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Old 05-26-2004   #3 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by peekitty
One of the hams on this forum can answer this more authoritatively than me, but I believe if the frequency range of the amp is correct, it will work with 802.11 products. If it's more than an amp, ie: a radio with its own protocol, you'll have some serious tweaking to do.
Generally, that's true.

TAL had two models of radios that I know about: "L-Band" and "S-Band" The L-Band were 900MHz and the S-Band were 2.4GHz. TAL's S-Band equipment used different channels than 802.11 or 802.11b and is not compatible.

Amplifiers generally don't care about protocols. They only requirements are the frequency range (2.4GHz) and is the bandwidth wide enough to cover the channels being used. Because of the channel spacing that TAL used, the amps may not be wide enough to work properly to use 802.11 or 802.11b/g.

A Google search found this site, which has some of their old mauals in PDF format:
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ft...et/tal20.docs/
http://ftp.iasi.roedu.net/mirrors/ft...et/tal21.docs/
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