Re: [44net] LoRa

Since we really need some other data radio options in the hobby, I wanted to mention LoRa.

It's a chirped spread spectrum technology used for low power WAN applications, with air transfer rates: 300bps-31.2Kbps. There are 433 MHz modules, as well as 900 MHz and 2.4 GHz.

Indeed it is interesting, I have looked at it as well when a local telecom company recently announced it has deployed a country-covering network. (by mounting LoRa equipment at all cell towers and locations)

They use 900 MHz, which is not a ham band here. But 433 could be useful.

It is unfortunate that the datarate is too low for many applications. It could be interesting for APRS-like mobile datacomm or other telemetry, which is also what the commercial network is for.

Rob