Ä [125] Fidonet: PACKET (1:352/111) ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ PACKET Ä Msg : 2 of 2 From : Joel Lambert 1:141/455 Fri 24 Sep 93 13:55 To : Robert Van.Zant Subj : Full Duplex radio-modem ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ Robert Van.Zant wrote in a message to Joel Lambert: RVZ> Hi Joel, RVZ> You posted this message some time ago, hope you're RVZ> still around. JL> and yes it has been done, as a matter of fact, an aquantince JL> of mine has gone one step furthrue, he aquired a commercial JL> frequency, has a full duplex 14K4 modem at each end and JL> sends internet traffic back and forth.................. RVZ> I hope to do much the same thing in the near future, RVZ> only problem being that I don't have a clue where to begin. RVZ> With the paperwork that is. Wonder if you (or your friend) RVZ> could provide some information on how to go about the RVZ> process of buying a RVZ> commercial license? RVZ> Thanks in advance, Bob I'm always around ok only thing I can suggest is to drop down to your local commercial radio dealer or repair shop, or look in the local yellow pages for a sales office, and then aproach them,,, this is basically what I did, I droped by the local radio repair shop in the next town, told them I wanted to run DATA over commercial frequencies, they inturn did the research as to what's available, how crowed they were in my area, and what equipment was available and the cost of equipment, and had me select lowband, vhf, uhf, ect... I selected uhf as I already had the radio's, then we selected a frequency and filled out the application, and handed them a check for 135$ which covered a 3 year period a few months later I was issued a set of call signs... also you may consider, droping by your local ham shop, the one I frequente also does commercial sales/service, but is about 1,5 hours away, but he also stated he would do the same.. I selected a local guy to help me as these guys also take care of the commercial equipment for the local AM/FM radio station, and are also HAM's themselves... But they would of done it regardless of weather I knew them or not... Anyways that I think would be a start... I'd suggest that you try to contact a local radio shop , at least to where the site will be, as they would probally\ be able to tell you what kind of interference you may expect, intermod ect, adjicent channel crud and all that, and also what the loading of the channel currently is! I share my data channel with other's, I beleive 3 others, maybe only 2 but we don't seem to bother each other... I sometimes get a data hit because we both key up at the same time, but it recovers just fine and have NOT lost any data and/or speed... hope this helps, let me know how you make out! TTYL regards Joel --- timEd-B9 * Origin: Six megs, two monitors, and an attitude (1:141/455)