Your amateur radio license allows you to use "out of band" wireless
networking.. You can move out of the standard channels for wireless
networking and use some power and do a lot with IP over RF.
http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/modify.html
i.e. If a neighbor 10 miles away has DSL, there's nothing that can stop
you from installing a 2.4GHz backhaul from his place to yours. (if you
have line of sight)
On 8/27/2010 3:40 PM, hanslg@aol.com wrote:
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> How easy would it be to arrange an I-connection on UHF? We did relatively
> good linking all our digipeaters together and go one step further should be
> possible especially with all the towers we have up. Remember now, some (if
> not most) of us have the tower strictly due to the PRB1 and that is only
> supporting FCC97 use. I have that restriction and knowing my neighbors, they
> will report any deviation they can imagine. I can't even put up a TV antenna
> without them complaining.
>
> By the way; isn't there something about "reuse of towers" law somewhere,
> meaning that if a cellphone provider what to share my tower the zoning board
> can do nothing about it?
>
> Hans - N2JFS
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Coldwell <coldwell@gmail.com>
> To: hanslg@aol.com
> Cc: towertalk@contesting.com
> Sent: Fri, Aug 27, 2010 3:07 pm
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Fwd: OT: Satellite Internet
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 2:15 PM, Charles Coldwell <coldwell@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Aug 27, 2010 at 1:56 PM, <hanslg@aol.com> wrote:
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>>> I believe they use something around 2.4 GHz, near the "water line". Please
>
> correct me if I'm wrong.
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>> 2.4 GHz is in the ISM band. The water line is at 22.2 GHz.
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>
> Actually, I should have known to look in Wikipedia. Quoting their "K
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> band" article:
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> "The IEEE K band is a portion of the electromagnetic spectrum in the
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> microwave range of frequencies ranging between 18 and 27 GHz. K band
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> between 18 and 26.5 GHz is absorbed easily by water vapor (H2O
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> resonance peak at 22.24 GHz, 1.35 cm)."
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>
> So quoting N2RJ upthread
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> "Wildblue internet transmits 29.5 to 30 GHz, receives 19.7 to 20.2 GHz"
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> It seems like their receive frequencies (is that the satellite
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> receiving or the ground station?) are nicely in the middle of a pretty
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> broad water vapor resonance.
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> I think I would stick to terrestrial stuff at 850/1900 MHz, or maybe
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> digital modes on the HF bands.
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