On Sat, 13 May 2000, Terry Collins wrote:
> Notice, I leave out the word
> successfully as I don't think the CLUG people live on this stuff.
A guy at Sydney Uni has the original WaveLAN cards pointed from his place
in Surry Hills to the Uni and has done for a few years. Successfully.
Many of the CLUG people have active links.
> We are essentially talking about a very low power thing here ( a bit
> like expecting that fitting a 1/4 horsepower (max legal without rego
> and licence) motor to a bicycle will give you even Niki/Fiat
> performance)
4 Watts maximum ERP. Quite a bit of power, really. And power is mostly
irrelevant in the microwave range as no amount of power is going to get
you over a hill or through a building :)
> On the otherhand, I keep hearing of a story that you can establish a
> decent powered microwave link without paperwork, etc, but I can never
> get the full story and I'm fairly certain it is a urban myth.
Class license for the WaveLAN range in spread spectrum. No paperwork.
See Dept of Communications and look for class licenses.
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