On Wed, Aug 07, 2002 at 12:03:31AM -0500, Bryan Halvorson wrote:

> With 30 mw transmitters and 24 db antennas a 10 mile link only has 
> about 10 db of fade margin. Plus this isn't taking into consideration 
> interference and the higher noise floor that we're going to be seeing 
> as the band gets more crowded. I've heard enough people say that 10
> mile links are doable that I think it should work. I think we'll just
> have to get something up and running and see what the error rate ends up
> being. If it ends up being a problem we can start looking for more
> antenna gain or add amplifiers.

I wouldn't be confortable using 30mw units for this, most likely we'd be
using 100mw or 200mw radios.

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