@@Roy_Tellason Same here, approx 14 to be exact... But at his age My best friend (from Middle School) and I hiked the Bristlecone Pines Trail, California White Mountains, at around 11,000ft to see a 4,000 year old Tree, but those days are now nothing more than a memory, and something to brag about I guess..This was a interesting Trek and he did get out for some beautiful countryside and set a record at the same time.
Excellent video Andreas, great work on the range, and happy birthday!!! I will have to take a look at those mapping examples and test my locations. My units will be working in forest areas, so only needing 1-2km max range. I will let you know when I get my units into the field for testing.
Let alone this impressive feat, what a beautiful territory with incredible history. Thanks for sharing this. These castles just got added to my travel list.
First of all happy Birthday :-) and congratulations on such a long distance and the world record! Maybe you should do more field trips, it was very interesting as always. Keep your good work, it's always a pleasure to see a video from you!! Best wishes
Good fun! A converted WIFI Grid antenna will double that range again. Rule of thumb is, 6dB = double the range. Show your experiment to the local Ham Radio club!
Actually, the link budget is so high with this technology that 6 db do not matter a lot (I did not believe it at first). So, the only thing which matters is line of sight. The link budget is good for more than 1000 km (without antenna gain, because this is legally not allowed on this free band). BTW: I am also a (inactive) Ham.
I think there are more toys on the free bands than on the ham bands now - it is a very interesting time to play with any radio and electronics gear. The 6dB rule always applies - If you can find 6dB, you get double the range.
+Steve Wright In this experiment I had a connection from one place and no connection 100 m away from where I was. The difference between line of sight an no line of sight is easily 50 or more dB. You can simulate this using the link in the description. So, in theory you are of course right. But only, if all other parameters do not change. And this is not the case here because the earth is not flat ;-) And I was at the outmost possible point where the earth did not interfere with the waves.
Amazing result Andreas! Congratulations on your record and your age milestone. You have single handedly steered me towards LoRa and IoT as a next phase in my self education and I am researching daily. Really looking forward to getting some projects moving so thanks again for a very well presented story. Garry
Sir, you are my favorite TH-camr! Your videos are entertaining, very educational and aspiring! Great sense of humor, great presentation skills and lots of lots of charm! Thank you for sharing with us.
happy birthday from Russia. i wish u a good siberian health! and stay always positive. thx for your videos. its always usefull or at least interesting ;) thx friend
Thank you for all your amazing contributions. Would you consider doing a side by side comparison of Lora vs Sigfox? Sigfox has my city covered, (San Francisco) and seems to offer a better alternative.
Fun to watch! I still have the time I was walking on hills with radio sets to do range tests in good memory. I recognized the area around wegelnburg because I live near there. Did you think about going a bit more north to extend the record? Kalmit or Ludwigsturm could be possible destinations.
I like your antenna test! I spent some years doing radio propagation tests professionally. Don't underestimate the weather... We experienced small UHF radios working over 700km. We think it was caused by cold dry air from the stratosphere meeting warm humid air from the ground and making a perfect mirror or conduit. And it's normally longer than line of sight - check out the 4/3 rule. So good luck with a really long record. And Happy Birthday!
Andreas Spiess Hi. I was surveying in the UHF band - around 400MHz. We did not think it was the normal temperature inversion as the effect was so extreme. On some days, it affected the microwave line-of-site transmissions which were using diversity antennas separated vertically by about 10m. You could detect the layer passing down through the beams. The 4/3 rule increases line of sight due to the refraction caused by the atmosphere. You used to be able to get curved paper for plotting the hills between two antennae which allowed for this and showed if they would interfere. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-line-of-sight_propagation Short wave has a club "The million miles per watt" club - for very serious long distance propagation using the stratosphere. Propagation is fun and very challenging. Good luck and thanks for your very interesting videos.
