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I think Othernet is really cool. Don't even need a big dish. In 2kbps, they fit in RSS news feeds (BBC, Al Jazeera, Boing Boing, and others), APRS messages, WikiNews, global winds report, a daily Voice of America news report.

Currently only works in Europe and North America, but nice to know there's a middle-of-no-where service that doesn't require a sub that gives you some barebones info from the outside world.

There's a post a couple posts below on their forum with someone that put their system on the internet so you can see what it pulls in: https://forums.othernet.is/t/what-happened/7647/2




Wow, thanks for the compliment. Let me know if you have any ideas on how to make it useful to a wider audience.


Upping awareness. Last Youtube video by Tech Minds was 3 years ago. Maybe not a lot has changed, but youtube punishes old content :(

Maybe a Starlink status feed. I can imagine some Starlink customers not having any back-up link to the world in some places.

Text weather forecasts.

CBC news feed if it can fit: https://www.cbc.ca/lite/news?sort=editors-picks

Maybe just include in the North American feed.


> I think Othernet is really cool.

Yup! I'm looking forward to them having equipment available again (so I don't need to homebrew).

> Don't even need a big dish.

With a decent LNB, you don't need a dish at -all-.


It's available now.


!! So it is! You have my order.

Just FYI, somehow I'd been ending up on this page: https://othernet.is/products/dreamcatcher-circuit-board

And believing it when it said it was not available yet.




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