Comment by m4rtink
10 hours ago
Starlink is totally oit of picobaloon range by orders of magnitude - we are talking hundreds of mW at most.
At the same time it is true the board (rpi pico usually) could totally support a camera or other high bandwidth instruments - it just does not have the bandwidth to send the data over wspr, possibly with the exception of some flags based on local processing.
AFAIK some poeple have built dual APRS & WSPR pico baloons, but you will still get pictures back only over populated areas due to APRS having in general much shorter range than WSPR.
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