Re:Windup radio (Score 1)

You've hit upon the two main means for content distribution that we've thought of. A hub-and-spoke model for distributing data from a VSAT terminal works as long as the intervening terrain is reasonably flat (and it can give a 2-way link to the 'net)

The terrestrial radio option is a good one. We've considered using subcarriers on existing shortwave or FM broadcast systems to provide a continuous stream of (for example) news and weather information. But the backchannel to the 'net is the big problem...

-- Matt Reynolds (Pengachu hardware engineer)