Microwave Radio
#A Microwave Radio links two or more sites over microwave dishes. It carries:
- APRS between H19 terminals (the far one sends it on again)
- direction finder bearings
- telephone calls
Stations join it by touching it or by data wire; so do the site's other microwave radios. Dishes go on its coax.
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- G Solar Panel
- Q Charge Controller
- V Large Battery
- r Wire
- 0 Microwave Radio
- a Coaxial Wire
- D Microwave Dish
- d Data Wire
- T Telephone
- l Wire
- R Wire
- w Wire
- j Wire
- P Phone PABX
Solar power runs the radio; coax takes it to the dish, and a Phone PABX touching it serves a telephone on its data wire, fed by a branch of the power wire. Build the far site the same way, its dish turned back towards this one.
Above, the build in 3D; below the 3D view, a top-down view of each layer. In game, press Visualize on this page of the handbook to see it as ghost blocks.
Setting up
It runs on power (26 FE/t while on). Press POWER, then SETUP: [C] a call sign, [I] a four digit ID, [F] a frequency from 5925 to 7125 MHz in 10 MHz steps. Each call sign and ID pair can only be used once.
Both ends of a link must be on the same frequency.
Linking
One end is the master: on STATUS press [B] to broadcast. The others are subscribers: press [S] to search, and [Y] to confirm the master it finds. A master can have many subscribers, and they reach each other through it.
A confirmed subscriber finds its master again on its own after a restart. Both ends must be loaded.
Microwave Radio
A
BA
C
DC
EEE- A Gold Ingot
- B Encased Pure 144 MHz (VHF) Crystal
- C Coaxial Wire
- D Ender Pearl
- E Iron Ingot
Microwave DishAAAA
BA
CA- A Iron Ingot
- B Copper Ingot
- C Wire