[olug] aircraft data via amateur bands

[Charles Bird]

making a hole is no problem the plane is wood and fabric. 
I will have her going sometime in late spring. I have to 
buy new tires, annual inspect. etc.  Sounds like a pretty 
cool thing. I'll start scratching for parts. 
 
 
----- Original Message ----- 
From: neal rauhauser <neal at lists.rauhauser.net> 
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:15:41 +0000 
To: Omaha Linux User Group <olug at olug.org> 
Subject: [olug] aircraft data via amateur bands 
 
>  
>   Charles wrote at length about his aircraft and need 
for weather data - 
> sounds like he wants a Stratocheetah without paying for 
electronics that 
> cost more than the plane. 
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>   This is an interesting and not too expensive project. 
There are a 
> couple of methods for doing this. 
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>   You'll need some sort of laptop or palmtop with an 
802.11b card, an 
> RFLinx 2.4 GHz to 900MHz downconverter, and a way to 
mount an external 
> antenna that will be roughly a foot long - so if you're 
willing to bore 
> a small hole in your plane and install a bulkhead 
connector that is one 
> method. 
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>  
>   The other method would be using something like a 
Sierra 550 PCMCIA 
> wireless card and get the antenna outside the aircraft - 
as long as 
> you're near (30 miles) to a PCS tower, you should be 
able to have an 
> ISDN speed data feed. 
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>  
>   Sounds interesting ... when do we start?  :-) 
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