Atheros Chipset Radios are capable of operation between 2312-2732, 4920-6100 MHz. The purpose of this message is to hopefully draw a few talented hams out of the wood work that can make a programming contribution to an the existing Broadband Ham Network firmware project.

You can look at how the ham radio frequency allocations overlap the Part 15 bands here:

http://www.qsl.net/kb9mwr/projects/wireless/allocations.html

The Part 15 overlap where all consumer devices operate is heavily crowded, and thusly the noise floor is high hampering long range links that we as hams would like to establish. There are a couple third party solutions to enable the extended frequency support to be able to shift operations into the ham only portions of the bands. Neither of them presently have native OLSR support in addition to the extended frequency support. It would be highly desirable to see our own ham firmware support the extended frequency support.

HSMM-Mesh / Broadband Hamnet Firmware

In the Fall of 2008, a group of amateurs from the Texas area announced development of their own custom firmware for the WRT-54G to enable HSMM-Mesh networking. This is the first ham specific firmware build. It is also one of the first firmware builds to support OLSR, an ad-hoc wireless mesh routing daemon. Initially this ham firmware build was limited to the Linksys WRT54 series of wireless routers. In February 2014 the development team announced support for Ubiquiti 2.4 GHz devices. In July 2014 support was extended to Ubiquiti 5 GHz devices.

I should clarify that this firmware does not yet support non-part 15 channels, aka, extended channels / custom frequencies. Nor does it yet support half-rate (10 MHz wide), or quarter-rate (5 MHz wide) bandwidth channels to accompany use on ham only spectrum.

If you are knowledgeable with the Linux Kernel programming please consider reaching out to the development team.

http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/download/firmware/

A discussion on the Broadband Hamnet / HSMM-Mesh ham firmware about using channels outside of the Part 15 space:

http://www.broadband-hamnet.org/hsmm-mesh-forums/view-postlist/forum-1113/to...

If we can develop the firmware that enables ham channels, Heikki Hannikainen OH7LZB presented at the 2013 DCC a way to authenticate the person who might like to download it is a ham.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7anDmQQfyu8 Video presentation from the DCC http://authtest.aprs.fi - authentication demo site https://github.com/hessu/ham-cert-web-demo - Apache configuration and PHP scripts