Hi Damian,
You will have enough cost getting HF Radio working at both ends. I
suggest that your close enough to use 80 meters most of the day. Work on
good antennas and be careful to make sure they are oriented to get max
signal between tham. Get good radios that are very stable frequency wise.
Now if the path is real good, and signals are strong at least some
of the time every day, prepare to buy a packet radio TNC. Check with the
Government and see if you can use 1200 baud packet on 80 meters. This is
not legal in the USA. If you can use 1200 baud then buy 2 TNC's like the
Pacomm Tiny 2 or the MFJ.
Hook them to the radios and then experiment with packet length.
when you get it right you should be able to pass digital data. In concept
every day you call the Ham in town. If signals are good you switch to
packet and pass e-mail both ways.
On Mon, 18 Jan 1999, Damian A Ivereigh wrote:
> Hi Jersey,
>
> This is very interesting, beacuse I have a similar problem that I need
> to solve in Indonesia - we should pool our resources!
>
> We are working on a rain-forest project on the Island of Seram - help
> local people protect their rare and endangored bird species by
> encouraging bird-watching type tourism.
>
> Anyway the village where we are operating is about 150km away from the
> nearest town with phone connections and there is a 3000m mountain in
> the way. I have been working with a local ham radio operator there to
> try and get his setup going (his radio died about a year ago).
>
> What we have decided to do, is have a computer in the nearest town
> running Linux which will dial up the local ISP and upload and download
> any email. Then another computer in the village will, using the radio
> link, contact the one in the town and pick up the email from there.
>
Best wishes
- Karl F. Larsen, 3310 East Street, Las Cruces,NM (505) 524-3303 -