Thanks for the link. I uses a few of the described things as a radio operator. But so far, I did not hear that the air inversions also work on 900 MHz. On 144, I was able to reach England from Switzerland, but with 50 W output and a Yagi. Somebody wrote, that he was able to reach Spain from Ireland on 868 MHz with a Sigfox device (25mW). This is more than 1000 km. I am not sure if I should believe it...
Andreas Spiess yes you can believe it. Duct propagation over sea is really huge. Sometimes the vhf bacon of cabo verde can be heard in spain. That's more than 2500 km i think.
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Great work on your birthday. Thanks for the work and sharing the detailed information. Very impressive LoRa distances and interesting experiments with the antennas and spreading factors
Andreas, I am really enjoying your LoRa videos. You do an excellent job of making your teaching entertaining! Congratulations! on both your world record and your birthday! Keep up the good work.
Congratulations on setting a new record, and for your birthday as well. I enjoy your videos very much. I plan on experimenting with LoRa, as soon as the equipment arrives.
Congratulations with the birthday, the world records and the nice Swiss accent. Thank you for explaining everything so clearly and with so much useful details and links, already 120 times!
Great video, also very funny and interesting! This is really content to share not only on internet but also broadcast in tv... Congrats and happy birthday!
I just checked and realized that where I live there are spots with line of sight to Weissenstein too. it's exactly 300km. But didn't use a tool that considers the earth curvature since I couldn't manage to register to the rm-online site.
Ok, now checked with radio mobile. The earth curvature is so massive that it wouldn't even work with no obstacles and me sitting on the highest hill here.. too bad
I think, it will not be easy to top the 200km because of the fact, that you need at least a gateway on a high place and a flat surrounding. It was a coincidence that the two castles where there...
60 years old but still goig on adventures and breaking records! Congratulations and Happy birthday!
:-))
Its 60 years young....
Looks like I have a few years on him. :-)
@@Roy_Tellason Same here, approx 14 to be exact... But at his age My best friend (from Middle School) and I hiked the Bristlecone Pines Trail, California White Mountains, at around 11,000ft to see a 4,000 year old Tree, but those days are now nothing more than a memory, and something to brag about I guess..This was a interesting Trek and he did get out for some beautiful countryside and set a record at the same time.
Excellent video Andreas, great work on the range, and happy birthday!!! I will have to take a look at those mapping examples and test my locations. My units will be working in forest areas, so only needing 1-2km max range. I will let you know when I get my units into the field for testing.
Wow, that was an impressive radio project, antenna tests, good video documentation, and detailed mapping software with the curvature of the earth.
Happy Birthday and Congratulations, Andreas !!!!
Awesome WORK !!!!
Thanks!
Happy birthday, Andreas! And congratulations on the record! I really like and appreciate your videos. Thank you.
You are welcome!
Happy birthday! I have learned so much from your videos - thank you!
You are welcome!
Congratulations on your achievement and of course happy birthday!
Thanks for this nice video. Quite exciting!
:-)
Happy Birthday and Congratulations! Great seeing what LoRa can do, keep the videos coming :)
Thanks for your feedback!
Congratulations!!! Thanks so much for doing this, and sharing your experience!
Thanks!
very happy for you. my heart warmed to hear you say "I got the connection"
:-))
Happy birthday Andreas and congratulations!!!
Thanks!
Happy birthday and congratulations on the record! Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
You are welcome!
Congratulations on the record!
Thanks!
That was awesome Mr.Spiess! You are really a inspiring person! Thank you and congratulations for you anniversary l! Greentings from Brazil
Thank you!
Thank you for all your contributions.
You are welcome!
Happy birthday Andreas! You videos are so enjoyable!
Thanks!
Happy Birthday !!!
Thanks!
Let alone this impressive feat, what a beautiful territory with incredible history. Thanks for sharing this. These castles just got added to my travel list.
Glad you enjoyed it. It is definitively worthwhile on a beautiful day.
Congratulations and Happy Birthday!
