But if you use shortwave, then you can bounce the information off the ionosphere. This works a good deal better when the sun is not in the sky, sluicing the atmosphere with wideband noise. So radio telegraphers, and the people who eavesdrop on them {what the Brits call the Y Service} are, alike, nocturnal beings.
( Neal Stephenson )
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