Hi Crew,
I'm looking to hear success cases with using New Packet Radios (NRP).
Do you have good RF links using NRPs?
There's several flavors available now, including 2m, 70cm, and 23cm.
1) interested in anyone's experience with the Localino NPR for 23 cm.... how much, line-of-site does it require?
2) I have 70 cm units on the way. We have extensive 70 cm packet network, seems NPR on 70 cm would likely succeed. Your experience?
Here in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, terrain is flat with no mountains or high points (unless you have a personal connection with someone who can give you a spot on a high commercial building or tower.) And there's lots of tall trees to gobble up your signal. Thus, not having luck with devices that require true line of site.
TNX Carl KO4SSA
I'm looking to hear success cases with using New Packet Radios (NRP).
Do you have good RF links using NRPs?
There's several flavors available now, including 2m, 70cm, and 23cm.
1) interested in anyone's experience with the Localino NPR for 23 cm.... how much, line-of-site does it require?
2) I have 70 cm units on the way. We have extensive 70 cm packet network, seems NPR on 70 cm would likely succeed. Your experience?
Here in Norfolk and Virginia Beach, terrain is flat with no mountains or high points (unless you have a personal connection with someone who can give you a spot on a high commercial building or tower.) And there's lots of tall trees to gobble up your signal. Thus, not having luck with devices that require true line of site.
TNX Carl KO4SSA
I do not understand why this post is here in an AREDN forum.
There are no AREDN capable devices in 2m, nor 70cm, nor 23cm bands.
73, Chuck
Several of us have AREDN nodes, but only connected via internet tunnels. NRP with 7 watts on 70 cm can provide the TCPIP link between nodes, where the higher frequencies/lower power cannot.
I have it working well with the 500mW units across my property.
Carl
Please express in meters, the distance 'across my property'.
3s, Chuck
Andre brought up NPR radios some 7 years ago as an addition to his AREDN network.
Richard ko0ooo
It would be interesting to try them in the situation like you have specified, I think it is call X-Links in AREDN
As i understand it as long as the link can talk IP it should work.
Of course the NPR link will be much lower bandwidth than an IP link or an AREDN RF link but depending on what you need to carry over it.
Mark
EI4FNB