Ciao Renzo,
Thank you very much for your answer. We were aware of your world record of 304 km in 2007, that's why we wanted to evaluate permanent links of 200-250km. We moved the talk to "44net-fr" mailing-list, and we may attempt a first 200km link between Bastia and south-east of France soon.
During the last century, Corsica was a bridgehead in the Mediterranean sea, with 9k6 packet-radio links to France, Italy (San Remo) and Sardinia. Do you think there could be volunteers in Italy and Sardinia to establish permanent links with Corsica with modern 44net / upcoming "NGN" technologies ?
As said a few posts ago, having such links with precise monitoring and measurements could improve our collective understanding of atmospheric effects and impact on SHF digital links, and could benefit from ARDC grants. I think it would be a nice technical and scientific challenge...
73 de TK1BI
Le 19/09/2021 à 13:10, renzorossi@libero.it a écrit :
Ciao Toussaint, first of all, sorry for being late in my answer. I was involved in the working group who established the record of 304 km during the first experiments in the first months of 2007 (https://www.cisar.it/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38...) and then improved the bandwidth of the original link with the collaboration of a notorious brand in the 2016 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_Wi-Fi#Italy) If you like, please consider both myself as first point of contact for old memories and Gian Leonardo Solazzi IW2NKE as coordinator of nowadays WiFi working group of Italian CISAR association if you have any specific question about our unforgettable and wonderful experience about the WiFi longest ham radio world record.
Ciao from Italy.
IW0SAB Renzo Rossi
Il 09/09/2021 14:41 Toussaint OTTAVI via 44Net 44net@mailman.ampr.org ha scritto:
Hi all,
Some friends from south of France submitted the idea of a 5 GHz link between France and Corsica. The distance is 200-250 km, mostly over the sea. It's far longer than what I could see on HamNetDB, for example. But it's shorter than WiFi world records (some of them attempted more than 10 years ago between Italy and Sardinia). I never attempted links longer than 40km, so I don't have any experience. And we don't have any SHF expert locally...
1/ Do you think a permanent and stable 250 km link over the Mediterranean sea is doable ? Are some of you using such long links in 5 GHz ? If so, could you share your technical experience here ?
2/ Are there any people from Italy on this list ? Are there any volunteers between Genova and Roma to attempt a link with the East coast of Corsica ? If it works, would there be an interest in establishing a permanent link ?
Thank you for your comments,
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