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Good point. With that, with Starlink and soon Starlink direct to cell, this capability is becoming much less important in an emergency. Starlink already provides Internet and soon everyone will have satellite capable phone (I assume texting will be prioritized in emergency for bandwidth).

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When war started with real capacity nation which did test these, do you think they will just blow up several in that orbital space so we have no low orbit devices if that disadvantage them. I would. Would you.

Let us have some so far neutral zone. Wi-Fi etc does not need those. I am not a radio guy. But let them have it.

They will also end up blocking their own satellites if they try to blow up more than a few "enemy" satellites: accelerated Kessler sendrome in play.

And then it all goes down when Elon has a hissy fit.

Amateur radio is by its nature more decentralized. Even if you're using a higher frwquency and dependent on repeaters, they tend to be ran by individuals and independent groups, so you can probably find some way to get your signal through.

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