• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    5 hours ago

    What the hell happened to RF? Did we lose spread spectrum? Why does this have to happen over satellite? Does everything have to be high speed IP based to get the job done? Are all the HAM’s dead?

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      5 hours ago

      Theyre small, light, and have a low energy profile. It’s pretty hard to jam a satellite. You can transfer data pretty fast and reliable and without range limitations. If you lose a device, the enemy still cant listen because they get locked out of the device.

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        4 hours ago

        RF mesh would totally fit the bill on everything except fast. As far as listening, you can just do data over RF with the same security level as the sat.