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		asdefghyk 43 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Starlink Mini as a failover It gets signal attenuation from heavy rain. Rain attenuation of certain RF is a well known phenomena.

functional_dev 43 days ago [–]

right, attenuation is particularly bad with Starlink because it operates in the Ku and Ka bands... wavelengths are small enough to be scattered by individual raindrops

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