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Topic: AR2315 extended range 2300-2500mhz

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There is any firmware version  to extend range under 2400 mhz for hamradio usage?  wifi band 14 channel is full and amateur band near is empty .... ..
thank's  73 de ik6ihg

(Last edited by ik6ihg on 10 May 2007, 21:53)

This is all included in the Atheros HAL and it's not open source (binary)...for this very purpose of operating on illegal bands. Not possible.

You could try looking at openhal, which is an open source rework of the Atheros HAL and is being integrated into MadWifi.  It started life in OpenBSD but has moved over to Linux as well so it should be possible to add it to openwrt.

ok Thank's    13 cm  Amateur band  in region 1 (europe .ecc)   start in 2300Mhz and end  2450mhz , this band for amateur radio is not illegal ... if there is any developer to  contact  atheros to release any info to perform this band for amateur use only ..
73 ik6ihg.

working in amateur band, with 802.11abg signal is probably illegal, because you cant transmit your callsign in any readable form. Also, 802.11abg spectrum is much wider than any other type of modulation used by ham's (SSB, CW, FM, RTTY etc), and I'am not sure, how is regulated 10-40Mhz wide abuse of ham resources.

Anyway, access point at 2312-2450Mhz (madwifi allow 2312-2732MHz), with TX power for example 50W, is interesting. Dont be surprised, when birds start falling from sky above you.  smile

(Last edited by netmaster on 23 May 2007, 18:59)

netmaster wrote:

you cant transmit your callsign in any readable form

Couldn't you just make it your SSID?

netmaster wrote:

Dont be surprised, when birds start falling from sky above you.  smile

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Couldn't you just make it your SSID?

hmm, this is not a bad idea at all...
Many 3rd party firmwares support extended frequency ranges already and because packet radio on lower bands is obsolet and mostly dead anyway, then it will make cheap and usable alternative for ham's.

ok thank's , yes amateur call is located in SSID beacon  and in italy experiment in wifi band for hamradio (20mhz large) is legal but very too much signal in wifi band is full !!  .. now i have seen in dd-wrt firmware a keys for extendend range features  ..

use madwifi and openhal by openwrt dd-wrt and maksat
set in wireless config option regdomain 0x49 and reboot
now you will get something like this

root@AP83:/# iwlist ath0 freq
ath0      52 channels in total; available frequencies :
          Channel 237 : 2.312 GHz
          Channel 238 : 2.317 GHz
          Channel 239 : 2.322 GHz
          Channel 240 : 2.327 GHz
          Channel 241 : 2.332 GHz
          Channel 242 : 2.337 GHz
          Channel 243 : 2.342 GHz
          Channel 244 : 2.347 GHz
          Channel 245 : 2.352 GHz
          Channel 246 : 2.357 GHz
          Channel 247 : 2.362 GHz
          Channel 248 : 2.367 GHz
          Channel 249 : 2.372 GHz
          Channel 01 : 2.412 GHz
          Channel 02 : 2.417 GHz
          Channel 03 : 2.422 GHz
          Channel 04 : 2.427 GHz
          Channel 05 : 2.432 GHz
          Channel 06 : 2.437 GHz
          Channel 07 : 2.442 GHz
          Channel 08 : 2.447 GHz
          Channel 09 : 2.452 GHz
          Channel 10 : 2.457 GHz
          Channel 11 : 2.462 GHz
          Channel 12 : 2.467 GHz
          Channel 13 : 2.472 GHz

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