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[Michael Czeiszperger <michael AT czeiszperger.org>]

On Sep 3, 2008, at 2:13 PM, Greg Brown wrote:

Can you get an overhead shot using google maps? 

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=112225237146899722362.00045601fa3422239c001&ll=35.94684,-79.318017&spn=0.006262,0.008036&t=h&z=17

That would help in determining if this could be done.  My gut feeling says, yeah, absolutely, this is possible.  I've shot a signal well over a mile using a legal combination of amplification and gain antennas.

My only question is this: do you have any window where you can get a line-of-sight to the general store? 

Nope, the store is at the top of the building, and we're in the basement in the back.

If not things get trickier, but nothing too complicated.  I'd amp the bejeebus on the store side and use a yagi with some decent gain and I'd hook everything up with low-loss LMR-400 cable.  On the school end I'd use decent gain antenna, perhaps a yagi, perhaps a parabolic dish, it depends on the signal strength.  Then you could run WPA2 or IPSEC across the link, depends on what floats your boat.  Run everything over the least congested channel that you can (1, 6 or 11 or 14 if you want to live life on the edge a a law-breaker (I don't suggest it, really)).

Off the top of my head that's where I'd start.

Thanks, I appreciate it.  And the approximate cost for all this stuff?  Do you have any links to the gear you recommend? 

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Michael Czeiszperger

Chapel Hill, NC 

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten." ~G.K. Chesterton 

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