My friend lives about 10 miles East of Ft Stockton, about a mile North of
I10 ... Off grid, and would like internet. :) ... he charges batteries from
solar panels.
... Jack
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart... Colossians 3:23
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the
Since this is all pretty basic stuff... but, maybe nobody mentioned it to
him.
About ten mile east of Fort Stockton, highway 67 splits and proceeds north.
I am guessing that is the area. If so, this is far simpler than any uplink.
Make a deal with a friendly internet subscriber not so far away,
Ubiquiti
On Apr 6, 2013 2:01 PM, Bill Woody woody39...@gmail.com wrote:
Since this is all pretty basic stuff... but, maybe nobody mentioned it to
him.
About ten mile east of Fort Stockton, highway 67 splits and proceeds
north. I am guessing that is the area. If so, this is far simpler than
Curt Lundgren verif...@gmail.com wrote:
We use Ubiquiti UniFi access points at Watkins and we're quite happy
with
them. Ubiquiti has a couple of ranges of point-to-point access points
and
antennas. In general, the radios are power over Ethernet (they do
insist
you use their shielded
If cost is a big issue, discarded satellite TV dishes can be modified into
service. Wile I am speaking of the little Dish TV things, sometimes I dream
about using the old six foot and larger dishes with a modified horn to use
2.4 gig. wait. This would be illegal... just like all my really good
What part of West Texas? If I can google map it, I may be able to help with
something Earth based if clunky. I have had some thoughts and practice with
long distance communications on the cheap.
Your original question is a backburner project of mine to look at one day.
If anything comes of it
I have a friend in West TX that wants to do a DIY satellite
transmitter/reciever.
Has anyone heard of a project to do such a thing?
One time I think I heard of a Ham satellite that would do a store and
forward, but that is probably not in service anymore.
Just curious.
BTW, it looks like we
Hello Jack,
It might be possible to find COTS hardware. Building it
is likely not the problem, it is getting it past FCC requirements that
would take a bit of test equipment, effort and expense. There is
probably a licensing issue or three and RF exposure stuff to be aware of
to muddy up that
