[BC] The first 'white space' project

[Dana Puopolo]

I did some more reserach-this particular one runs on UHF. 100 milliwatts into
a decent gain antenna (like a Paraflector or Mark dish for example) can easily
go 30 miles line of sight at 600 mHz. I used to regularly talk into a 450 ham
repeater about 25 miles away with my Alinco 60 milliwatt portable with a
rubber dick antenna.

Can this be used for last mile? Probably. My ex wife's parents lived about 4
miles out of town in central KS. I'm sure that 100 miliwatts into a vertically
polarized omni 5 db gain antenna on top of the 100 foot grain elevator at one
end and a ten element yagi at the other end on the roof would give them a
cranking UHF signal at their house.  After all, you are line of sight to the
elevator. Six megs of bandwidth can send about 20 mbps of data out, so this
could easily serve 50 to 100 homes (cable serves an average of 300-500 homes
per 34 mbps segment) with broadband.

This certainly would beat dial up hands down.

Even low and high band VHF might work-IF they ran vertical (cross polarized
from any TV stations).

-D

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