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Fri, 10/03/2025 - 16:16
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ke5eft
HaLow hardware
Hello, 

I'm in the process of designing and producing a HaLow product for the open market as there are very few available. 

I am wondering if there is much interest in working together for AREDN support? I would love to have a firmware well supported for the amateur radio community. 

Also since ham hardware does not need FCC certification it would be possible to have an amplifier integrated for this community. 

Thanks and 73
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Sat, 10/04/2025 - 15:04
w6bi
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HaLow and AREDN
Mark, in order to be supported by AREDN, a product first needs to be supported by OpenWrt.  That being said, a higher-powered HaLow device would be very desirable.

73

Orv W6BI
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Mon, 10/06/2025 - 18:34
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ke5eft
Understood, OpenWRT shouldn't
Understood, OpenWRT shouldn't be an issue at all.
For power, what would be useful for this? I'd like to start designing the front end so I can send everything off together to be made. 

Thanks
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Wed, 10/08/2025 - 13:27
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w6bi
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HaLow power
The most popular device currently supported, the ALFA Network Tube-AHM. puts out 200 mW.  I'd say at least 10 dB above that, 13 dB above would be better.

Orv W6BI
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Tue, 10/21/2025 - 17:21
VA3IAN
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Very interested myself.
Very interested myself.

Something 33cm band, at 47dBM would be very appealing.  Wondering if the distribution amplifiers I see for LoRa would work.
Trying to figure out wireless connections over very long distances (50-100km).
 
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Thu, 10/23/2025 - 15:38
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w6bi
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900 MHz amplifiers
There are a number of 900 MHz bidirectional amplifiers out there.  They range from pricey (IMO) to really ridiculous.   A google search will yield some.

Orv W6BI
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Sun, 01/04/2026 - 22:04
VE7JFZ
AFAIK you are limited to 30
AFAIK you are limited to 30 dbm with Halow. Halow took a long time in approvals because many were worried that people were going to come along and transmit at high power and wide bandwidth. One thing that HAMs need to remember is the ISM band bandwidth is used by many other hobbyists/ other people.  A high powered device that is omnidirectional is not desirable. There is no sense in transmitting for 10s of miles around if you dont need to, your RF becomes someone else's noise. If you have a specific need for high gain then use a Yagi and point to point links.
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