Efika 5200B Project
Search & Rescue Portable Radio (Updated 15-Aug-2006)in category Hardware
proposed by spyke555 on 29th June 2006 (accepted on 7th September 2006)
Project Update - Wireless card
posted by spyke555 on 24th October 2006
Some concerns were raised with the use of 2.4 GHz signals in wilderness type environments. Foliage and the lack of direct line of sight are all very real concerns that this project must overcome.
Ubiquity has a Super Range 9 mini-PCI card that should help to resolve many of these issues. The card operates at 900MHz and provides 700mW of output power. These two elements combined should provide a much more efficient communications link between nodes.
Work continues...