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Kolesar

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1. Canada has a broadcast airplane that is powered by microwave RF beamed at it from the ground

Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 07:03 AM

Aug 2013

It stays aloft for months. It has to broadcast over a huge area, so it needs a lot of "power". Solar would not work at latitudes near 60 degrees north, since it can be dark for 18 hours/day in December.

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Canada has a broadcast airplane that is powered by microwave RF beamed at it from the ground Kolesar Aug 2013 #1

Thanks for the RF drone information. n/t unhappycamper Aug 2013 #2