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I'm using socat to emulate a PTY that I then run a PPP link over. socat gets its byte stream from an RTL-SDR and send out data using a tiny FM transmitter. After setting up these on both computers, I was able to SSH and ping google over FM radio.

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Do you have any page describing it?

I'll be uploading a video to my youtube channel in the coming weeks! Part 1 will be describing the link layer. Part 2 will be full duplex communication.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsRWsHhvzSoMgVfiNhy0NoA

Is it actually a FM transmitter, or is it FSK? Or something like AFSK?

Right, it is AFSK. The FM transmitter is something off the shelf, for car radios and such, meaning it has a low pass filter installed, along with spitting out a 19khz stereo carrier.

Thats pretty cool, I'll have to check out your video when you put it up. I'm under the impression that at least in the US, the legal limits mean this really wouldn't be useful past 100 feet or so, line of sight. That's assuming little to no co-channel interference and not using impractically large directional antennas on the receive side. Of course if you were able to frequency shift the transmitter up into the 2m band and had an amateur license, you could trivially go miles (and slightly less trivially 10s of miles).

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