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I seem to be having troubles with ranges longer than short when using this mod. I've established a primary relay network of 5 satellites in keosynchronous orbit that can all reach mission control and talk to each other and they can talk to space craft I have in place on the Mun. I have a similar network around the Mun that uses omni's to talk to each other and any craft on or near the Mun. The primary relay network, as I said has 5 satellites, each has four 50 Gm positionable dishes, an omni antenna and one 900 Gm dish. I'm now trying to establish another ring of communication satellites outside of the range of the omni antenna (80,000 KM orbit around kerbin) but I'm having all sorts of problems getting them to talk to anything. My delivery ship can talk to my keosynch satellites with no problem but the new ring of communication satellites can't talk to the inner ring. Each of the outer ring sats are each pointed to a pair of inner ring satellites that are on the opposite side of kerbin from each other - that way the outer ring can always reach at least one inner ring. The two inner ring point to the two outer ring satellites that point to them. I've triple checked this. The outer ring satellites are all pointing to the satellite behind and in front of them in the orbit to form a ring between them. The only time I can get in radio contact with them is when the delivery ship (unmanned as well) gets within omni range of these satellites. I'm clueless and I've been scouring the web for hours without much of an answer. I've searched here and on Google without any useful results. What am I doing wrong?

Now THAT is a map! I'm extremely looking forward to that update!

I searched a bit for this but is there any math to launching geostationary probes that are in specific intervals of each other? I'd like 4 comsats that are roughly equal distance from each other orbiting on a geosynchronous orbit over the equator of a body. Is there is any math behind this or is it just easy enough to eyeball?

Absolutely. I'm just pointing out another way to get things into orbit that work that may or may not be realistic, just like other mentions in this thread such as stack separators.

Although definitely not nearly as unconventional as the methods you have all described, I have been toying with the use of ramjets for lower stages of medium and small launch vehicles to get started. They barely use fuel compared to other lower stage alternatives and offer a significant TWR. The trick is to let them spin up and build up thrust before releasing launch clamps. I am typically able to get most of my launch vehicles to about 25 KM before engaging my liquid or solid motors. http://rapidunplanneddisassembly.blogspot.com/2013/05/ramjets-for-launch.html