[CQ] Basic questions from a newbie

Daniel González Gasull gasull at gmail.com
Thu May 19 04:43:01 UTC 2011


So, we are talking now about a wifi network where HSMM has no place, right?

My understanding from Jof's message is that I need to have a ham radio
license if the data is sent over HSMM at some point.

2011/5/18 Mark Cohen <markc at binaryfaith.com>:
> 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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