I presume the eventual aim must be world-wide sales to achieve economies of scale. Quite frankly 10 km is a joke as you probably wouldn't even get that hilltop-to-hilltop. In a real-world environment a max range of 1 km would be more likely.
As I read the latest Ofcom Licence Excemption document it looks like these devices may be limited to 100 mW in the UK, see
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/exemption/exemption.pdf
73 Trevor M5AKA
--- Roger Kolakowski rogerkola@aol.com wrote:
I googled the product with the "50" at the end of the part number and several sites came up with "claimed" ranges between 5 and 10 kilometers. Because the product seems only to be available in the UK I didn't convert it to miles but I think it's 3-6 of them.
Roger WA1KAT
----- Original Message ----- From: "Trevor" m5aka@yahoo.co.uk To: "AMSAT BB" amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 4:03 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Re: More Clutter on 2.4 GHz
--- Roger Kolakowski rogerkola@aol.com wrote:
And these radios have a range of 5 to 10 kilometers while you get to
hold
them up against your head while transmitting!
I didn't see any range figures on the website, I'd have though a max range
of 1
km (0.6 miles) is more likely.
73 Trevor M5AKA
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