Not that. It creates atmospheric conditions where certain bands can bounce off the ionosphere and transmit beyond the horizon. Hams can get pretty damn far around the whole globe.
Edit: I was checking on the details of how far hams can go, and Google’s AI slopped this out:
The “longest ham ionosphere bounce” refers to a phenomenon called moonbounce (EME, or Earth-Moon-Earth), which is an amateur radio communication technique that sends signals off the Moon’s surface back to Earth, covering a distance of approximately 770,000 kilometers (478,000 miles) round trip…
No, bad LLM! Moonbounce and Ionosphere bounce are distinct things.
Not that. It creates atmospheric conditions where certain bands can bounce off the ionosphere and transmit beyond the horizon. Hams can get pretty damn far around the whole globe.
Edit: I was checking on the details of how far hams can go, and Google’s AI slopped this out:
No, bad LLM! Moonbounce and Ionosphere bounce are distinct things.