[BARC-List] HSMM and Getting On 2.4Ghz - 802.11b//P 97 Cheap and Easy

[Brooks90@aol.com]

There was a good article ref. how to get a cheap card, PC interface and 
wiring a coax to the RF output on the card, etc, with basic background on the 
FCC regs vs. ham use on 2.4 GHz.  Article was in Jan, feb or March CQ.  I 
don't have those copies here so if somebody has the month and page # and 
could post it here, could be of use.   73,  D. Brooks 

> In response to my HSMM question yesterday, several people on the list have
> asked "What's 'HSMM'?"  Sorry, acronyms strike again.
>
> I'm no expert, so view this strictly as a layman's summary, but HSMM stands 
for
> high-speed multi-media, in effect using radio to create Internet-like
> capabilities on the air (the ARRL has dubbed the term "Hinternet" for this,
> which is a little too gimicky for my taste, but it gets the point across, I
> suppose).  Anyhow, the idea is to develop ways to use wireless digital
> technology to develop high speed digital radio applications.  By high 
speed,
> we're talking about something along the lines of 9,000 times faster than
> regular old 1,200 packet we see on 2 meters.  This is a project being 
supported
> by the ARRL, and is envisioned as offering the ability to deploy digital 
video
> streaming, full duplex audio and other applications that could be very
> effective for emergency communications (even in the face of landline 
Internet
> disruptions), not to mention plain old fun.
>
> Existing Wi-Fi devices using 802.11b (and, if I have this right, the
> experimental 802.11g) under part 15 of the FCC rules overlap with amateur
> frequencies on 2.4 GHz.  What that means in plain English is that you or I
> could buy a wireless access device for fairly short $, set it up with an
> external antenna (with encryption disabled, of course, to comply with Part 
97
> rules) and do some happy hamming that would make packet look downright 
sleepy.   Snip



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