"Day Brown" wrote in message
s.com...
My point was that the power
supply was designed by engineers who didnt think about where it would
be used.

I very much doubt that -- it's much more likely they simply decided that
saving a little money was worth more than adding a little user convenience.

And if I make this thing cheap enuf, there wont be any *money* in it
for them coming out to get me.

Again, I disagree. If you make it so cheap it really catches on, sooner or
later it *will* be used in an area such that it intereferes with someone with
deep pockets and you'll get sucked into a lawsuit. If you're going to so
flagrantly ignore FCC regulations, you should simply publish *plans* for your
design so that you can't personally be convicted of selling non-type-accepted
equipment... unless you do want to have bars for windows for some time. :-)

Back when we used CB radios to talk to each other, we bitched to the
FCC about jerks in urban areas putting *1000* watts on a CB channel.
Where was the FCC then? No, man, out here, we are off the radar map.

The FCC does still routinely bust retailers for selling CB band linear
amplifiers and rigs that can transmit outside the CB frequencies.

I still think your best bet it to use 2.4GHz WiFi gear linked "house to house"
with cheap dish antennas on towers. Get that amateur radio license and you
can legally run enough power that you'll easily make the distances, and no one
will question why it is you're buying, e.g., 10W 2.4GHz amplifiers. Those
dish antennas are probably going to be a lot cheaper than a bunch of Yagis
anyway...

---Joel