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by micha_ross 3770 days ago
Anyone else think its kinda sketchy that they're just saying "sub-1Ghz" frequencies? There aren't a ton of options there, and they aren't secret information. This sounds like they're either heavy on the vaporware side of things and haven't figured out what they're doing, which doesn't bode well for them shipping anytime soon, or they are trying to do something which the FCC isn't going to approve, which again doesn't bode well for us getting this thing on pre-order

Anyone know if they're encrypted? I'm not seeing any mention of that, I think I might grab a goTenna if only for that reason

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>Anyone else think its kinda sketchy that they're just saying "sub-1Ghz" frequencies?

No. Why is that sketchy?

It's probably because it's different from their competition and they don't want to release that signal yet. I don't remember GoTenna pre-releasing their exact frequencies either.

~900MHz is pretty common for this sort of thing. I have a friend who uses the 900MHz spectrum for communicating with a hobby weather balloon.