Andre Hansen, K6AH, and his team of open source developers have taken amateur radio mesh networking to a new level with AREDN, that allows commercial low cost WIFI routers and access points to be used to build out local and regional broadband networks in the amateur bands above 2 GHz. Andre and I discuss this technology and its possibilities for the amateur radio community in this QSO Today. Show Notes: http://www.qsotoday.com/podcasts/K6AH Podcast Link: http://traffic.libsyn.com/qsotoday/Episode_238_Andre_Hansen_K6AH_Final.mp3 iTunes Store: http://goo.gl/CvLNmV Stitcher: http://goo.gl/uhf1XZ Picture - Andre is holding two low-cost WIFI transceivers from Mikrotik that can be used to build microwave links tens of miles in length.
Why not? You could install remotely controlled Software Defined Radio receivers around on the network? Especially if the QRN is so high at your QTH, that a remote receiver would be helpful. Maybe build an HF translator - in on 40 meters, out on 80 meters?