[off-list] Hi, Skip -
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 05:28:31PM -0400, Skip Gundlach wrote: > > Skip and crew, lying between Cabbage and Little Harbour Cays, Berries, > over wifi from Little Whale Cay - gotta love our internet gear > aboard!! If you don't mind, I'm curious - what do you have set up for your WiFi gear? I've got a high-gain external unit, an Alfa AWUS036H (500mW/+27dBm output - http://roklandllc.blogspot.com/2009/01/alfa-awus036h-vs-gsky-500mw-usb-adapter.html) with a 9dB omnidirectional antenna, and I'm hoping that this will let me stay in touch for business and personal purposes. We've just started cruising again (I was in the Caribbean from 1993 to 2000), and I'm very interested in learning about the state of things in regard to connectivity, and I'd realy appreciate having the benefit of your experience. Feel free to get as geeky as you like, by the way - I've been involved with computers since the 70s, and have a fairly good idea of radio issues as well. In a past life (late 1980s), I used to work as an engineer for Hughes Aircraft in their Space Tube division, designing and building millimeter-wave systems, radar frequencies and up, and was an electronics tech for years before that. Fair winds and following seas! -- * Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://LinuxGazette.NET * _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
