One particular farmer I dealt with had a similar experience. He had a 900 Mhz panel on his machine shed from a competitor (actually my upstream) They sold the boxes to this fellow with no regard to what it was going to do to existing 900 MHz gear.
Well he called me and told me his Internet connection was just going so slow it might as well be dialup. When I went to check it out, the first thing I saw was the GPS unit on his tractor. I asked him if it was new. It was last spring. He told me he had a newfangled device that was guiding him in the fields. I just smiled and told him he was killing his own connection. The resolve was to do away with the 900 and put a 5.8 panel on his machine shed. I then built a 2.4 private network for them using half channel gear. His neighbor across the street is a stock broker and absolutely needed high speed. He too is on this network. So, from a business standpoint, we turned an engineering problem into an opportunity. They were more than happy to pay for the engineering and equipment. It works great for them and solved a self induced problem. I'm not sure the guys building the GPS networks are even aware of how much spectrum they use, or the problems it is causing existing spectrum users. But, such are the perils of part 15 spectrum. Mike At 09:57 PM 10/16/2009, you wrote: >Well, our conglomerate of dealers isn't too ad to work with, but in our area >they are running right at 4 watts EIRP. I got them to agrre to turn them off >after harvest. They just came in and putt htis stuff up, told the farmer it >wouldn't hurt us at all. I think the biggest issue is that we are on the >same structure, so our yagis ar pointed right at their antenna too. they are >running vertical here, and we run horizontal, but it is still enough to take >us into 1X. they claim they cannot program the hop frequencies. they also >did say that JD is coming out with a new radio this spring and they have >some big incentives to upgrade. the dealer didn't know what frequency it >was, but he said he had to register each site with the FCC. could be >whitespace i suppose, but i didn't think that anything was ready there yet, >otherwise 3650 comes to mind. > >The machinery only needs to receive 1 of 10 transmissions, so they can deal >with a lot. > > > > >On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:46 AM, Robert West ><robert.w...@just-micro.com>wrote: > > > I'm installing an AP soon on a grain leg that has one of those on it. What > > type of problems have you seen with them? 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