[Fsf-friends] Fwd: [fredpook@gmail.com: electronics expert volunteer needed]

[Nagarjuna G.]

Fred is looking for a hardware hacker to fix some problem for a free
wireless infrastructure developement, any one can find a solution?
Write to fred if you need further information, with a cc to me. 

Nagarjuna

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> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:54:33 +0200
> From: Fred Pook <fredpook at gmail.com>
> Subject: electronics expert volunteer needed
> To: Arun Mehta <arunlists at softhome.net>, nagarjun at gnowledge.org
> 
> Hi Arun and Nagarjuna,
> How are you today?
> Since we are allowed to use 1 Watt RF output on the 2.4 Ghz frequency in
> India. And most Wi-Fi consumer products that we are using only output about
> 80mW, I went on a search for a low-cost RF amplifier. I found:
> http://www.fairchildsemi.com/news/2004/0407/rmpa2455.html
> chosen by broadcom (the producer of the chipset used in WRT54G and Asus) as
> the basis of an 2.4Ghz amplifier. So being Dutch and bold I just went on an
> ordered 10 of them here:
> http://www.digikey.com/scripts/dksearch/dksus.dll?KeywordSearch?Keywords=RMPA2455%20fairchild&site=us
> to my surprise they arrived with no problem.
>  Now this IC is very small 3 X 3mm with 16 tiny surface mounting contacts
> and it needs some supporting capacitors etc all describe in the datasheet
> here:
> http://www.fairchildsemi.com/ds/RM/RMPA2455.pdf
>  Do you know any electronics hackers in India who can put this together for
> us? And how to get these tiny little IC's to him?
>  To have some extra RF output will make our wireless life a lot easier since
> we don't have to worry to much about cable and plug loss and it can keep the
> design of the antenna much smaller and lower-cost. Now higher output doesn't
> solve every problem on long range Wi-Fi connections (fresnel zone clearance
> is the big one) but it did wonders for the Djursland project after they got
> 1Watt 802.11a equipment.
>  OK, so much for now,
> hope to see you soon,
> Fred

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