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https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

https://www.amazon.com/EZ-Bridge-Lite-EZBR-0214-Outdoor-Wireless-System/dp/B002K683V0

As I live aboard my sailing trimaran, usually anchored or moored away from shore, this is something that I have been trying to figure out for a few years. The best system that I’ve found so far is made by Mikrotik, in Latvia.

https://mikrotik.com/product/RBMetalG-52SHPacn

This unit has a high gain omnidirectional antenna so that it doesn’t have to be aimed, (essential on a boat that swings on anchor). The range is about five miles over water, depending on the strength of the other station.

Phoenix Contact has decades of supplying industrial communications systems where a high value is placed on reliability, ease of diagnosis and repair, where the failure of a system often liquidates the initial cost of such a system several times over.

if your system can tolerate upsets, then I would go with the lowest cost item as posted earlier, and find out how it performs. It might be worthwhile to investigate the cost of a higher end system, so you know the bounds of your capital investment.

here is a link with some design considerations...

https://www.phoenixcontact.com/assets/downloads_ed/global/web_dwl_promotion/1030776_EN_HQ_RemoteControlIndustry_LoRes.pdf​_

Thanks everyone for the input, I’ll post results at a later time