The article says 1 watt. Also if you look at the pictures, you'll see a poletop amp and DC injector.
-- Jeff King, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 11/13/2002 On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 19:11:09 -0600, Jim Thompson wrote: > >FCC ptp rules in 2.4 say you're allowed up to 30dBm tx power with >6dBi >of antenna gain, >and must reduce tx power by 1 dBm for every 3 dBi of antenna gain >over >6. > >Assume that the dish pictured is 30dBi (difficult, but not >impossible): >30 - (30-6)/3 = 22 dBm of tx power allowed. > >The Lucent/Orinoco/Agere cards used put up 18dBm, so I'd say they're > >running inside the rules. > >They must be running KarlNet/Turbo Cell on that link. Otherwise, >the >SIFS/ACK timing wouldn't work. If they >are, then its not 802.11 (much less 802.11b!) While HPWREN never >claims it as an 802.11(b) link, lots of other >places (/., the original poster here) do. > >Jim >p.s. note that you can run up to 23dBm (200mW) of tx power with a >27dBi >antenna (again, ptp rules). > >On Wednesday, Nov 13, 2002, at 15:50 US/Central, Daniel Kluge wrote: > >>I just stumbled over an article, that Hans-Werner Braun at HPWREN >>upped >>the ante a little bit for point-to-point links. They are doing 72 >>miles >>over water using 40 inch grid antennas and apparently standard Wi- >>Fi >>cards >> >>You can read it in HPWREN's press-release here: >>http://hpwren.ucsd.edu/news/021101.html >> >>Or the following article (which has some errors in it): >>http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=77&ncid=77&e=2&u=/m >>c/ >>20021113/tc_mc/san_diego_wireless_net_installs_72_mile_2_4_ghz_link >> >>Cheers, >>-daniel >>-- >>UNIX-looney for hire >>-- >>general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> >>[un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless >> > >-- >general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> >[un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
