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> Microwave is line-of-sight so here on the Colorado front range

In such places it was common to bounce microwave trunk lines with "passive repeaters": big aluminum reflectors, about the size of a highway billboard, setup wherever a line needed to get around an obstacle. There is an excellent article about it all here[1].

[1] https://computer.rip/2025-08-16-passive-microwave-repeaters....

parent topspin 8 months ago

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