Hi Nigel, Thank for very nicely taking the time to get me up to speed on HamWAN's back story. I just emailed 2 wireless vendors, asking if they'd like to recommend non-line of sight hardware: RadioLabs and GNS Wireless. Thanks again, Kingsley On 07/12/2021 14:44, Nigel Vander Houwen wrote:
Kingsley, and others,
Since it was brought up, I’ll add a quick note here. Trees in the path has been a known hiccup that we’ve hoped for a magic resolution to, but one has not been forthcoming. We did some testing with 900MHz radios, but interference there is prevalent, and performance was abysmal. We chose not to purse that thread further.
One could potentially build a relay, but operating on the lower bands means bandwidth restrictions by rules, and by competition for spectrum. You’d be effectively tying 1200/9600 AX.25 to the network. Folks are of course welcome to do so, but in terms of HamWAN itself doing it, that feels to me like reinventing the wheel, and I believe that gets too in the weeds away from our core mission of building and supporting the high speed backbone and access.
So, trees and such remains on our minds, but currently without any good solutions that are performant, and align with HamWAN’s goals.
Thanks, Nigel [...] -- Time is the fire in which we all burn.