"Charles Brabham" wrote in message
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"Hank Oredson" wrote in message
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We have done some test links, to verify path issues.
Then we did the cost analysis.
About $2k per endpoint for the paths we need to cover.
So we have some short links, but any interesting links require
investment from a group of hams instead of a single ham.
That has not happened.

The problem is cost.

By interesting, I assume you are talking about links that can be located a
reasonable distance apart.

Five to fifty miles.
All costs included, things like towers, etc. as well as the dishes and
amplifiers.

I've been curious about this for quite a while. I use ethernet cable at
home so I have no experience with WIFI equipment.

It can be very easy to set up, played with it here, but ordinary
WiFi won't even get from one end my house to the other. So
there are a few hundred feet of CAT5 instead :-)

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... Hank

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