Nick Szabo  🔑

Antenna is a multiband dipole 55' up, which is higher than the ideal NVIS arrangement. It works for 40m NVIS but not others. 20m is quite reliable at long distances even with these terrible solar conditions. Notice the St. Helena station reporting me only 4db under noise floor.

Interesting. Raises another issue, how willing and able are motivated but average people to set up a 55' tower vs. a lower-slung NVIS dipole from a painter's pole. I hope in future it can be not much harder than setting up a tent, plugging in some cables & installing software.

My general idea here is 100-900km range comms to get past political firewalls -- from portable (like camping equipment, not like pocket phones) rigs, simple enough for use by a motivated family trying to preserve as much as they can of their life savings from persecution.

Have you participated in an amatuer radio field day yet? That could be very instructive to see how knowledgeable hams communicate under conditions similar to what you're describing.

Nope sounds like a good tip.

It's like a LAN party but for nerds!

LAN parties were already for nerds; this is doubly nerdy which cancels and makes it cool.