One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles

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One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 14, 2004 @08:47AM from the bits-over-blocks dept.

maxstreampr wrote in to plug their radio modem. It's the size of a credit card, one watt, and can transmit 40 miles line of sight or 3000 feet indoors. Something about using the AT command set to fire off a command 40 miles through the air amuses me.

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Denial of service attack! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-14 08:49 · Score: 5, Funny

+++ATH0 on a cloudy day. With a repeater.
1. Re:Denial of service attack! by Short+Circuit · 2004-09-14 13:10 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Heck yeah...I still participate on a Worldgroup BBS.
  
  And my favorite joke on computer campers?
  
  "ga has just given you 2000 credits. Type =x to accept."
  
  ("ga" is the Teleconference equivalent of IRC's "/me")
  
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first post by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-14 08:50 · Score: 0, Funny

First post ever from a radio modem
Why do we even need the Internet? by Anita+Coney · 2004-09-14 08:50 · Score: 4, Funny

If everyone bought one of these and ran them in peer-to-peer mode, we could all dump our ISPs!

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1. Re:Why do we even need the Internet? by Anita+Coney · 2004-09-14 08:54 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Damn, I knew I should have actually read the article!!!
  
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2. Re:Why do we even need the Internet? by Short+Circuit · 2004-09-14 13:14 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  You find me a 9600 baud acoustic coupler and I'll give you a gmail invite. :)
  
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Re: One-Watt Wireless Radio Modem Reaches 40 Miles by Scoria · 2004-09-14 08:51 · Score: 5, Funny

Additionally, rumor has it that this device will burn a hole in your pocket. (Thank you, I'm here all week.)

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Okay, I'll do it by koreth · 2004-09-14 08:52 · Score: 5, Funny

Someone's going to, so it may as well be me...
"Site" - a location.
"Sight" - something visual.
"Line of sight" - a line along which you can see (i.e., an unobstructed line.)
"Line of site" - evidence that what you've written matters so little to you that it's not worth the effort to proofread. You don't care; why should we?
1. Re:Okay, I'll do it by joranbelar · 2004-09-14 08:54 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  Don't look now, the Slashdot editors actually EDITED something! And they got it right!
2. Re:Okay, I'll do it by Requiem · 2004-09-14 09:38 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  You beat me to it. Keep the flame of the English language burning, my friend.
Calling Long Distance by grunt107 · 2004-09-14 08:52 · Score: 5, Funny

The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is used with a 256-bit key, the highest encryption standard available.

The real question is, did they use Lexar programming techniques?
Wireless... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-14 08:53 · Score: 2, Funny

My Grandma loves all this talk of 'Wireless' again..
Did anyone else read this... by Ignignot · 2004-09-14 08:53 · Score: 5, Funny

Using the AT command to set a fire 40 miles off? Or has it just been too long a day at work? My office has been regularly swept for mines.

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1. Re:Did anyone else read this... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-14 08:57 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  My office has been regularly swept for mines.
  
  Translated: all we do at the office is play minesweeper
Credit Card Sized? by icekillis · 2004-09-14 08:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Do you mean PCMCIA-sized?
Friends of SCO by MikeMacK · 2004-09-14 08:54 · Score: 2, Funny

MaxStream, Inc., 355 South 520 West Suite 180, Lindon, Utah 84042
Lindon, Utah is sure a happening place.
Quick follow-up by joranbelar · 2004-09-14 08:56 · Score: 5, Funny

Apparently, the editors are hedging their bets on this one: I keep hitting reload, and the submission text alternates between "line of sight" to "line of site".
1. Re:Quick follow-up by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-14 10:08 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  By not RTFA, I'm trying to maintain both spellings in a quantum state.
2. Re:Quick follow-up by mikael · 2004-09-14 10:16 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  By replying to this anonymous post, I am aiming along the "line of cite".
  
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Re:What kind of antenna?? by chill · 2004-09-14 08:58 · Score: 5, Funny

What kind of antenna did they use? "High gain" isn't all that descriptive.

A thin, copper one, 40-miles long. :-)

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Re:What kind of antenna?? by ARRRLovin · 2004-09-14 09:00 · Score: 2, Funny

Nice.......UUUULF. :-)

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9600 baud 'em by phyruxus · 2004-09-14 09:00 · Score: 4, Funny

Mordac: I am Mordac, preventer of information services! I deny your request for specifications! In retribution for disturbing me, I sentence you to one month without email!
Dilbert: okay.
Mordac: What?! No engineer gives up email so easily. Assume the position!
Dilbert (at home, to Dogbert): So, he found the modem strapped to my ankle, but he missed my wireless pen modem.

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Wow! by Guano_Jim · 2004-09-14 09:05 · Score: 3, Funny

I'm using one of these right now and it's gr345l;@!@*!bbg

NO CARRIER

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/.ed by TarlCabbot · 2004-09-14 09:08 · Score: 3, Funny

Looks like their web server went under a bridge.
Re:Ad Dot by funkdid · 2004-09-14 09:12 · Score: 3, Funny

I was just thinking that I like slashdot and it's ok if they put a well placed ad here or there if it keeps up the high quality of this site. Maybe they'll be able to make it even better. Maybe they'll start to patent some of the features of slashdot, and trademark some of the slashdot esque things about it. Maybe they'll pick up some closed source companies that make a nice product and then open source them. Maybe they'll become a portal for all types of news, not just "news for nerds". Then perhaps they'll start to consider spinning Slashdot off of OSDN, take it public. Then they'll sell stock in some odd dutch auction, and offer 1 Terabyte of storage in the new "slashmail" beta free e-mail service.....
Seriously all companies (and governments) turn out the same eventually. Just like with google, we'll be sitting around one day commenting "Remember when slashdot was that indie little "news for nerds" site?

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How can you tell if someone is a complete geek? by Omega1045 · 2004-09-14 09:13 · Score: 4, Funny

Q: How can you tell if someone is a complete geek?
A: If they say, "Something about using the AT command set to fire off a command 40 miles through the air amuses me."

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problems by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-14 09:18 · Score: 0, Funny

Let's see, hmmm

1 Watt ... 40 miles
2 Watts ... 80 miles
3 Watts ... 120 miles
4 Watts ... damn you mountains!
1. Re:problems by ajlitt · 2004-09-14 09:35 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  Mr. Anonymous Coward... Let me take this opportunity to introduce you to Mr. Inverse-square Law.
Well, at least... by ph43thon · 2004-09-14 09:35 · Score: 3, Funny

...they didn't use "line of cite"
Re:How much does this cost? by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · 2004-09-14 10:08 · Score: 2, Funny

Are there 999 other slashdottters who'd like to make an order with me?

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