TROPPO LoRa: TROPospheric Personal Observatory using LoRa signals

Abstract

With the growth of LoRa deployments there are plenty of anecdotal reports of very long wireless links, well beyond the line of sight. Most reports suggest that these links are related to anomalous tropo-spheric propagation. We developed a platform to study tropospheric links based on TheThingsNetwork, a popular LoRaWAN-based infrastructure. We present some preliminary results and call for the IoT community to participate in this radio propagation experiment.