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.
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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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?
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?
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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Credit Card Sized? by icekillis · 2004-09-14 08:53 · Score: 4, Funny

Do you mean PCMCIA-sized?
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 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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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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"d'Oh!" ~Homer
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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Great ideas often receive violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein