What is the maximum distance without a Ham Licence?
Initially an isolated node has a maximum service radius of no more than say 500 metres or a third of a mile. Any public spirited enthusiast(s) can however provide a dedicated public node or even a chain of unattended nodes which relay “through traffic” for other distant users, thereby extending his/her range to that of all other connected nodes…. With numerous Internet Gateways, widespead public co-operation and participation there need be NO THEORETICAL LIMIT to distances covered. (The American equivalent of the RSGB is appropriately called the Amateur Radio Relay League) There are several innovations and technical advances which allow ordinary licence exempt users to magnify their operating range much further than the few hundred metres maximum originally envisaged by the IEEE 802.11 Standards Committee:- 1) While in the U.K. it is now a criminal offence to exceed the permitted EIRP… Asymmetrical working, that is using only the range advantage of a high gain antenna in the receiv
