Hi Patrick. Yes I have briefly considered this in the past.
My preferred approach would be to use the SSID field (which IIRC can be up 31 or 32
characters long ? but should be long enough for a basic Cq and contest exchange ?) to
send short messages that could be seen by everyone on the "channel" who was
within range.
Intuitively this seems better to me than a connection oriented approach, if the
goal is to make typical contest style Qso's and solicit random contacts.
I've never tried this so there may well be a flaw with this approach, but I suspect if one were to use access points
that had an easy to use User interface that allowed for quick changes to the SSID message, and that also provided for a
"client mode" that allowed you to see SSID broadcasts from other access points this approach might "kind
of sort of" work. Transitioning between "TX" and "RX" would likely be a bit awkward.
All that being said at this point I'd just as soon put my energy into getting
more local hams to use 146.52 and 446.0 FM during contests, but if anyone in or
around CN89 wants to try this out some day let me know.
I suspect the practical range for random contacts would likely be fairly short.
73
Mark S
VE7AFZ
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On Apr 28, 2016, at 10:25 AM, Patrick Thomas <p-thomas@mindspring.com> wrote:
For us poor people who can't afford lots of transverters (and aren't quite
smart enough to tear down satellite gear from Ebay), I have been thinking of
repurposing a wireless access point for raw
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-speed_multimedia_radio for 13cm and maybe
even 5cm if I can find the gear to do it.
Has anyone found any success with this in the past? And what might a QSO
consist of? Leave DHCP on and ping the other station with a packet sniffer
turned on? Some kind of firmware-based application for the router if one
doesn't already exist?
Opportunities abound. :)
But if time is money, maybe the transverters would be a better way to go. :)
Just curious if anyone has considered this. The web was not very useful for
discovering prior work.
- Patrick / KB8DGC
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