11 Oct
2006
11 Oct
'06
3:28 p.m.
Dear friends,
MCM Electronics currently has a sale on a WiFi base station for $18.95. See:
http://www.mcminone.com/product.asp?catalog%5Fname=MCMProducts&product%5...
This is a very basic Linksys unit. But, at this price, it might make sense to buy a few, put them in your house as close to your neighbors as possible, and set them all to channel 1 (which overlaps the ham band at 2.4 GHz.) This may help encourage your neighbors to use other channels. When you want to operate on S-band, just turn them off.
They may also be useful if you want to set up a very basic WIFi network and you don't care about any extra features.
73, Tony AA2TX