I am not. Everything above 30 MHz or so is line of sight in the consumer products sense of the word. We can talk about niche modes like tropospheric ducting or super high power troposcatter, but ducting is irregular and unpredictable and tropo scatter requires many kilowatts of power.
Pretty much everything from VHF and up (all of wifi) is line of sight only. Not just the mm-wave stuff. Cell phone networks only work because the telcos pay big money to get their transceivers power/data up on towers high above the terrain.
Store and forward meshes assume the nodes will eventually see each other but down at 5ft above the ground they often won't.
Pretty much everything from VHF and up (all of wifi) is line of sight only. Not just the mm-wave stuff. Cell phone networks only work because the telcos pay big money to get their transceivers power/data up on towers high above the terrain.
Store and forward meshes assume the nodes will eventually see each other but down at 5ft above the ground they often won't.