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Goodness gracious. What was the range of your network? Trying that on a consumer AP would instantly lose the signal, I'd imagine
by gcr 10y ago
Goodness gracious. What was the range of your network? Trying that on a consumer AP would instantly lose the signal, I'd imagine
- JoshTriplett 10y agoMiles, easily. But we had three major advantages: 1) We had a shoulder-mounted directional antenna pointed at the rocket. 2) The rocket had a cylindrical patch antenna wrapped around it. 3) Wifi channel 1 is in an amateur radio band, which means we can amplify it beyond the normal limits. We ran it at 1W.
- joecool1029 10y agoEh, I run 1W EIRP on consumer equipment and it's legal[1]. Assuming you are in US? Or not? [1]: https://www.air802.com/fcc-rules-and-regulations.html https://www.air802.com/fcc-rules-and-regulations.html
- JoshTriplett 10y agoUS, but TTBOMK it wouldn't have been with the combination of amp and antenna. At the time, we'd looked it up and the legal limit without an amateur license was somewhere in the hundreds-of-milliwatts range.
- lend000 10y agoNormal Wifi is extremely low power by regulation -- the medium itself is capable of much more, and I assume this project used different antennas than you find in your router.