Re: [TenTec] Amateur radio for home security?

[Cliff <csegar@mindspring.com>]

At 03:49 PM 3/23/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>I have a cabin about a half mile from my home.  The cabin is abt. 1000 feet
>from the road with no automobile access.  I would like to build a security
>system which would alert me to problems of various sorts.  Would it be
>within the scope of amateur radio to use automated 2 Meter or 440 Mhz for
>this purpose?  At 900 Mhz a LAN bridge would work and be legal but it would
>be expensive.  Would packet be a way to do this?  Anyone have some wisdom
>for me?

I wonder if this might be an actual good use (other than Wx) for APRS?

de KD4GT