[TriLUG] Wireless access

[Ralph Blach]

Jon,

your yaggi might be able to get the Job done, but it would most assuredly violate the
FCC rules.  Remeber, that these radio's operate in the 2.4 ghz ham band and are Secondary
users.  That means that you will have to put up with Ham activities causing interference.

If you get a Ham Liscense, you can run High power, up to a 100 watts it think, but the
would have to be strictly non commercial.  check the latest issues of QST and check with
the ARRL (www.arrl.org).

I would contact them anyway and ask for their expert because they really know this stuff
and could direct you to a Amateur Radio OP who could assist you.  Since you live in Durham
you Might want to check with Rars and the DFMA.

73's de Chip
KF4WBK

Jon Carnes wrote:
> But certainly enough to afford a Yagi setup pointing to a host five
> miles away that *can* get dsl from Speakeasy.net.
> 
> On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 22:45, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> 
>>But remember he still needs to have a connection for the Internet uplink.  
>>With Speakeasy DSL out of the question, due to distance from the CO, what 
>>other options would there be?   Five neighbors is still way too few to 
>>cover the cost of a T1.
>>
>>--Jeremy
>>
>>On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Brad Oaks wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I forwarded the initial message in this thread to a Bahamian friend, and 
>>>he suggested folks might look into this neighborhood wireless solution 
>>>by motorola:
>>>
>>>www.motorola.com/canopy
>>>
>>>range is either up to 2 miles or up to 10 miles depending on setup.
>>>
>>>--bradoaks
>>>
>>>Jon Carnes wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>You might want to ask around at the neighbors and see what the interest
>>>>level is.  It wouldn't take more than about 5 close-by folks to make it
>>>>worth the cost of setting up your own Community Access Point.
>>>>
>>>>And if there was a nearby school, you might be able to get them involved
>>>>as well.
>>>>
>>>>Jon Carnes
>>>>
>>>>On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 14:27, Ron Joffe wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Monday 22 September 2003 12:14 pm, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>>>>>   
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>on.  Maybe with that high location, you could become an access point for
>>>>>>one... :-)
>>>>>>     
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>Jeremy,
>>>>>
>>>>>We had actually looked at that last year, but because of the location, the T1 
>>>>>charges were a bit high. Add to that the relatively sparse population up 
>>>>>there, and it was hard to justify.
>>>>>
>>>>>Ron
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>   
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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