An application that is useful and worthhile (and allowed everywhere, I guess), besides emergency situations when everything is allowed, is environment monitoring. Collecting data that are made publicly available for anyone to use. Important but not that much data. Upstream connections from remotely located sensor networks.
Bjorn/SA0BXI
On 07/08/2013 09:40 PM, Michael E. Fox - N6MEF wrote:
(Please trim inclusions from previous messages) _______________________________________________ Right. But if I use ham frequencies, I still have problem #1 that I mentioned, which is that I can't freely communicate with anyone other than a local ham who has also installed the same custom stuff. And that population is very, VERY small. See: Part 97.109(e) Part 97.115 Part 97.219 So that rules out pretty much all inbound traffic over amateur frequencies from all 3rd parties and, to the usual extent, outbound traffic to some 3rd parties -- those in countries where we don't have the right agreements in place. So, what applications can I run over ham frequencies? Can I create an email gateway that automatically forwards inbound email from the Internet over ham frequencies? No. (That's why WL2K has the limitations is has.) Can I put up a web server that forwards inbound traffic from the Internet over ham frequencies? No. ..., etc., etc.