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From: wpns@miki.pictel.com (Willie Smith)
Subject: Re: Looking for low-cost wireless data link
Message-ID: <1993Feb12.194536.6193@miki.pictel.com>
Organization: PictureTel Corporation
References: <C2AyAu.J35@world.std.com> <laird.729477315@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu> <JAK.93Feb12013920@aruba.cs.brown.edu>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1993 19:45:36 GMT
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In article <JAK.93Feb12013920@aruba.cs.brown.edu> jak@cs.brown.edu writes:
>In article <laird.729477315@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@pasture.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
>[Someone wanted low-cost wireless transmission -- who doesn't? :-)]
>>
>>   Hamtronics, Inc.
[...]
>>   Voice: 716-392-9430
>>   1200 and 9600 baud units/modules for a few hundred dollars.
>
>Does anyone have experience with these?

>How much error-correction would be necessary with these cheap versions? 

I've got a set of these and they work well without any error
correction (it's all in the TNCs).  You can set them up so they keep
the link open (you don't have to re-open it if it's lost).

You need a license of some kind to run the radio gear, but ham tickets
are trivially easy to come by for anyone in this newsgroup (the
hardest part is waiting the 12 weeks for the license), and other
experimental or business licenses don't have the business or other
content restrictions of ham tickets.

Willie Smith
wpns@pictel.com
n1jbj@amsat.org

-- 
Willie Smith
wpns@pictel.com
N1JBJ@amsat.org

