Dillon Pyron wrote:

Thus spake nitespark :



Bob Bob wrote:

Its all intriguing anyway! Not that I have a large enough body of water
nearby to try experimenting with it though.



If you are in East Texas, depending on where, you are getting pounded by
"Rita". Hope all goes well. Perhaps we can hook up on 20meter?


I have family in Tyler. It was a "non event" there, according to my
bro. Further east it turned to ****. Imagine being evacuated from NO
to Houston to Texarkana. Talk about being **** upon.


Yeah I know. Some news broadcast had someone on that had been evacuated
from 4 different shelters.

Sort of like it was here with Isabelle last year (or year before). She
ripped up the coast of NC and VA. 20-25 miles east of here there were
downed trees and it got worse the further east you went. Around here it
got a little breezy and that was about it. The barometric pressure
dropped substantially at my house.

I had plans to dive Va. Beach that weekend, but it had torn up some much
stuff and they were evacuating people, no since in going down there.
Lost the money I had on my hotel reservations but there were LOTS of
people in Virginia Beach who lost a LOT more than that.

"Bob Bob" wrote in message..
Also this

http://www.grantsystems.com/pdf/beeman.pdf

Looks like a system at 150Mhz.

Maybe use a 2M txcvr, a shortened antenna and a packet TNC! Lots of
these can be bought second hand very cheaply.

I assume you are licensed to use amateur equipment?

Hi,

(This is reply to both of your messages, along with a reply to others in
this thread as well.)

Apologies for not getting back to this thread until now. I had something
come up that kept me busy all weekend, and it looks like it will continue to
do so until early next week. :/

I did read all the replies though and all were very helpful. That link you
gave for the PDF will be very helpful as well. I've only had time to
briefly skim over it, but look forward to reading it in detail as I'm not
familiar with propagation through water at all.

The laser idea is pretty cool. (Wonder if IR would work at all, have to
look that up later.) From googling, found some other folks that put
together some homebrew robotic projects and had various levels of success
using DTMF. They were using generators/decoders just for simple commands,
but got an idea in my head brewing on how to turn sequences into characters
(with even some rudimentary CRC), and not requiring any computer coding at
all.

As for a license, unfornutely I don't have one (yet). I do have experience
with commercial and military communications though (mainly SHF, tactical and
fixed SATCOM, LOS/Troposcatter microwave, etc) on both the radio side
(converters, synths, amps, filters, antennas, ect) and data side (muxes,
modems, ect). Planning, when time avails, to go to a local ham radio
meeting and getting involved with the hobby.

Cheers!
-Eric

Ahh Barry!

Did you not understand the language in use?

I have a funny I'll send you some day about all the kinds of OT stuff
you find on NG's...

Cheers Bob (In W5 where they all use their feet)

Barry OGrady wrote:

Where would you find 20 meters to hook together?