This Digital Radio Gets Messages to the World’s Remotest Locations

Shortwave radios offer a way to connect one location on Earth to practically anywhere else with minimal infrastructure. But these radios come with some drawbacks—a significant one being that, unlike satellite communications , their transmission rates for digital data are typically measured in just hundreds of bits per second .

Peter Bloom Peter Bloom is the founder of Rhizomatica, a nonprofit that works with remote, indigenous, and off-grid communities around the world to build shortwave and cellular-communication infrastructure.