>> Upshot is: you'll probably need high power at both ends, large antennas >> in the middle, in order to cover even a fairly short distance. > > Can someone prove or disprove that this actually works and is not some > anomoly from bouncing off the mountain? Passive repeaters might work, but > it just doesn't seem right.
Passive repeaters do work (amongst other things, they are used to fill-in coverage for broadcast tv in some places), but calculating the link budget showed that they wouldn't have worked for Cringely's scenario. Tim Pozar's posts to the list were, as usual, particularly informative :) -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
