This is really awesome technology. I have recently thought of connecting the boats thru a “mesh” network of wifi routers. It would be awesome if we could use tech for communication between fishing boats and leave satellite phones in the dust.
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U.S. Navy engineers at Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific in San Diego, Calif., have developed a system to use a stream of seawater as a radio antenna. Seawater is pumped through a magnetic probe to receive and transmit communication signals. The frequency and the bandwidth of the signal can be altered by adjusting the height and diameter of the stream.
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