Hi There,
I was sitting and trying to think what would it take for us to be able to provide the GA community as a whole internet in the air. Admittedly i'm only a software guy, and my hardware skills are limited to arduino and such. I'm just trying to think how hard can it be to develop something where whoever wants can put an antenna on top of their home, and share their wifi connection upwards with passing airplanes for a particular radius. Up to the point where we can seamlessly transition from one antenna to the other.
Something like APRS does its tracking, but hopefully with a larger amount of participants and where all of us can enjoy wifi while we're doing our cross countries.
If anybody has more hardware and radio knowledge about this, please by all means, hit me up. I'd love to collaborate!
Thanks!
I was sitting and trying to think what would it take for us to be able to provide the GA community as a whole internet in the air. Admittedly i'm only a software guy, and my hardware skills are limited to arduino and such. I'm just trying to think how hard can it be to develop something where whoever wants can put an antenna on top of their home, and share their wifi connection upwards with passing airplanes for a particular radius. Up to the point where we can seamlessly transition from one antenna to the other.
Something like APRS does its tracking, but hopefully with a larger amount of participants and where all of us can enjoy wifi while we're doing our cross countries.
If anybody has more hardware and radio knowledge about this, please by all means, hit me up. I'd love to collaborate!
Thanks!