:-)
Happy 60th bday!! And congrats for the amazing records!!!
Thank you. This was also possible with your help!
Happy birthday "Guy with swiss accent"! Great content, as always!
Thanks!
First of all happy Birthday :-) and congratulations on such a long distance and the world record! Maybe you should do more field trips, it was very interesting as always. Keep your good work, it's always a pleasure to see a video from you!! Best wishes
Thank you for your nice words!
Congratulations from Chicago!
Happy Birthday!
Thank you! It is now nearly 2 years since then. But the next birthday is around the corner ;-)
This is incredible. Thank you for sharing. You are a real inspiration :)
:-)
Happy Birthday and congratulations!
:-)
Good fun! A converted WIFI Grid antenna will double that range again. Rule of thumb is, 6dB = double the range. Show your experiment to the local Ham Radio club!
Actually, the link budget is so high with this technology that 6 db do not matter a lot (I did not believe it at first). So, the only thing which matters is line of sight. The link budget is good for more than 1000 km (without antenna gain, because this is legally not allowed on this free band).
BTW: I am also a (inactive) Ham.
I think there are more toys on the free bands than on the ham bands now - it is a very interesting time to play with any radio and electronics gear. The 6dB rule always applies - If you can find 6dB, you get double the range.
+Steve Wright In this experiment I had a connection from one place and no connection 100 m away from where I was. The difference between line of sight an no line of sight is easily 50 or more dB. You can simulate this using the link in the description. So, in theory you are of course right. But only, if all other parameters do not change. And this is not the case here because the earth is not flat ;-) And I was at the outmost possible point where the earth did not interfere with the waves.
Amazing result Andreas! Congratulations on your record and your age milestone. You have single handedly steered me towards LoRa and IoT as a next phase in my self education and I am researching daily. Really looking forward to getting some projects moving so thanks again for a very well presented story. Garry
You are welcome. It is a pleasure to hear, that I helped.
Congratulations! Excellent sleuthing on finding the castle. And Happy Birthday!
:-)
Alles Gute nachträglich! Und vielen vielen Dank für deine tollen Videos!
Danke!
Amazing test and results ! we're so thankful to you for this benchmark. 200km! unbelievable! Congrats.!
Thanks!
Sir, you are my favorite TH-camr! Your videos are entertaining, very educational and aspiring! Great sense of humor, great presentation skills and lots of lots of charm! Thank you for sharing with us.
Thank you for your nice words!
Wow Andreas! That's amazing! What a journey too. Congratulations on your world record, and happy birthday!
Thanks for your wishes!
Happy birthday and thank you for the good video. I admire people like you.
Thank you!
happy birthday from Russia. i wish u a good siberian health! and stay always positive. thx for your videos. its always usefull or at least interesting ;) thx friend
Thanks. With a little Wodka, I will for sure stay healthy!
Cheers.. I'll drink to that :P
Thank you for all your amazing contributions. Would you consider doing a side by side comparison of Lora vs Sigfox? Sigfox has my city covered, (San Francisco) and seems to offer a better alternative.
Amazing!! Great work - Thanks for sharing your experiments.
You are welcome!
Well done Andreas! Keep up the good work!
Thanks!
Fun to watch! I still have the time I was walking on hills with radio sets to do range tests in good memory. I recognized the area around wegelnburg because I live near there. Did you think about going a bit more north to extend the record? Kalmit or Ludwigsturm could be possible destinations.
I like your antenna test! I spent some years doing radio propagation tests professionally. Don't underestimate the weather... We experienced small UHF radios working over 700km. We think it was caused by cold dry air from the stratosphere meeting warm humid air from the ground and making a perfect mirror or conduit. And it's normally longer than line of sight - check out the 4/3 rule. So good luck with a really long record. And Happy Birthday!
+Mike Hudson Thanks. I know this from 144MHz. Up to which frequency did you see this?
What is the 4/3 rule?
