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A consumer protocol, but also way over consumer power level (350W). No wonder it's the furthest LoRa message sent. Let's bump it up to 1kW and break the record again...

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That was the Effective Radiated Power. The actual transmitter was outputting consumer output levels.

I thought most FCC rules are based on effective power and that this wouldn't be legal for terrestrial/consumer use?

Correct.

1kW? Are you crazy??? Let's see 25mW, which is the maximum you are allowed to use in Germany for 868 MHz ...

I agree, if we are doing this, go big. 1MW would be far more exciting and the experiment definitely wouldn't go unnoticed.

To be fair, it can do a few km at 25 mW, which is fairly good for consumer range.

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