[BARC-List] eham article on 802.11b and amateur networks

[sysworks@sys-works.com]

I'm happy to discover that someone is running 802.11B over ham radio 
frequencies.  IMHO, this technology has the potential to rescue ham radio 
from irrelevance in today's world of instant communication.

What if ham radio could provide a wireless internet that could provide 
computer to computer, voice and video data transmissions during times of 
emergency?  What if a FEMA official could connect his personal laptop to a 
ham radio WAP, which linked him to other emergency personnel as easily as 
connecting to his cable modem?  It's more than likely that a serious 
disaster will shut down the real internet.  Wouldn't it be great if hams 
could provide a high performance alternative at no cost to the 
government?  Just think of the possibilities!  How could anyone justify 
taking away microwave spectrum space from us if hams provided the only 
backup to data communication?

I believe that we need to lay out a framework to design such a network 
topology, and need to implement this technology as soon as practically 
possible.  We can't let this opportunity get away.


At 08:04 AM 3/27/2003 -0500, Jason Pramas wrote:
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>http://www.eham.net/articles/4924
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