[chbot] Long distance data link, advice from the guru's please

[Helmut Walle]

If "Gondola" is the restaurant on Mt Cavendish, then that's equivalent 
to a 400 m mast...

On 10/05/14 21:25, Mark Beckett wrote:
> My wifi is 32km link to the Gondala, and uses a gridpack antenna and 
> licenced 600mW AP unit.
>
> Even with good antennas at both ends, I doubt you could extend it to 
> 110km.
>
>
> Problem with most of these is that its "line of sight", so unless you 
> can put something in-between you're stuck.
> Might be easier to move the Mainland, or use carrier pidgeons to 
> transport the SD cards.
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Richard Jones wrote:
>> Tait Radio Communications spun off a company called MimoMax that
>> specialises in data links: http://mimomax.com/ This kit is completely
>> licensable and uses diversity to achieve almost unbelievable bandwidth
>> over a narrow band. This kit probably does not achieve 110km, but you
>> could ask them.
>>
>> The best I've managed with Wifi type technology requiring no license
>> is about 4km.
>>
>> I suspect when you discover cheap broadband link that does 110km you
>> will be able to give up your day job :-)
>>
>> Best of luck with the visit.
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Jasper Mackenzie
>> <jasper.mackenzie at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Good day fellow ROboticisers,
>>>  I have the privilage of flying off to visit my gf's family in 
>>> Alaska (you
>>> know, the cringing Meet The Family awkward silences...), and her Dad 
>>> runs a
>>> lodge for people to show off their enormous lenses and fancy new 
>>> gigapixel
>>> cameras and glut out on Bears and stuff etc.
>>>
>>> Anyway, he has bandwidth issues, all these fancy photographers want to
>>> upload photos etc etc and he has one sattelite link limited to 4gb 
>>> per week.
>>> So I was thinking that maybe they could do a VHF (or similar) link 
>>> to the
>>> mainland which is 110km away across the sea. I have found a russian 
>>> company
>>> that had an interesting solution, but all seemed to need towers ~90m 
>>> tall
>>> which would be a massive hazard as small planes are what these 
>>> outlanders
>>> use to get around.
>>>
>>> Is there a solution? A data link with usable bandwidth for image 
>>> uploading,
>>> VoIP etc. that could work over 110km without a huge tower, that I 
>>> could get
>>> before june 1st? (Lets deal with licensing later 8)
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> Jasper
>>>
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