Andreas Spiess
Hi. I was surveying in the UHF band - around 400MHz. We did not think it was the normal temperature inversion as the effect was so extreme. On some days, it affected the microwave line-of-site transmissions which were using diversity antennas separated vertically by about 10m. You could detect the layer passing down through the beams.
The 4/3 rule increases line of sight due to the refraction caused by the atmosphere. You used to be able to get curved paper for plotting the hills between two antennae which allowed for this and showed if they would interfere.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-line-of-sight_propagation
Short wave has a club "The million miles per watt" club - for very serious long distance propagation using the stratosphere.
Propagation is fun and very challenging. Good luck and thanks for your very interesting videos.
Thanks for the link. I uses a few of the described things as a radio operator. But so far, I did not hear that the air inversions also work on 900 MHz. On 144, I was able to reach England from Switzerland, but with 50 W output and a Yagi. Somebody wrote, that he was able to reach Spain from Ireland on 868 MHz with a Sigfox device (25mW). This is more than 1000 km. I am not sure if I should believe it...
Andreas Spiess yes you can believe it. Duct propagation over sea is really huge. Sometimes the vhf bacon of cabo verde can be heard in spain. That's more than 2500 km i think.
You are a madman! Congrats!
Thank you!
Andreas, Happy Birthday and congratulations for extraordinary achievement!
Thanks!
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awesome video. i am curious about who put the gateway on that tower. you should try and contact him and maybe an interview?
I think, it is the University of Applied Science of Berne
Happy Birthday! - Cheers!
Thank you. This was nearly 7 years ago ;-)
Well done, again! Happy birthday Andreas.
Thanks!
What about a putting a node on a weather balloon? That would be a fun video.
Here, we have lots of restrictions. So, this is definitively a task for our American or Canadian friens with their big open spaces...
We did test it with a small air balloon, reached 160km +
www.meetup.com/sensemakersams/photos/27400617/455892978/
What modules and antennas did you use? I would love to repeat your experiment. Thanks.
Happy birthday Andreas, what a big effort you've made, congratulations on your records!!!
Thanks!
Amazing record and so much effort put in this project!
:-)
WOW!! Thank you for posting this!! This is exciting stuff!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Again, very nice video Andreas, rich of details. Congratulations to your record and keep doing this nice videos!
Thank you for your feedback!
happy birthday Andreas. many happy returns
Thanks!
Happy birthday and congratulations!
:-)
Great work on your birthday. Thanks for the work and sharing the detailed information. Very impressive LoRa distances and interesting experiments with the antennas and spreading factors
Thank you for your feedback!
Excellent - congratulations on the records and thanks for sharing
You are welcome!
Happy birthday Andreas, and congrats in reaching your goals.
Thanks!
Excellent video Andreas, thank you.
You are welcome!
Very interesting, thanks a lot. Wishing you good health and more amusing adventures.
You are welcome! Maybe you watch the videos about my "balloon hunting" adventures...
Comment for help.. Thank you for making these videos, Mr. Spiess :)
Happy Birthday and congratulations on the new world record!
Thanks for your support!
Happy Birhday Andreas. Thank you alot for your videos. I belive many of us enjoy them immensely.
Thanks!
Happy Birthday and congratulations on the 2 records - hope you will entertain us for many years to come.
Thanks!
Congratulations and happy birthday.
Thanks!
Can’t believe I missed this video before now but amazing work and thanks for sharing!!
You are welcome. My 62nd birthday is around the corner, so this video is already quite old ;-)
happy belated birthday Andreas!. Great work! Great professional videos - for those who really want to learn!
Thank you for your nice words!
Well done!! And Happy birthday.
Thanks!
Congrats on 2 world records!!! Such great video and Happy Birthday!!!
Thank you!
Just watched this ; your seriously a great presenter and inspiring, thanks for the work your doing.
Thank you for your kind words!
