2 Mar
2020
2 Mar
'20
7:23 p.m.
On Mar 2, 2020, at 1:10 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire
at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 3/2/20 1:06 PM, Thomas DeBellis wrote:
The complication: if you operate this as a ham radio link, you're fine with high power
or gain antennas, but you have to make it ID, and you have to worry about the traffic
carried. On the other hand, if it's a Part 15 device (the usual mode) then the gain
antenna might not be legal. (I don't actually know the rules, but I would think that
EIRP limits are part of it, and/or type acceptance certificate rules that say you
can't modify the design.)
paul
Line of sight reminds me of another crazy idea I
once heard about.
On one side of a valley in a highly wooded rural area, a technical
writer was highly desirous of broadband, yet none was to be had. Whaay
away, on another side, broadband was available. So what he did was find
somebody over there who could get broadband and offered to pay the
service. Then he got a pair of access points (AP's) and set them up as
'repeaters'. This is the cool part: he connected the AP's to some
pretty awesome yagi's.
Bingo. Broadband. I thought this was a pretty fine hack, but I forget
where I read it.
I did something very similar about ten years ago. I was stuck in
rural West Virginia for several months dealing with a family estate. It
was a huge house on a gigantic piece of land, and was awesome in just
about every way, except unbelievably isolated. No network access of any
kind available there, except Hughes satellite, which is unusable for
really much of anything.
I put DDWRT on a WRT-54G, paired it with a small Yagi, and scanned
around. I ended up pointing it at the lights on a distant mountaintop
on the other side of the valley, and, as you said, bingo. We ran with
that for about nine months. I still have no idea of whose connectivity
that was.
-Dave