Re[2]: [Icom] Rumor Mill pictures

[John Blue]

DH> I read about 3-4 months ago in QST (or another magazine)  that icom was
DH> bring out a 1.2 GHZ radio that could be used to connect computers over long
DH> distances. This would be great for me as I live in the in rural Alberta and
DH> have only a poor 28k phone line ( when it works). but in my small town were
DH> I work I have acces to a very good T3 line . I have looked on the icom
DH> website but have seen nothing. Is this true? I am interested in any radio
DH> that will move serious data rate , not the flea power stuff.
DH> thanks don henry ve6vac

As the freq would indicate .. your going to need LOS.  And to stay
inside of power output restrictions of this unlicensed xmission, youll
also need a very directional antenna.  yagis and dish mods work the
best.

You'll take a hit on bandwidth running encryption et al since there is
so much overhead in the conversation.  Plan on max 1Mb throughput ..
but some very enterprising rigs have been able to sustain 35Km links,
and thats pretty cool.

http://www.d128.com/wireless/

John Blue


btw - Don, if your lurking the r7000 whine automagically goes away
after time.  I finally got fed up with trying to xformer parts (there
are none) and assumed a "damn the torpedo's" posture and left on 24/7
for about a week decoding a trunked control channel.

ah well.