MAIPN

MAIPN is part of a national movement within the Amateur Radio community to employ modern wireless technology in our local and regional Amateur Radio networks. We are taking advantage of a new class of low-cost digital microwave radios that have recently appeared in the marketplace. This equipment was originally intended to be used by commercial providers to deliver wireless internet service to customers who are underserved by existing cable and fiber optic networks. However, we have found that this equipment is ideally suited to increase the capabilities of our Amateur Radio networks... Last but not least, MAIPN employs sector antennas. Figure 5 shows a sector antenna that uses the same radio as the dish shown in Figure 4. Unlike a dish, which concentrates the radio signal into a very narrow beam, a sector antenna spreads the signal out over a wider area - anywhere from 45 to 120 degrees beamwidth, depending on the model selected... In order to understand the architecture of the..

Also known as: MAIPN, Inc.