[BC] Sat Internet Service

[RichardBJohnson at comcast.net]

Watch out for rain or snow. The reason these frequencies are used for microwave ovens is that they really like water, dive in, and lose all their energy as heat! I put up a link that crosses Lake Winnipesaukee in New Hampshire (about 1-1/2 mile) for a friend who has a home plus a cabin on the other side. This was so that his home Internet could be used at his cabin. It worked GREAT! --er unless it was raining. Basically, if you couldn't see the opposite shore because of rain, the WiFi link couldn't see it either. I experimented with "Cantennas," disc-arrays, and pure Yagi antennas. Still, if you couldn't see the opposite shore it wouldn't work. 

Cheers,
Richard B. Johnson
Book: http://www.AbominableFirebug.com/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Spencer" <Radiofreetom at gmail.com>

If you can get within a few miles of the site, you can roll your own 
wireless, either on 2.4 or 5.8 GHz