"Internet Repeater Linking Project” (IRLP)

Hello april05,

Try http://www.irlp.net/ and see if it meets your need.

Cheers,

ethobil

A nice site if you are a HAM. A really really wireless world wide internet controlled by individual equipment owners is extremely attractive to me. I myself am amazed that SW equipment manufactures haven't demanded SW licensing be as stringent as the internet, as it operates, which really can accomplish all that you need a license for when done with SW. I don't remember getting a license to go on the internet. There have been a couple of times that I have had a Broadcast License, going back to when I was 12 and actually had to take an FCC Test. -(that was 42 years ago.) I remember it was stressed that if the lights on the antenna went out, you were to shut down and call the FAA. Tallest thing in Florida when I was flying around there was 2800 feet not far from Titisville, Vero Beach, somewhere along that way. I've also heard of a system that runs on the Grid and comes in your house from the regular power wiring riding on the power wires, obviating any need for any other new wires. I'm no expert or Ham, but have imagined such a system as the one of the question. I know that if I was running a Radio manufacturing company I'd be working to make such systems cheaper and more ubiquitous as competitive options to the services I currently pay for. Last time I sat with a Ham that had a modern set, during the day he could receive and transmit to Spain in the middle of the day, with great clarity. What a feeling of security it would be to have a SW connection to your computer for the internet for me. I expect they exist, but I don't have one. Currently I imagine they cost a good deal of money. I once knew a guy named Jerry Marshall who had trained the army of Bhutan at pistol shooting, and sold licensing of pistols to Bodaga (Small Stores) in Manhattan. (He had a business where his people would go to the stores with all the forms, and help them fill them out, so they could have a legal pistol to protect themselves in the store.) Seems like he charged 275.00 for the service. He himself did not sell guns, as far as I know. Possibly with the right system, a similar service industry of licensing for independent communications could be a money maker? Especially if the equipment was in the same price ranges, and better than, now as far as phones and computers for internet participation are concerned. Service and products, would be ideal. The competition is AT&T and the IPhone, of course.