[CQ] Basic questions from a newbie

[Mark Cohen]

You don't need a license for wifi unless you want to use higher power and accept the limitations. 

That being said getting a license is trivial. 

Mark



On May 18, 2011, at 9:21 PM, Daniel González Gasull <gasull at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm up to collaborate, but can I without a ham radio license?
> 
> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Rubin Abdi <rubin at starset.net> wrote:
>> Hi Daniel, what's your plan?
>> 
>> I live up in the Western Addition/NOPA area and have had plans to start
>> some sort of wifi network between houses up here and possibly down back
>> into the Mission.
>> 
>> I can see some Monkeybrains APs from my roof, but sadly no response from
>> them regarding access to their network and how much.
>> 
>> Andy Isaacson wrote, On 20110516 122557:
>>> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:07:50PM -0700, Daniel González Gasull wrote:
>>>> But I need a goal; someone or something to connect to.  Otherwise it's
>>>> too lonely.
>>>> 
>>>> Are there some existing mesh networks here in San Francisco?  In The
>>>> Mission-Dolores area?
>>> 
>>> If you have line of sight to the Noisebridge roof, we have room for
>>> another mast on the existing antenna mount.  There may even be a spare
>>> mast already mounted, but I'm not sure if the project it was installed
>>> for is still planning to use it.
>>> 
>>> The Noisebridge roof is not set up for general access (smoking,
>>> gardening, etc) due to the limited access and the ease of damaging the
>>> roof membrane with foot traffic, but we do have specific permission from
>>> the landlords to access it for antenna installation so long as we are
>>> very careful to avoid damaging its water integrity.
>>> 
>>> Rubin has been discussing a shared wireless mesh network.  CCing him.
>>> 
>>> Monkeybrains is installing quite a lot of wifi capacity for their
>>> Mission / Bernal / Soma network.  They're commercial, but they are
>>> definitely good guys.
>>> 
>>> -andy
>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Rubin Abdi
>> rubin at starset.net
>> 
>> 
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> Daniel González Gasull
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