one on the boat, due to its greater height, had a horizon at more like 15 miles, but that still doesn't make it better! Now, I was under the impression that signals in the 800-1000 MHz range sere strictly line of site, with neither ground nor sky propagation. Nonetheless, this event would imply that either I'm completely wrong about how EM propagation works, or somebody's fibbing...

I believe bubble-gum is the standard...

I spent a decade in this Asia too. The one thing I never understood was why they would sometimes do both, using a spelling of their westernized Chinese (etc.) name with such bad phonics that westerners couldn't help but pronounce it wrong. So now they had the 'westernized' name they introduced themselves to you with, the name everyone who hadn't spoken closely with them or been corrected used for them based upon spelling, and their original Asian name. Somehow, we survived the 90s...

You need to look out for those krakens...

This man governments!

What about the protestors? Are they using GMRS too?

*Proving* it is an entirely different matter...

Just because lots of people are mistaken at once, doesn't mean they're right!

You know, after I posted that glib reply, I started thinking (which is always super-dangerous, according to some people: People like my wife and closest friends!)... Because of the broadcast nature of LoRa technology, where every transmission is just put out there with the hope someone will help you get it where it's going, I actually don't think it *does* technically fit the definition of a network!

The little handheld power bricks OP was talking about can often have minimal BMS, if any. Especially if you got it from Ali Express! She's a hard lady to find, that Miss Conception.