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Google is building a 100kW radio transmitter at a spaceport and no one knows why (hackaday.com)
10 points by wanderingjew on March 2, 2016 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



ERP is the effective power in the mainlobe, so an omni antenna and a highly direction one with the same ERP will sound as loud to their intended listener. Those frequencies are used for terrestrial microwave backhauls. They're almost certainly working on a system to connect disparate fiber networks via microwave. Higher power means lower bit error rate after all.


This is a typo or copy paste error. Based on the 52dbw EIRP it is a standard FCC compliant 80 GHz FDD radio system (same family as bridgewave, e-band, siklu, SIAE).

Actual electrical power consumed at the wall is probably <40W.



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