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Google Building a 100kW Transmitter at Spaceport America (hackaday.com)

Posted by timothy on from the well-where-do-you-keep-yours? dept.

szczys writes: Google is building a 100kW transmitter at Spaceport America. As is becoming the regular source of early info, this comes via an FCC filing in which Google has asked the agency to keep the project secret. The signal strength itself isn't [groundbreaking] until you learn this is a directional antenna. Some of the most powerful FM radio transmitters get to 100kW, but those are omnidirectional. This is a highly focused directional antenna and that makes it sound like a big piece of Google's hushed Broadband Drone program.

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  1. Re:No, HALF a watt. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was wondering what they were going to do with 100kW through a highly directional antenna, supply satellite TV to Mars?

  2. Tinfoil hat by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Funny

    And you guys made fun of my tinfoil hat! Who is laughing now???

  3. Re:No, HALF a watt. by Adriax · · Score: 5, Funny

    Google Eye of Sauron.

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  4. Re: No, HALF a watt. by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shush, we're hysterical with misinformation and misunderstanding.

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