If done like Chaska MN, it would be using 1 watt 802.11G transmitters
with 6 dBd vertically polarized antennas. The system is a mesh network
fed from relatively few points. These systems transmit only when
traffic needs to be passed. The density varies from about 8 to 20
transmitters per square mile from what I've been told by the city.

I have heard of no complaints from weak signal 1296 users in the area,
and I am a member of the local VHF/UHF/uwave club.

tom
K0TAR

Bob Miller wrote:

Philadelphia is considering a wireless Internet system that would
blanket the entire city via hundreds of small transmitters.

See
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=stor...es_7&printer=1

Would this interfere with ham radio?

Sounds like a possible nice alternative to BPL :-)

Bob
k5qwg