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This is pretty sweet in the height of geek-dom, this team set out to see how far they could shootout a 802.11b signal in the desert. Their site and video show how they wired it to a Linksys AP and defeted the mountain ranges and the curvature of the earth. As a HAM Radio operator myself I find it sweet how they wired it. Pretty intense, yo.

This was accomplished with a 12 foot dish on a mountain on the outside of Las Vegas and their remote station with a 10 foot dish on a mountain to the west of St. George Utah.

The team had spent much of their summer break from University to build and test their equipment. With surplus satellite dishes scrounged from their home area, building a custom trailer for the remote station, assembling all the scaffolding for the base station and testing. The teams talents in welding, mathematics, electronics, ham radio, programming, and Linux were all necessary to break their previous record.