[olug] various radio projects

Fri Feb 27 22:21:23 UTC 2004

Hi there I'm Charles Bird and I saw your post on OLUG. I 
just moved to town from Clinton, IA. I am looking for a 
job so that I can get lots of Certs, HAM being one of 
them. 
I am very interested in Microwave Data. I own a small 
airplane which seats one person, I have always wanted to 
experiment with a Laptop with some kind of small microwave 
ant., the aiming at a base station would be tough but I 
thought that a lower freq. emitter on both aircraft and 
Base station would enable something like an "auto-Yaggi" 
to point both ant. to each other. It would be some 
robotics involved which I dont know much about.  
The purpose of this would be to send realtime NOAA weather 
Maps to a pilot while within 100 Mi from the Base 
Satation, which if the base station was right on top of a 
grain elevater with a 360 degree swing then one could get 
a signal(in theory) from 100 Mi or more at 10,000ft agl. 
I mean, when I lived in ame, IA I took a plane to 14,500ft 
to see what it looked like at night..It was so cool, i 
could see Omaha, and quad citys, cedar Rapids from above 
the ames airport.  
Another thing I was thinking was the same 360 degree dome 
with microwave to spin very fast and send packets...kinda 
like a hub/switch because mulitple computers could have 
ant. pointing at the dome. The dome could have a 
"resolver" which is a motoer like thing that detect 
position of whatever is connected to it, one could assing 
an ip to what ever position it is at.  
   Thanks for letting me rant a bit, If you want to 
experiment with Line of Site computer stuff with my plane 
then let me know, I could pitch in on some equipment, keep 
it light, and I'll be ready in April or May. 

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Brandon Lederer <brandon at tolkien-movies.com> 
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 11:31:21 -0600 
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org> 
Subject: Re: [olug] various radio projects 

> A friend of mine has tower space in Omaha.  Pretty 
precious i suppose.  Im not  
> a ham, but he is.  he's always into new stuff.  He does 
all sorts of cool  
> stuff. 
>  
>  
>  
> On Friday 27 February 2004 07:57 am, Ryan Stille wrote: 
> > > neal rauhauser [mailto:neal at lists.rauhauser.net] 
wrote: 
> > > 
> > >   After nearly a year off doing anything at all 
wireless 
> > > except for private 
> > > line bypass stuff I've again got the itch to 
experiment. 
> > > 
> > >   I've acquired a number of Lucent WaveLan 915 Mhz 
200mw 
> > > radio cards and some 
> > > amplifiers. 
> > > 
> > >   I've acquired a couple of Soekris 4521 single 
board 
> > > computers and I have a 
> > > bit of 802.11b stuff laying around the office. 
> > > 
> > >   I added a Sierra 550 PCS data card to the 
collection - ISDN 
> > > speed internet 
> > > most anywhere in the metro, working now to integrate 
it into 
> > > OBSD which is what 
> > > I'm running on the Soekris machines. 
> > > 
> > >   I'm slowly collecting microwave test & design 
equipment. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   I'm looking for a venue for testing some of the 
stuff I'm 
> > > doing now - I'd 
> > > like to find a flat roofed building on high ground, 
grain 
> > > elevator, etc - 
> > > something with walk in or easy ladder access and 
power at the 
> > > top. I'd be 
> > > willing to help someone put in a system if it came 
with easy 
> > > access to space 
> > > for other experiments.  This doesn't have to be in 
metro 
> > > Omaha, in fact it'd be 
> > > better if it were a ways out of town. 
> > > 
> > >   I'm interested in finding other people with 
amateur radio 
> > > licenses who are 
> > > interested in doing some part 97 work with 
902-928MHz & 
> > > 2402-2483MHz equipment. 
> > > If you're interested in amateur radio with a data 
oriented 
> > > spin I wouldn't mind 
> > > helping you get started. 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >   I've written a bit about what I'm doing right now 
- 
> > > http://www.rauhauser.net 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > So, this is more than a little vague, but I'm sure 
at least one person on 
> > > here is going to have some sort of a response to 
this ... 
> > 
> > I have a ham license, and have been interested in this 
in the past, but 
> > haven't really had the time or money to pursue any of 
it. 
> > 
> > So I can't really add anything or help (partly because 
I am in Sioux City), 
> > but I thought I would let you know there is another 
ham out here who is 
> > interested in this stuff. 
> > 
> > What I would like to do here in Sioux City eventually 
is have some kind of 
> > grass roots city-wide LAN, very similar to what was 
just mentioned in 
> > another thread on this list for the Omaha area.  But 
this would be built on 
> > 802.11x stuff, no ham gear.  However I've thought 
about trying to get the 
> > hams involved, maybe with help with antennas and/or 
tower space. 
> > 
> > 73, 
> > -Ryan 
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