[amsat-bb] Re: Is Wi-Fi Headed toward an Early Grave?

Could I perhaps just highlight an unwanted side effect of all the discussion regarding Wi-Fi and its impact on "our" frequencies.

Any newcomer reading all the gloom and despondency may well reach the conclusion that 2.4GHz is not worthy of their investment. Surely if we are not careful this becomes self defeating as potential new users shy away and we end up with another under utilised band.

The recent scheduling of AO-51 with downlink on 2.4GHz has been interesting. I live in a highly populated urban area with a number of locally active home and commercial Wi-Fi's however using just a K5GNA down converter and corner reflector (hand held) huge interference free signals are easily received.

David G8OQW