For the Wireless Guys

Sean Heskett afmug at zirkel.us
Wed Aug 16 20:47:45 UTC 2017


2.4GHz is only stopped by a tree because the FCC EIRP limit for point to
multipoint gear is 4 watts or 36dbm.  If you turn the power up high enough
2.4GHz will easily go through trees and other objects.  It's a regulatory
limit, not a physics limit ;-)

-Sean



On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 1:44 PM, Curtis Maurand <cmaurand at gmail.com> wrote:

> The higher the frequency, the more it acts like light.  at that frequency,
> it wouldn't take much to block it.  even 2.4GHz is stopped by a tree.
>
> On Mon, Aug 14, 2017 at 12:54 PM, Dan Hollis <goemon at sasami.anime.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Good for a few meters at best? Terahertz is blocked by air.
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> > On Mon, 14 Aug 2017, Rod Beck wrote:
> >
> > https://phys.org/news/2017-08-transmission-terahertz-multiplexer.html
> >>
> >>
> >> Roderick Beck
> >>
> >> Director of Global Sales
> >>
> >> United Cable Company
> >>
> >> DRG Undersea Consulting
> >>
> >> Affiliate Member
> >>
> >> www.unitedcablecompany.com<http://www.unitedcablecompany.com>
> >>
> >> 85 Király utca, 1077 Budapest
> >>
> >> rod.beck at unitedcablecompany.com
> >>
> >> 36-30-859-5144
> >>
> >>
> >> [1467221477350_image005.png]
> >>
> >>
>
>
> --
> --Curtis
>



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