[40669] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: wanted: wireless magic tricks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Maxwell)
Thu Aug 16 12:58:39 2001
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 12:53:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: Greg Maxwell <gmaxwell@martin.fl.us>
To: Dennis Dayman <dennis@thenose.net>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Dennis Dayman wrote:
> In this 20 miles does he have Line of Sight (LOS)? A wireless protocol,
> Mag Grid antenna, and an .5-1.0 WATT amplifier could do the trick. But
> he needs to watch his DB levels so if he does use the 1.0 WATT AMP he
> doesn't go over the un-licensed FCC spectrum.
You're not going to do a high bandwidth link 20 miles in ISM with a
permitted EIRP (I think 4watts).
That doesn't seem to stop a lot of people from putting a 20+db gain
antenna on a 1watt input for this stuff, but 50 watts EIRP isn't anywhere
near legal.