[FADCA] Take a look at this...

Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:29:19 -0400

A few months ago I did some poking around on this. There has been some
significant ham effort using modified Wireless LAN radios...Here's one
interesting source:
http://www.qsl.net/n9zia/wireless/

Here is also an interesting thread on some ham work:
http://www.ir3ip.net/pipermail/linux-hams/2002-May/002543.html

Basically:

Some Wireless LAN radios can be easily modified (simple firmware change) to
only frequency hop in the 2.4 GHz ham band.

In the Ham band a amp is acceptable and I think Down East Microwave has them
up to 10-15 watts.  That with a 20+ db Dish gives some respectable ERP and I
seem to recall easy links over 20 mi. There are auto EIRP requirements in
place once you get over certain EIRP levels.

There are a lot of very cheap 2.4 GHz 20 dB dishes avail from both new and
surplus sources.

When you think about the time and effort involved with setting up a 9k6
packet backbone it may be worth biting the bullet and thinking about a
"pipe" that is 1000 times fatter!

I would be very interested in pursuing this and contributing in any way I
could.

Rick Muething KN6KB
Winlink Development Team

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 10:51 AM
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Subject: RE: [FADCA] Take a look at this...

Lots of stories out there on the web. A bunch of people have been doing it
for some time.
Rich

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When non-hams do this you have to feel SOME shame...
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/wireless/2001/05/03/longshot.html

I know that there are other even more agressive activities like
this being done by the Part 15 bunch. At 20 miles these are the
distances between many switch sites, we sure need to start looking
at this for our high speed paths.

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