Fascinating stuff! Andreas, congratulations on your world record :-)
Thank you!
Excellent job done, as always!
I wish you to live long in a good health, with peace in your heart, and inspiration in your mind.
Best regards!
Thank you for your wishes!
Dude, congratulations, both on your Birthday and the long range you achieved! Hopefully you had a nice weekend driving all that way
No problem. It was interesting and I enjoyed it.
Very very insightful! Happy birthday!
:-)
Happy Birthday and congrats! heck of a way to spend your 60th!!!
I agree. It was a lot of fun for me.
Happy Birthday and congrats!!
Thanks!
Very well done Andreas! Congrats with a record on your birthday!! 🎉
+Laurence Munro Thanks! The last record was in your country...
Happy birthday !!!
And congrat for the world record.
Always intersting to watch your channel
Thanks!
Happy birthday wherever you are, I am a big fan of your work. Thank you
Thank you! I am now 66. So this video is already 6 years old ;-)
Sir, you're an inspiration! I'm happy and proud of you! Take care and be safe!
Thank you very much!
Andreas, I am really enjoying your LoRa videos. You do an excellent job of making your teaching entertaining! Congratulations! on both your world record and your birthday! Keep up the good work.
Thank you for your nice words!
Andreas you are the BEST! Cheers from Brazil!
Thanks!
Happy Birthday Andreas, congrats on the distance!
+Adam Dullage Thanks!
Congratulations on setting a new record, and for your birthday as well. I enjoy your videos very much. I plan on experimenting with LoRa, as soon as the equipment arrives.
Thanks! I hope, you are not disappointed. In crowded areas, the reach of course is much smaller...
Happy birthday Andreas and well done on the world record!
Thanks!
This is amazing! Great work 👌🏼👌🏼
:-)
Congratulations with the birthday, the world records and the nice Swiss accent. Thank you for explaining everything so clearly and with so much useful details and links, already 120 times!
Thank you for your nice words!
Amazing video, thank you. Another confirmation that this kind of radio will play e big role in the next future.
And Happy Birthday, obviously :-)
Thanks!
What a great adventure. Thank you for sharing. 🙏🏻
You are welcome!
You are Awesome! Happy birthday!!!
Thanks!
amazing!! congrats and happy birthday
Thanks!
Happy birthday! inspiring video!
Thanks!
Happy birthday and congrats with your worldrecord.
Thanks!
Happy Birthday Andreas !! Again an awesome video!, you're like a real engineer should be, no change necessary! ;-) .. go on for the next 60 years !
Thank you very much for your nice words!
Great video, also very funny and interesting! This is really content to share not only on internet but also broadcast in tv... Congrats and happy birthday!
Thanks! Glad you like it.
Congrats! 🎂
Thank you!
Congratulations and happy Birthday! This is a really remarkable achivement!
Thanks!
I just checked and realized that where I live there are spots with line of sight to Weissenstein too. it's exactly 300km. But didn't use a tool that considers the earth curvature since I couldn't manage to register to the rm-online site.
Ok, now checked with radio mobile. The earth curvature is so massive that it wouldn't even work with no obstacles and me sitting on the highest hill here.. too bad
I think, it will not be easy to top the 200km because of the fact, that you need at least a gateway on a high place and a flat surrounding. It was a coincidence that the two castles where there...
Happy Birthday and this is an Incredible achievement.
Thanks!
Congratulations Andreas!
Thanks!
Very cool and great work! Its a technical and practical expression of skill and determination that I admire immensely.
Thank you for your kind words!
Happy birthday from Brazil!
Thanks!
Great video, loved the scenery, and what an experiment
Glad you enjoyed it
I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this video. Radio world is amazing thank you for all the effort and gas ;)
You are welcome! You should find quite some "radio" on this channel.
thanks for all your videos and wish u the best all the time
Thank you!
Happy birthday and congratulations
Thank you! Meanwhile I am nearly 64 ;-)