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Re:New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web by oskapt on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @06:52PM (#20630470)
This isn’t APRS or amateur radio at all. The article doesn’t call out the band info, but if this is running over 2.4 or 5 GHz, it’s unlicensed spectrum and available for use by anyone.

If they were running over licensed spectrum, the FCC would have shut them down in the US.

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Re:New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web by myself248 on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @09:15PM (#20631204)
Hams can run high power and high gain antennae with regular wifi gear, they call it HSMM. It doesn't sound like the mesh folks are doing that either, and even if they were, might it fall under part 15.23?
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