MeshCore
869.618 MHz
LoRa radio
Message received
Kilometres
Frequency
Time
40
101
76
76 =1001100
SF7
SF8
SF9
SF10
SF11
SF12
Up-chirps
2¼ falling
Data chirps
× falling chirp
01 · LoRa
02 · Chirp
03 · Plot
04 · Data
05 · Spreading factor
06 · Packet
07 · Receiver
08 · Noise

small messages for kilometres,

no internet or phone network

Not a beep. A chirp:

a diagonal line,

MeshCore's usual setting.

Where each chirp starts

jumps back to the bottom,

back to where it began.

seven bits per chirp.

each step up doubles it.

easier to pick out of noise.

a row of stripes:

why it reaches so far.

multiplies by a falling chirp,

a single tone:

one sharp spike.

a hundred times stronger

Channel width · example
62.5kHz
Start positions · SF7
128
Chirp length · SF7
1×
Chirp heard
100%
Noise vs signal · SF12
100×

What a LoRa radio wave looks like

A narrated 90-second explainer. Watch it as a film, look around inside it, or stand in it with a VR headset. After the film, the world keeps going.

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