May be different from what? I'm in Toronto, btw ;o) I'll have to read up on the rules and regulations for FRS here tonight... It'd be a neat thing to play with, at the very least. At any rate, I should really try to get my ham license again... Tried about a year ago, aparantly my test was lost in transit... *sigh* -- Sarah >hmm....I'm in Canada, so the rules may be slightly different. >I read them once (not sure if they were the CAN or US or both ones) >and what they distill down to is that you cannot alter the radio >(they all have the same power/antenna gain configuration it seems) >and autopatch (connecting to the phone system) is verboten. > >So if some FRS radio offered headphone/mic jacks, you could inject the >signal you need to get data through and still be legal... >HOWEVER, you'd have to watch the bandwidth of the signal so it doesn't >spill over or quiet adjacent channels. >Also, I don't know if *continuous* use of FRS is acceptable. > >Finally, from using FRS radios, the S/N ratio may not be the most stellar. >So < 9600bps is tops I guess. > >This could be used for short/mid-range links between wearables with >(they do have a range of ~2-3 miles in free-space) >some having faster links to the 'net proper with gatewaying. >Like an impromptu collective at a club or mall or resort, with a few having >CDPD/Ricochet/802.11 links to the outside. > >Eric LaForest, VE3LNX >(who now thinks he'll add a pair of FRS xceivers to his future platform) ------------------------------------------------------------ GET VISIBLE! TechnoDyke.Com -> http://www.technodyke.com -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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