Hello, last night I successfully used the free residential WiFi network provided by MetroFi [http://www.metrofi.com] at our Field Day site in Raynor Park. I was sitting on one of those low concrete 3'x3' benchens right were we had set up the VHF station under the canopy last year. I used my IBM Thinkpad R51 with its built-in wirless (Atheros chipset, in-frame antenna). I could connect at 2 of 5 bars of signal strength, which is called 'Low', but it worked well enough for web browsing, e-mail, ssh shell login and I even tried a VoIP Skype phone call. Next time I will try with a high-power WiFi card and/or and external antenna. If you want to bring your 802.11b/g wireless laptop, please check with the HF operators right after you start using it: in my experience, some of the wireless attachements, some TFT laptop screens and some USB dongles/mice/widgets generate significant amounts of RFI noise inside the ham bands. 73, andreas de K6OTT +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SARES members mailing list: <sares-list@sunnyvaleares.org> For help with (un)subscription send e-mail to <majordomo@athm.net>Received on Wed Jun 7 16:30:14 2006
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